Author: Martina Scholger

The TEI Consortium has released version 4.5.0 of the TEI Guidelines, “The Release of One’s Own”, and version 7.54.0 of the TEI Stylesheets.
For more details, please see the release notes.

As a follow up to this year’s excellent and successful TEI conference at Newcastle University, which has just ended, there is an exciting opportunity for further international exchange. You are cordially invited to attend the TEI 2022 virtual poster presentation on Thursday, September 22, 2022 from 1pm-2pm (BST)!

The virtual poster session will feature the posters accepted to the TEI 2022 conference, physical and virtual. The session will be run using https://gather.town/ where we set up a space for each poster presenter. To attend, please complete the registration form at https://forms.gle/Rm9m7jP4QXyTX4aHA. You will receive the gather.town link two hours before the event starts.

The TEI2022 Registration is live.

Please see https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/tei2022/programme/ for information about the registration, links to the WebStore and the programme. Early Bird conference rates end on Sunday, August 21 2022.

If you have any questions, do feel free to email tei2022@ncl.ac.uk.

 

We invite proposals for posters and virtual posters on late-breaking research for the Text Encoding Initiative 2022 conference at Newcastle University. The conference is scheduled to take place in-person from Monday 12 September 2022 to Friday 16 September 2022.

We particularly welcome proposals from early career researchers and postgraduate students.

The deadline for submissions is 22 August 2022 by 23:59 BST; Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 26 August 2022.

Proposals must be submitted online via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.pro/tei2022

Please find more information on the conference topic “Text as Data” here: https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/tei2022/cfp/

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

The following positions are vacant and up for election:

• TEI-C  Board
  • 1 member (for a 3-year term)
• TEI Technical Council
  • 3 members (for a 3-year term)

Please submit your nominations to the TEI-C Board Nominating Committee by 15 July 2022: https://bit.ly/TEIC-Elections-2022.

The elections will take place via online voting prior to the annual Members’ Meeting and Conference in September 2022.

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 to give notice that, if elected, they will be willing to serve.

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

• formal acceptance of the nomination by 30 July
• a biography and a statement of interest and purpose by 15 August

All nominees are reminded that it is the duty of members of both 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. For more information on the Board, including a list of current members, please see: <https://tei-c.org/about/board-of-directors/>.

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 they 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, monthly teleconferences, and they should be able to commit to ongoing work during the course of the year. For more information on the Council, including a list of current members, please see: <https://tei-c.org/activities/council/>.

Nominating Committee 2022:
Hugh Cayless, TEI-C Technical Council Member & TEI-C Treasurer
Diane Jakacki, TEI-C Board Chair
Martina Scholger, TEI-C Technical Council Chair

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 2022 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 2022.

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 30 June 2022 by midnight Hawaii/Aleutian Standard Time (HAST). Nominees will be contacted by the committee and asked to submit their proposal due 15 August 2022. Self-submissions are due 15 August 2022.

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 2022 Awards Panel is made up of Gimena del Rio Riande (Member of the TEI Board of Directors), Janelle Jenstad (Member of the TEI Technical Council) and David Lassner (Technical University Berlin, Winner of the Rahtz Prize 2021).

DEADLINE EXTENDED — 20 June 2022 by 23:59 HAST.

The TEI2022 Program Committee is pleased to announce its call for proposals for the 22nd annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI), which will be held 13-16 September 2022 (Tue-Fri) at Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom with pre-conference workshops 12-13 September 2022 (Mon-Tue).

Conference site: https://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/tei2022/

ConfTool site: https://www.conftool.pro/tei2022/

 

This year’s theme is:

Text as Data

The past decade has seen a huge increase of data produced by (social)media platforms, digital literary outputs, and various mass digitization efforts of cultural heritage and administrative records. Though these vast data collections hold enormous potential for diverse research, collecting and analyzing text-based data also presents unique challenges that need to be addressed. The increasing quantity of the textual data coincides with its improved availability and accessibility, but also the continuously progressing development of data models, tools, text-mining, and machine-learning techniques. The TEI community is working at the intersection of many of these areas.

If we want the computer to “understand” a text we must either mark textual phenomena or instruct a computer to identify them. In their acclaimed work “The Shape of Data in the Digital Humanities” from 2018, Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis refer to this as “a choice between an algorithmic approach […] or what we might call a “metatextual” approach, in which information is added to the text in some explicit form that enables it to be processed intelligently”.

This call invites contributions dealing with text-related tasks in all aspects of the research process: discovery, analysis, representation, visualization, prediction, causal inference, etc.

Possible topics related to this theme include:

• TEI for analysis, annotation or visualization
• TEI and machine learning, data science, or text mining
• TEI and literary analysis
• TEI and linked open data
• TEI and complex data structures
• TEI and computer-mediated communication or social media
• TEI and computer vision or handwritten text recognition
• TEI and formal ontologies or stand-off annotation
• TEI and models of text
• TEI and galleries/libraries/archives/museums

but submissions in other areas are also welcome.

Submission Information

Each submission should include a title, an abstract, up to five keywords, and a brief biography for each of the authors. (Each biography should be no more than 500 characters, and should include current affiliation, research interests, and projects).

The following word counts apply to the text of the abstract excluding titles, bibliography, keywords, and biographies.

Language

The proposals must be submitted in English. The conference language is English.

Submission Procedure  

• Proposals must be submitted online via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.pro/tei2022/. You will need a (free) account to submit a proposal.
• The deadline for submissions is 20 June 2022 by 23:59 HAST.
• All proposals will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee.
• Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 25 July 2022.
• The deadline for submissions of the final abstracts is 22 August 2022.
• Final abstracts have to be in DOCX or ODT format.
• For further information please contact the local organizers at tei2022@ncl.ac.uk

Short papers

Speakers will be given 15 minutes each: 10 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion. This type of presentation is suited for the introduction of tools, raising of new ideas, and experimental topics. Proposals should not exceed 300 words.

Long papers

Speakers will be given 30 minutes each: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals should not exceed 500 words. This presentation type is suitable for substantial research, theoretical or critical discussions.

Session proposals

Proposed sessions will be given 90 minutes, which can be used flexibly to include, for example, 3 individual papers followed by questions, or a roundtable discussion. This type of presentation is suited to coordinated approaches or discussions relating to a single theme. Proposals for a session must include a list of speakers and their biographies. Proposals for a session should not exceed 800 words in total.

Posters

A “poster slam” session will be dedicated to poster presentations of 1 minute each. Subsequently, poster presenters will have the chance to tell interested parties more about their project during the poster exhibition, where the audience can browse freely. This type of presentation is suited to introducing new work, projects, or software. Proposals for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words. Accepted poster presenters will be eligible to present in the Virtual Poster session as well and do not need to submit a separate proposal for this.

Virtual Posters

A Virtual Poster session will be held in https://gather.town/ on the Thursday after the conference (September 22, 2022) to enable people to participate who are not able to physically attend the conference. Accepted poster presenters from the conference will automatically be eligible to present in the Virtual Poster session as well. Scheduling of the Virtual Poster Session(s) will be based on timezones of presenters. Proposals for virtual poster presentations should not exceed 300 words.

Demonstrations

A dedicated demonstration session will provide presenters of tools or software outputs with an opportunity to show the software they are working on and with. Demonstrators will be given 10 minutes: 8 minutes each for presentation with 2 minutes for quick follow-up questions. Proposals for demonstrations should not exceed 300 words.

Workshops

Workshops will be held before the conference, September 12–13, 2022 (Mon-Tue). They provide an opportunity for participants to work together on TEI-related topics. Proposals for workshops should not exceed 800 words (excl. bibliography, biography etc.) and must include:

• A brief outline of the proposed topic and its appeal to the TEI community
• The duration of the proposed workshop or seminar (half day, full day)
• Any special requirements (e.g. participant-supplied laptops, projector, flipchart)

A list of proposed workshop leader(s) with a brief biography of each one is required too. Each biography should be no more than 500 characters, and should include current affiliation, research interests, and projects.

Registration to the workshops is handled via the conference registration. The conference organisers will not charge for the workshops. Any fees considered by the workshop organisers will have to be managed by themselves.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

If you are interested in holding a SIG meeting during the conference, please contact the local hosts to book a room: tei2022@ncl.ac.uk.