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 . a biographical description focusing on their education, training, research, etc., relevant to the TEI.
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 Voting closes on September 17, 2019 at 23:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST) as it offers the latest global midnight.
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 Since 2015 I am a member of the TEI Technical Council and TAPAS Advisory Board. I am an active member of TEI community, taking part in the ongoing discussion through usual communication channels (TEI-L, but also DiXiT project blog and my personal gitHub account), extensively engaging in teaching and outreach events across Europe and regularly serving as a reviewer and program committee member for TEI Members Meetings.
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 In addition to my main affiliation, I teach the TEI throughout Brittany and am affiliated to doctoral schools in Italy, Portugal and Spain where I teach TEI as a research tool. A member of the French Consortium Cahier (HumaNum), I recently set up the SIG on TEI as a means to assist beginner and confirmed TEI users in breaking the loneliness of the long distance TEI encoder. I often teach TEI to total beginners, but strongly believe that moving on requires discussing issues found in texts so as to exchange ideas and encourage both learners and more advanced users to explore possibilities and share knowledge.
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		+	===Mary Isbell===
		+	'''Statement of purpose'''
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		+	I was introduced to the TEI after defending my dissertation and learned the fundamentals and advanced concepts through courses at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and seminars, workshops organized by the Women Writers Project, and the Programming for Humanists series at TAMU. The TEI community has certainly provided me with ample training in the principles of descriptive markup, but it is the publishing service TAPAS provides that initially made it possible for me to continue to invest energy in this methodology. I am the only faculty member at my institution who knows what the TEI is, but my research and teaching in this area is growing because of TAPAS. There are many scholars in precisely my situation, and my work on the advisory board would include efforts to expand the number of scholars taking advantage of the resource.
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		+	Because of TAPAS, I am also able to teach undergraduate students how to produce TEI data. The classroom initiative at TAPAS transformed my teaching. Simply put, I would not have attempted to offer an undergraduate course on digital editing if I had not learned about the TAPAS platform. I now offer this course regularly, and research projects emerging from the course are the inspiration for an expanding digital humanities initiative at my university. My goal as a member of the advisory board will be to help more scholars learn about this initiative and assist in making it as useful as possible to scholars and students. I am especially interested in exploring the possibilities for partnership between TAPAS and GitHub Education."
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		+	'''Biography'''
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		+	Mary Isbell is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Haven, where she directs the First-Year Writing Program and the University Writing Center. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Connecticut. She has published in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies and Victorian Literature and Culture. Her digital edition of extracts from The Young Idea, a handwritten shipboard newspaper, was published with Scholarly Editing. Her current book project on shipboard theatricals will be accompanied by a full edition of The Young Idea presented with a custom XSLT transformation inspired by the design of TAPAS.

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	For more details on my academic career see my research profile at Graz University (https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu_online/wbforschungsportal.cbshowportal?pPersonNr=80075).		For more details on my academic career see my research profile at Graz University (https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu_online/wbforschungsportal.cbshowportal?pPersonNr=80075).
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		+	===Geoffrey Williams===
		+	'''Statement of purpose'''
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		+	I have a long experience in encoding corpora and texts in a wide variety of forms, and also of teaching TEI to complete beginners within university courses destined to both literary students and to those on vocational degrees in publishing and document management. Should I be elected I would like to bring my expertise in three main areas: the teaching of TEI, the use of TEI in literary, linguistic and lexicographical research and in the use of TEI for the encoding of reference works. I am particular aware of the need to assist those who are not necessarily convinced by the use of computers in literary research and in finding ways to make researchers more aware of the possibilities offered by the TEI.
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		+	'''Biography'''
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		+	I am full Professor of Applied linguistics at the University of South Brittany (UBS), France and also researcher in digital humanities at the University Grenoble Alpes (UGA) as well as being affiliated to a number of doctoral schools and research groups in Catalonia, Italy, and Portugal. Having been a corpus linguist, digital lexicographer and TEI practitioner for years, I suddenly realised that I was also a digital humanist. I first started TEI practice at the Text Encoding Summer School in Oxford in 1999, and have been using the TEI in my teaching and research ever since. I was initially mostly working on language corpora building large special language corpora for sociolinguistic and lexicographical purposes. As my favoured tool was XAIRA, I worked hard on developing headers that allowed us to fully exploit the data. In 2004, I introduced in as a key element of the Publishing and Document management master’s course I created at UBS and started to code a wider variety of texts, particularly theatrical ones in French in collaboration with a colleague specialised in 17-18th century French theatre. In more recent years, I have specialised in retrodigitalisation of legacy dictionaries into XML-TEI as my main research interests are in lexicography. I am currently the PI of the BasNum Project, a French nationally funded endeavour to digitise the 170I edition of the Furetière's Dictionnaire Universel using GROBID dictionaries. Our aim is to produce a full online version of the dictionary as well as working versions of related late 17th century works and to carry out research on both the sources and heritage of the work. Grobid is already a highly efficient system for the automatic encoding off dictionaries, we aim to improve its capabilities on earlier works whilst also developing Named Entity identifier tools that can help explore scholarly networks and sources behind dictionaries citations and examples.
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		+	In addition to my main affiliation, I teach the TEI throughout Brittany and am affiliated to doctoral schools in Italy, Portugal and Spain where I teach TEI as a research tool. A member of the French Consortium Cahier (HumaNum), I recently set up the SIG on TEI as a means to assist beginner and confirmed TEI users in breaking the loneliness of the long distance TEI encoder. I often teach TEI to total beginners, but strongly believe that moving on requires discussing issues found in texts so as to exchange ideas and encourage both learners and more advanced users to explore possibilities and share knowledge.

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	Kathryn Tomasek is Professor of History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she teaches U.S. Women’s History and Digital History. She has been the PI on several grants focused on TEI markup of historical accounting records. An alpha version of her current project can be seen at https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:depcha.		Kathryn Tomasek is Professor of History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she teaches U.S. Women’s History and Digital History. She has been the PI on several grants focused on TEI markup of historical accounting records. An alpha version of her current project can be seen at https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:depcha.
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		+	===Georg Vogeler===
		+	'''Statement of purpose'''
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		+	If elected, I will try to continue to support the TEI community in the following tasks:
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		+	Clear the relationship between the TEI and similar communties in the Digital Humanities, like the activities in the archival sciences (EAD) or museums (LIDO, CIDOC-CRM).
		+	Help the TEI to integrate fringe activities in adjactant fields to the TEI core. Exchange of experiences and support of customisations demonstrating the relationship between the mainstream TEI and the approaches of these communities can foster the ideals of openess rooted in the TEI community.
		+	Foster the scholarly legitimation of our activities in the TEI-journal, the Conference, and enhanced it to TAPAS.
		+	Consider strategies to remedy the digital divide created by economic differences.
		+	Support the TEI community to manage generational transitions, keeping the knowledge on the technical solutions, focus on core tasks, devleop a common long term strategy.
		+	Support the <soCalled>front line</soCalled> of the TEI, i.e. the council, the editorial board of the journal, and in particular all single scholars gathering grant money to enhance the core of the TEI: text encoding in all its varieties.
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		+	'''Biography'''
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		+	I am full professor for Digital Humanities at the Centre for Information Modelling at Graz University in Austria (http://informationsmodellierung.uni-graz.at) and scientific director of the Austrian Academy DH Center (http://acdh.oeaw.ac.at). I studied Historical Auxiliary Sciences and become envolved in the text encoding community via my interest in digital scholarly editing and digital diplomatics. In 2004 I started the Charters Encoding Initiative to attract the diplomatics community to text encoding, with several conferences on digital diplomatics and support for the application of XML in the world largest portal on medieval and early modern charters monasterium.net. I'm happy to see the current work to integrate this initiative into the TEI. Since 2011 I'm employed at the Centre for Informationmodelling at Graz University where the GAMS is an OAIS compliant portal, which relies heavily on the application of the TEI for archiving and publishing textual material. Austrian Academy's ACDH is also producing focused on the use of the TEI for linguistic and other corpora. Austrian Academy's ACDH has hosted the TEI conference in 2017 and Graz is not following this. In some of the projects at ZIM I was envolved personally, trying to figure the best way how to include the needs of historical research into text encoding (e.g. in the MEDEA collaborative http://medea.hypotheses.org and its successor DEPCHA http://gams.uni-graz.at/DEPCHA).
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		+	I act / acted in several scientific advisory boards. I gained experiences in the management of international scholarly associations while I was member of the board of the APICES 2008-2012, in the board of directors of the Digital Medievalist (digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com) since 2014 and acted in the TEI-C board as secretary in 2018.
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		+	I am glad that I can contribute to the development of the TEI community by hosting the TEI conference 2019 in Graz, by being member of the current board, and by continuously teaching the TEI as tool for digital scholarly editing in university and with my colleagues from the IDE (Institute for documentology and editorial sciences, http://i-d-e.de).
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		+	For more details on my academic career see my research profile at Graz University (https://online.uni-graz.at/kfu_online/wbforschungsportal.cbshowportal?pPersonNr=80075).

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	In 2017 I moved from a research support role at the University of Oxford to Newcastle University, where I am a tenured Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval English Literature and Digital Humanities. In this research-focussed post I work in the areas of digital scholarly editing and late medieval drama. My TEI experience remains central to my own research and also projects under the umbrella of the Animating Text Newcastle University project. I created, and continue to run, the grassroots openly nominated and openly voted annual DH Awards. I founded and directed the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School from 2010 (when it grew out of the TEI summer school) to my departure in 2017. I was an elected member of Digital Medievalist (2004-2012; Director, 2009-2012). My Ph.D. was on “Contextual studies of the dramatic records in the area around The Wash, c. 1350-1550” and involved a significant amount of archival transcription of Late Middle English and Latin documents.		In 2017 I moved from a research support role at the University of Oxford to Newcastle University, where I am a tenured Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval English Literature and Digital Humanities. In this research-focussed post I work in the areas of digital scholarly editing and late medieval drama. My TEI experience remains central to my own research and also projects under the umbrella of the Animating Text Newcastle University project. I created, and continue to run, the grassroots openly nominated and openly voted annual DH Awards. I founded and directed the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School from 2010 (when it grew out of the TEI summer school) to my departure in 2017. I was an elected member of Digital Medievalist (2004-2012; Director, 2009-2012). My Ph.D. was on “Contextual studies of the dramatic records in the area around The Wash, c. 1350-1550” and involved a significant amount of archival transcription of Late Middle English and Latin documents.
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		+	===Kathryn Tomasek===
		+	'''Statement of purpose'''
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		+	I am honored to have been nominated for a third term as a member of the Board of Directors of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, and I am happy to stand for re-election. If I am elected for a third term, it will be my last.
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		+	My understanding of the duties of the Board has evolved considerably since my first term. When I joined the Board in 2016, I had long agreed with the characterization of the Board’s responsibilities as “keeping the lights on,” that is, making sure that regular business of the Consortium is done—nominations, elections, the annual conference and Members’ Meeting. I still believe that the Council does the most important work of the TEI in maintaining the Guidelines, but I have come to a clearer understanding of the work of the Board. One of our jobs might be to “keep the lights on,” but there are broader duties that fall to the Board, duties one might characterize as having a sense of “the big picture.”
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		+	I would define “the big picture” as a sense of the long-term stability of the TEI-C: fiscally, as a set of services and practices, and as a community. And I have seen the Board work towards these ends during the time that I have served on it.
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		+	The founders of the TEI-C created an open, free resource with the intention of realizing the promise of the web’s potential for interchange of data. Over the past thirty-plus years, the TEI has evolved, and we have at the same time maintained our focus on the Guidelines, on openness, and on being a community-focused organization.
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		+	Generational change as people have retired or moved on to new interests have necessitated a shift from relying on institutional memory to more formal organization of some of the Board’s activities. My predecessor as Chair, Michelle Dalmau, did substantial work to document the practices of the Board, and I continue to be grateful to her for this contribution. In 2018, we began to work with the organization management firm Virtual, Inc., to handle the TEI-C’s business services. In 2019, we have organized an Infrastructure Working Group to inventory and establish protocols for maintaining all of the technical services of the TEI.
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		+	Understanding the TEI’s “big picture” means realizing that in addition to the Guidelines as maintained by the Council and the routine matters of elections and conferences that are the purview of the Board, the TEI is also the publisher of a journal, and it is an international community that continues to grow and flourish even as we face the kinds of challenges posed by the server fails of the past year. I see the work that we have done in my time as Chair to follow on the goal of preparing the TEI-C for its future by rationalizing the regular maintenance work overseen by the Board and carried out by the many volunteers on whose dedication the TEI-C relies.
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		+	The TEI is an community of volunteers that has been doing some of the foundational work of Digital Humanities for more than thirty years, and my goal is to ensure that we continue to be able to do that work for at least the next thirty years and beyond.
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		+	'''Biography'''
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		+	Kathryn Tomasek is Professor of History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where she teaches U.S. Women’s History and Digital History. She has been the PI on several grants focused on TEI markup of historical accounting records. An alpha version of her current project can be seen at https://gams.uni-graz.at/context:depcha.

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		+	===James Cummings===
		+	'''Statement of purpose'''
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		+	It is an honour to stand for election to the TEI-C Board. I have been involved with the TEI community as a user and volunteer for many years, serving as an elected member of the TEI Technical Council since 2005, including a stint as its chair. Over many years working for the University of Oxford, I worked on many projects using TEI, providing advice, support, and technological development. Some of these projects went on to benefit the infrastructure of the TEI Consortium itself. I have long been involved in teaching the TEI at many institutions internationally. Instead of accepting a kind nomination by someone to stand for the TEI-C Technical Council again, I have chosen to stand for the TEI-C Board, for a number of reasons. Firstly, I wish to continue to contribute to the TEI Consortium, but I want to make way for new people with a diverse range of skills to stand for election to the TEI-C Technical Council. Secondly, I believe that having a TEI-C Board member with a long history of experience on the TEI-C Technical Council will help as it works towards a more resilient technical infrastructure. Lastly, I believe that I have a lot to offer the TEI-C Board. If elected to the TEI-C Board, I will work to help ensure that the TEI improves its overall sustainability but retains flexibility in an ever-changing technological world.
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		+	'''Biography'''
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		+	In 2017 I moved from a research support role at the University of Oxford to Newcastle University, where I am a tenured Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval English Literature and Digital Humanities. In this research-focussed post I work in the areas of digital scholarly editing and late medieval drama. My TEI experience remains central to my own research and also projects under the umbrella of the Animating Text Newcastle University project. I created, and continue to run, the grassroots openly nominated and openly voted annual DH Awards. I founded and directed the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School from 2010 (when it grew out of the TEI summer school) to my departure in 2017. I was an elected member of Digital Medievalist (2004-2012; Director, 2009-2012). My Ph.D. was on “Contextual studies of the dramatic records in the area around The Wash, c. 1350-1550” and involved a significant amount of archival transcription of Late Middle English and Latin documents.

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