TEIC
triage profiles/
There are several directories under 'profiles' which seem to be outdated and even might pose a security risk (see #395, #433). This issue is a stub for reviewing all profiles and see what actions can be taken.
Review of directories:
- profiles/acm — last updated by Sebastian Rahtz in 2014.
- profiles/adams — is this still used by the Adams Papers Project? Last updated in 2013.
- profiles/agora — Looks like a project run by Lou Bernard, but I can't find information about it online. Last updated in 2021 by @HelenaSabel — could we have more information about this in the ReadMe file?
- profiles/default — we need this!
- profiles/dhonvalidator — no information in Readme file. @lb42 can you tell us any more about what this is for?
- profiles/dhoxss — something to do with the Oxford DH Summer School. Last changed 2014 by Sebastian Rahtz. Is this still in use for anything?
- profiles/enrich — "EU project on manuscript description" — is this still in use? Last substantive commit by Sebastian Rahtz 2014.
- profiles/iso — "ISO Documentation". Last substantive changes specific to this project in 2014? Is it still in use? Looks like it was sophisticated.
- profiles/jsi — http://nl.ijs.si appears to be a live project. Presumably this profile is still in use.
- profiles/jTEI — in active use.
- profiles/oepack — Last changes specific to this profile in 2014.
- profiles/ota — in active use? Last changes specific to this profile by SR in 2015.
- profiles/otapages — last changes specific to this profile in 2014.
- profiles/oucscourses — almost certainly no longer in use. Last changes 2014. OUCS no longer exists.
- profiles/oulipo — last changes in 2017. Readme says no longer in use. Remove?
- profiles/oxford — Oxford University IT Services. Not clear what it is used for. Last changes 2017.
- profiles/readme — Readme format for TEI releases.
- profiles/saxonce — last updated 2014. Saxonce no longer in Development. Remove?
- profiles/sciencejournal — experimentation with conversion from word. Last worked on in 2015 by SR.
- profiles/simple — last updated 2014. Originally to support TEI Simple project. Still in use? Looks for a folder that does not exist!
- profiles/tcp — last actively worked on in 2014. For "TCP Texts". Is this still being used by https://textcreationpartnership.org/tcp-texts/ ?
- profiles/tei — stet.
- profiles/teikindle — Last updated 2014.
- profiles/transcription — Readme file says "I'm not sure what this is". Last worked on 2014.
@jamescummings Would you like to give any more information about any of the above?
@sydb The profiles/tei readme is unhelpful. Do you know what this is used for?
@lb42 Which of these long-untouched profiles are still in use, to your knowledge?
@sydb The profiles/tei readme is unhelpful. Do you know what this is used for?
Nope.
Council F2F today: MH will create a series of PRs for profiles and base transformations to be removed. Information about each removal will be added to a central README to provide information for anyone who tries to use a removed transformation or profile; this will specify what the last release containing that profile was. Where a transformation has a bin alias, that alias will be repointed to another script which shows a message explaining where the README is.
Prioritized for removal will be first custom profiles for specific defunct projects, followed by transformations and default profiles for formats (such as cocoa) that we have no intention of maintaining, or no expertise to do it. Transformations in active use (such as docx) will of course not be removed, although custom profiles pointing to them may be.