Author: Martina Scholger

The Nominations and Elections Committee is pleased to announce the opening of the 2021 TEI-C Elections. Results will be announced at the 2021 Members’ Meeting, which will be held at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (US) on October 27. The Zoom URL for the meeting will be distributed on October 20.

This year (2021), TEI Members will hold an election to fill six open positions on the TEI Technical Council (four for 3-year terms, two for a 1-year term) and two on the TEI Board of Directors (for 3-year terms).

The following persons have been nominated and have agreed to stand as candidates for election to the TEI Technical Council and the TEI Board. They have each supplied a statement with two parts:

1. a candidate statement explaining their reasons for wishing to serve on the Board or Technical Council and what their particular goals would be.
2. a biographical description focusing on their education, training, research, etc., relevant to the TEI.

We are really excited to have candidates from so many different regions!

The link to the full slate and voting information is: https://tei-c.org/Vault/MembersMeetings/2021-info/mm2021.html

Candidate Statements: TEI Technical Council

• Clifford Anderson
• Elisa Beshero-Bondar
• Elli Bleeker
• Meaghan Brown
• Nicholas Cole
• Daria Elagina
• Gustavo Fernández Riva
• Simon Gabay
• Vanessa Hannesschläger
• Dario Kampkaspar
• Fotini Koidaki
• Martina Scholger
• Sabine Seifert
• Peter Stadler
• Joey Takeda
• Magdalena Turska
• Yifan Wang
• Laura Weakly

Candidate Statements: TEI Board of Directors

• James Cummings
• Wolfgang Meier
• Emmanuel Ngue Um
• Duoduo Xu

A Note on Voting

Voting will be conducted via the OpaVote website, which uses the open-source balloting software OpenSTV for tabulation. OpenSTV is a widely used open-source Single Transferable Vote program.

TEI Member voters, identified by email address, will receive a URL at which to cast their ballots. When the election closes, all voters who cast a vote will be sent an email with a link to the results of the election, from which it is also possible to download the actual final ballots for verification. Individual members may vote in the TEI Technical Council elections. The nominated representative of institutions with membership may vote for both the TEI Board and TEI Technical Council.

Voting closes on October 22, 2021 at 23:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST) as it offers the latest global midnight.

On behalf of the Nominating Committee 2021:
Janelle Jenstad, TEI-C Council member
Diane Jakacki, TEI-C Board member
Ken Penner, TEI-C Board member
Gimena del Rio Riande, TEI-C Board member

The TEI Consortium has released version 4.3.0 of the TEI Guidelines, the “dot-dot-dot” release, and version 7.52.0 of the TEI Stylesheets.
For more details, please see the release notes.

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).

Raff Viglianti released RomaJS 0.3.1. For more details on bug fixes and enhancements see the release notes.

The TEI Consortium is pleased to announce the results of the 2020 TEI/TAPAS elections:

TEI Technical Council: 

Syd Bauman, Helena Bermúdez Sabel (two years), Hugh Cayless, Janelle Jenstad, and Raffaele Viglianti.

TEI Board:

Diane Jakacki, Ken Penner (two years), and Gimena del Rio Riande.

TAPAS:

Laura Estill

Please note that the terms are for three years except as marked.

Congratulations!