Peal Compositions Committee 2005 Annual Report
The committee currently holds no face to face meetings, and communicates primarily by email.
We are pleased that we are past the difficulties we have had and are now back to regularly publishing a page of peal compositions every month in The Ringing World. The backlog of pending compositions has been reduced substantially. While the need to accumulate coherent selections of material to publish together still introduces delays of varying length, we are making good progress at reducing the time between when we receive a submission and when it is published.
Several new print collections have been published over the past twelve months, and are available for purchase from the Publications Committee. They are A Collection of Grandsire Compositions, A Collection of 10 Bell Compositions, and A Collection of 12+ Bell Compositions.
The committee also continues work on two further new print collections. In an effort to ensure that no errors are introduced special software is being written for formatting the new Stedman Caters and Cinques collection, resulting in this proceeding more slowly than had been hoped. Work is also in progress on a collection of handbell compositions, for which much material has been collected.
The on-line collection currently contains nearly 4,000 peal compositions, and continues to be frequently consulted by a wide variety of users. It can be visited through the committee's web page at
http://www.cccbr.org.uk/compositions/collections
or directly by pointing a browser at
http://www.ringing.org/peals
The committee's web page has been moved from a private server to the Council's web space. Work is currently under way to re-implement the on-line collection so it, too, can be moved off the private server. This will ensure that its maintenance can be assumed by others if necessary, in line with the Information and Communication Technology Committee's efforts to ensure the preservation of on-line ringing information.
Richard Allton
Roger Bailey
Paul Flavell
Stuart Hutchieson
Ian McCulloch
Julian Morgan
Don Morrison (Chairman)
Stephen Pettman
Philip Saddleton
