Author: Luis Meneses

TEI Wiki accounts

Posted on by Luis Meneses

We are in the process of restoring access to the Wiki (https://wiki.tei-c.org).
Due to the large amount of legacy spam accounts we need to manually confirm users.

1- Please write an email to webmaster@tei-c.org  if you had an account on the Wiki along with your username.
If you don’t remember your username, a list of users can be found at:
https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers

2- Please do this before July 7.
After we have compiled your responses, we will grant write access to the Wiki on a weekly basis.

3- Keep in mind that accounts that have not been verified by July 7 will be deleted.
If your account gets deleted after the deadline, you can easily create a new one.
Existing content can be attributed to that new account.

Posted on behalf of the TEI-C Infrastructure Group.

TEI-C and TAPAS Elections 2019

Posted on by Luis Meneses

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board, the Technical Council, and the TAPAS Advisory Board.

The following positions are vacant and up for election:

  • 2 on the Board
  • 6 on the Council
  • 1 on the TAPAS Advisory Board

Please submit your nominations to the TEI-C Board Nominating Committee by 15 May 2019: Google form.

The elections will take place via online voting prior to the annual Members’ Meeting and Conference in September 2019.

Process

Self-nominations are welcome and common. TEI-C membership is not a requirement to serve on the Board or Council. All nominees who choose to accept their nomination will be asked to provide a brief statement of interest and biographical paragraph, and give notice that, if elected, they will be willing to serve.

Once nominations are received and registered, the named person will be asked for:

  • formally acceptance the nomination by 5 June
  • a biography and a statement of interest and purpose by 26 June

All nominees are reminded that it is the duty of members of all three bodies to participate actively in the discussion, activities, and meetings of their respective body.

The TEI-C seeks to represent its community and encourages diversity and gender balance in all its constituencies. It provides a welcoming environment for all.

TEI-C Board

The TEI-C Board is the governing body for the TEI Consortium, and is responsible for its strategic and financial oversight. The Board conducts its business by email correspondence, monthly teleconferences, and at its annual meeting, for which travel subsidies are available. More information on the Board, including a list of current members, can be found here.

TEI-C Technical Council

The TEI-C Technical Council oversees the technical development of the TEI Guidelines. Candidates for Council should be reasonably experienced users of the Guidelines, and expertise/interest in specific areas is helpful. Council members also evaluate bug reports and feature requests, and have primary responsibility for editing and updating the Guidelines and its release packages. Prospective candidates should be available for subsidized travel to one or two face-to-face meetings annually, and should be able to commit to ongoing work during the course of the year. More information on the Council, including a list of current members, can be found here.

TAPAS Advisory Board

The TAPAS Advisory Board contributes to the strategic planning of TAPAS, a TEI publishing and repository service, and the elected members represent the needs and perspective of the TEI community. Advisory Board members work via email correspondence and occasional conference calls and may be asked for advice and assistance with grant planning, collaborative alliances with other organizations, and outreach to the TEI community. Elected members serve a term of three years. More information about the TAPAS Advisory Board can be found here.

 

On behalf of the Nominating Committee 2019:

  • Pip Willcox, TEI-C Board member (chair)
  • Hugh Cayless, TEI-C Council member
  • Scott Hamlin, TAPAS Co-Director
  • Luis Meneses, TEI-C Webmaster
  • Gimena del Rio Riande, TEI-C Board member
  • Christiane Fritze, TEI-C Board member

Rahtz Prize – Call for Nominations 2019

Posted on by Luis Meneses

The TEI Consortium has 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 2019 award will receive $1,000 USD or equivalent.

The TEI community is encouraged to nominate prospective candidates for the Rahtz Prize. Self-nominations will also be accepted. You do not have to be a member of the TEI-C to make a nomination.

Nominations should be submitted through a form, which requires contact information for the nominee, or nominees in the case of a team, a project title, and a brief statement for the nomination: https://goo.gl/forms/XPQ8qnAFf4ewTVFP2. 

Nominators 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.

The Awards Panel [1] will review the nominations and extend invitations for applications by early-to-mid May 2019. Nominees interested in applying will need to submit their application materials by 1 June 2019. For more information about the Rahtz Prize, including the nomination and application process, consult: https://tei-c.org/activities/rahtz-prize-for-tei-ingenuity.

Nominations are due 30 April 2019 by midnight Hawaii/Aleutian Standard Time (HAST).

[1] The Awards Panel is made up of the Chair of the Board of Directors, Chair of the Technical Council, and former recipients of the Rahtz Prize. The 2019 Awards Panel is made up of: Kathryn Tomasek, Chair of the TEI Board of Directors, Martina Scholger, Chair of the TEI Technical Council, Sabine Seifert and Stefan Dumont, Winners of the 2018 Rahtz Prize.