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TEI-C 2021 elections: call for nominations

Posted on by Martina Scholger

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

The following positions are vacant and up for election:

  • TEI-C Board
    • 2 members (for 3-year term)
  • TEI-C Council
    • 4 members (for 3-year term)
    • 2 members (for 1-year term)

Please submit your nominations to the TEI-C Board Nominating Committee by  30 June 2021: http://bit.ly/TEICelections2021

The elections will take place via online voting prior to the virtual Members’ Meeting.

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 9 August

All nominees are reminded that it is the duty of members of all two 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 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 two for 1 year as part of the transition to 3-year terms.

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

TEI P5 Guidelines version 4.2.1 and Stylesheets version 7.51.1 released

Posted on by Martina Scholger

The TEI Consortium has released version 4.2.1 of the TEI P5 Guidelines and version 7.51.1 of Styelsheets, a follow-up version of the TEI P5 Guidelines version 4.2.0 and Stylesheets version 7.51.0, where we surfaced an issue with the conversion of the constraints on attributes to XHTML. This problem did not effect the schemas, but made the “Schema Declaration” portion of the references pages of several elements unreadable. For more details, please see the release notes.

2020 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity

Posted on by Martina Scholger

The TEI Consortium is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity!

Winner: TEI Lex-0

https://dariah-eric.github.io/lexicalresources/pages/TEILex0/TEILex0.html

DARIAH Working Group on Lexical Resources: Piotr Banski, Jack Bowers, Jesse de Does, Katrien Depuydt, Tomaž Erjavec, Alexander Geyken, Axel Herold, Vera Hildenbrandt, Mohamed Khemakhem, Snežana Petrović, Laurent Romary, Ana Salgado, Toma Tasovac, Andreas Witt

TEI Lex-0 is both a technical specification and a set of community-based recommendations for encoding machine-readable dictionaries. It is a customization of the TEI scheme. TEI Lex-0 establishes a baseline encoding and a target format to facilitate the interoperability of heterogeneously-encoded lexical resources. This is important both for building lexical resources and developing generic TEI-aware tools such as dictionary viewers and profilers.

Special 2020 TEI Community Prize: TTHub. Text Technologies Hub. Recursos sobre tecnologías del texto y edición digital

https://tthub.io/

Susanna Allés Torrent, Gimena del Rio Riande, and Gabriel Calarco

TTHub is a collaborative open access platform of materials in Spanish devoted to the community interested in the use of TEI as a standard for digital editions and text technologies for Hispanic texts. Their goal is to serve as a hub of open online materials, resources, news, software, and technologies that can potentially serve those interested in textual studies, digital editing, corpus construction, and digitization in Spanish.
TTHub is organized in several sections: These bring together teaching materials including presentations from workshops, talks, and other materials.
They have a Spanish bibliography of for learning TEI and related technologies in Zotero and Zenodo.
In another section they have online encoding examples of Hispanic texts.
In yet another they are seeking people to collaboratively crowdsource Spanish translations of the TEI Specifications.