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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).

At DH 2017 in Montreal, the Text Encoding Initiative received the Antonio Zampolli Prize in recognition of our thirtieth anniversary. Four years and a pandemic later, the TEI Guidelines remain a significant part of the digital humanities toolkit, with a strong focus on internationalization, both linguistic and geographic. From Japan to Argentina, Austria to Cameroon, we can cite multiple examples of workshops, graduate programs, and community-driven activities focused on the TEI Guidelines and their use.

Theme: Next Gen TEI

This year, the TEI-C will hold a shorter virtual version of our usual conference as our extended global community begins to recover from the pandemic. We wish to feature a forward-looking program, one that will help frame the next thirty years of the TEI.

Since we were unable to hold a conference in 2020, we feel a need to do so this year. At the same time, our members’ ability to travel is likely to remain restricted for the rest of 2021. Thus we have resolved to organize a virtual conference.

We invite submissions for presentations that consider any aspect of text encoding, with especial encouragement for submissions that address issues related to text encoding in international contexts, linguistic, cultural, and geographic. Abstracts may be submitted by individuals or groups; they should be no more than 300 words in length; they should outline the approach, challenge, and/or context in which text encoding is being applied; proposals may reflect upon subjects that are project-driven or methodological in nature.

Abstracts should be submitted via ConfTool: https://www.conftool.pro/tei2021 beginning immediately. Deadline for submissions is 31 July.

Authors should anticipate that accepted work will be presented synchronously in a telecommunications conference format (concurrent sessions conducted in Zoom or similar software) on Monday, 25 October, and on Wednesday, 27 October.

We realize that virtual conferences have certain limitations and present a variety of challenges. We will therefore make accepted presentations available on Zenodo between 15 and 25 October. We will also organize a social poster session in gather.town. More information about both opportunities will be forthcoming, and can be found on the conference web page: https://tei-c.org/next-gen-tei-2021/.

Best regards,

The TEI 2021 Program Committee

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!

The Nominations and Elections Committee is pleased to announce the opening of the 2020 TEI-C Elections. Results will be announced at the 2020 Members’ Meeting, which will be held at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (US) on Thursday, November 19. The Zoom url for the meeting will be distributed on November 1.

In 2020, TEI Members will hold an election to fill 5 open positions on the TEI Technical Council (4 for 3-year terms, 1 for a 2-year term) and 3 on the TEI Board of Directors (2 for 3-year terms, 1 for a 2-year term). We are also electing 1 new member to the TAPAS advisory board.

The following persons have been nominated and have agreed to stand as candidates for election to the TEI Technical Council, the TEI Board, and the TAPAS advisory Board. They have all supplied a statement covering two aspects:

1. a candidate statement in which they discuss their reasons for wishing to serve on the Board, TAPAS 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.

The link to the full slate and voting information is https://tei-c.org/Vault/MembersMeetings/2020-info/mm79.html

Candidate Statements: TEI Technical Council

• Syd Bauman
• Helena Bermúdez Sabel
• Hugh Cayless
• Nicholas Cole
• Janelle Jenstad
• David Maus
• Ariane Pinche
• Raffaele Viglianti

Candidate Statements: TEI Board of Directors

• Diane Jakacki
• Ken Penner
• Gimena del Rio Riande

Candidate Statements: TAPAS Advisory Board

• Laura Estill

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. Upon closing of the election, 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 November 16, 2020 at 23:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST) as it offers the latest global midnight.

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:

• 3 on the Board (2 for 3-year terms, 1 for a 2-year term)
• 5 on the Council (4 for 3-year terms, 1 for a 2-year term)
• 1 on the TAPAS Advisory Board (for 3-year term)

Please submit your nominations to the TEI-C Board Nominating Committee by 30 June 2020: Google form.
The elections will take place via online voting prior to the virtual Members’ Meeting in October 2020.

Process

Self-nominations are welcome and common. TEI-C membership is not a requirement to serve on the Board or Council or on the TAPAS Advisory Board. 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 20 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 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. For more information on the Board, including a list of current members, please see: https://tei-c.org/about/board-of-directors/. This year two of the TEI Board of Directors vacancies are for 3 years, with another one for 2 years as part of the transition to 3-year terms.

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, 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/. This year four of the TEI Technical Council vacancies are for 3 years, with another one for 2 years as part of the transition to 3-year terms.

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. For more information about the TAPAS Advisory Board, please see: http://www.tapasproject.org/tapas-team.

On behalf of the Nominating Committee 2020:

• Kathryn Tomasek, TEI-C Board Chair
• Scott Hamlin, TAPAS Co-Director
• Luis Meneses, TEI-C Webmaster
• James Cummings, TEI-C Board member
• Martina Scholger, TEI-C Council Chair

The TEI Consortium seeks nominations for a TEI-C Communications Manager to be appointed by the Board of Directors as a non-voting member of the Board. Suggested start is Monday, November 2 with a minimum of 12 months. The term length is negotiable.

This person will report regularly to the Board in its monthly meetings, will administer the TEI’s website, which runs on WordPress, and will assist with archiving conference websites and other noteworthy content developed outside of the TEI’s web infrastructure, including content maintained in Google Drive and other third party systems. They will run the TEI-C’s social media accounts.

The Communications Manager will be responsible for managing the TEI’s email lists and the password management for the TEI-C’s MediaWiki.

This person will also be responsible for setting up electronic voting using OpaVote for the annual TEI-C Board and Council elections and the TAPAS Advisory Board elections.

The TEI-C web site is currently undergoing a redesign, restructuring the content and introducing multilingualism. The TEI-C Communication Manager will support this attempt, will maintain oversight of the structure of the website, and will support the TEI Board and Council in keeping the information up to date.

The time commitment will range between 2 and 5 hours per week, depending on the tasks at hand.

It is essential that the candidate:
• has experience or aptitude with command-line tools, mailing list administration, and similar technical skills
• has experience with social media
• has experience with WordPress administration
• is well-versed in HTML/CSS
• has strong communication skills

Experience with XML/TEI is advantageous but not required. The Board of Directors will offer financial support to attend the annual TEI conference for the person selected for the position, or to their employer in return for their time commitment.

The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium is committed to diversity and inclusion, and ensures equal opportunity to all qualified individuals. We invite applications from all including those with diverse needs, backgrounds, and abilities.
If you are interested in this position please send your application including a short CV and motivation statement to the Board of Directors (board@tei-c.org). Deadline for applications is Monday, September 28.