This note in the other topic reminded me that we had this interesting discussion of minutes here. I’ll jump on opportunity to revive it. So how does the minute-taker determine whether a decision has been made? Or, if you don’t have an answer yet, how are you tackling the question?
I’m assuming you have recordings of the meeting and minutes? But are the recordings videorecordings where you can see when the minute taker starts writing?
And what kind of coordinates do you have in mind for pin-pointing the “when”? Time is obviously meaningless here, so maybe turn-type, or sequences of turn-types that predict minuting?
If you ever had a chance to look at this, I’d be curious to hear your opinion, given that it’s quite different from your own work.
And here is another reference that could be interesting for you (if you don’t already know it). It’s a reconstruction of a decision-making process more than 200 years ago, based on meeting records:
Graber, F. (2007). Obvious Decisions: Decision-making among French Ponts-et-Chaussées Engineers around 1800. Social Studies of Science, 37(6), 935–960. doi:10.1177/0306312707078013