TEI-C Elections 2018

Introduction

In 2018, TEI Members will hold an election to fill 5 open positions on the TEI Technical Council and 3 on the TEI Board of Directors; each newly elected member will serve a two-year term, 2018 and 2019. We are also electing 1 new member to the TAPAS advisory board. The following persons have been nominated to the TEI Nominating committee 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.

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 will open in a few days.

Voting closes on September 10, 2018 at 23:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST) as it offers the latest global midnight.

Candidate Statements: TAPAS Advisory Board

Anne Baillot

Statement of purpose

As a managing editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, I have facilitated the connection between TEI users and TAPAS by actively contributing to the introduction of a new submission format, the data paper, and recommending TAPAS as a trusted repository in this context. I am convinced that we need a solid repository infrastructure for the TEI community to be able to grow on a larger and more solid basis in the future. Long time accessibility, trustworthiness of repositories, open access to primary and secondary sources are crucial issues in the developments of digital-based Humanities. The way TAPAS will develop will be essential in the way the TEI in particular and Digital Humanities in general will evolve in the coming years. I would very much like to contribute to giving momentum to this project, to think globally about its evolution and to provide institutional and personal energy for the TAPAS governance.

Biography

Anne Baillot is a Full Professor of German Studies at Le Mans Université (France). She studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a PhD in German Studies of the University Paris-VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis. She was a Junior Research Group Leader in Modern German Literature at the Humboldt-Universität (Berlin) between 2010 and 2016, where she developed and edited the digital scholarly edition of manuscripts, letters and texts, Intellectual Berlin around 1800. Between 2016 and 2017, she was an expert in digital methods for the humanities for the DARIAH ERIC. Since 2016, she is the managing editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative. Her areas of expertise include epistolarity, digital scholarly editions, cultural heritage research. She is a fervent defender of open access.