The TEI Consortium created the Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity in memory of Sebastian Rahtz, who contributed significantly to the TEI infrastructure. The award is intended to honour Sebastian’s noteworthy technical and philosophical contributions to the TEI, and to encourage innovation in the TEI community. The Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity is awarded to an individual or team judged to have made a significant contribution to the TEI-C’s mission in particular by means of non-commercial/openly-available projects or initiatives. Many members of the TEI community are engaged in exploring new ways of implementing and expanding the coverage of the TEI encoding system. It is hoped that the Rahtz Prize will not only recognize excellent work already completed, but through its celebration and dissemination of nominated works also encourage new projects and fresh approaches. The recipient(s) of the 2021 award will receive $1,000 USD or equivalent.
The TEI community is encouraged to nominate prospective candidates for the Rahtz Prize. Self-submissions will also be accepted. You do not have to be a member of the TEI-C to make a nomination or submission. The project/work nominated or submitted does not have to be from 2021.
Nominations and self-submissions should only be submitted through this form.
The form will allow both, nominations of other people’s projects and submissions of your own projects. Nominators and submitters will be asked to provide their name and contact details for the record and to ensure they are not robots. These data will not be published or otherwise shared, and will only be used for running the award process.
Nominations are due 31 August 2021 by midnight Hawaii/Aleutian Standard Time (HAST). Nominees will be contacted by the committee and asked to submit their proposal due 30 September 2021. Self-submissions are due 30 September 2021.
The Rahtz Prize will be awarded at the upcoming TEI-C Conference and Members’ Meeting.
For more information about the Rahtz Prize, including the nomination and application process, consult: https://tei-c.org/activities/rahtz-prize-for-tei-ingenuity.
[1] The 2021 Awards Panel is made up of James Cummings (Member of the TEI Board of Directors), Martina Scholger (Chair of the TEI Technical Council) and Toma Tasovac (Co-chair of the DARIAH Working Group Lexical Resources, Winner of the Rahtz Prize 2020).