TEI-C Elections 2020

Introduction

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 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 closes on TBD at 23:59 Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST) as it offers the latest global midnight.

Candidate Statements: TEI Technical Council

Syd Bauman

Statement of purpose

Syd would like to see progress in several areas: “User-oriented” efforts, e.g., creating documentation, recommendations, and customizations for particular constituencies or user groups; improving the look-and-feel (and flexibility) of custom documentation; and creating or commissioning reference implementations expanding the scope of the Guidelines, e.g. to include greater support for legal documents, a method for encoding acrostics, and perhaps a module addressing social media. Technical improvements to the Guidelines, e.g., further automated constraint checking, improvements to the ODD language and the stylesheets that process them, changes in TEI pointers to better align TEI with the existing W3C XPointer framework, and improvements to the automated deprecation system.

Biography

Syd came to the TEI through an interest in markup and markup languages. He became interested in SGML just prior to its publication in 1986, but did not start engaging with a real markup language until late 1990. At that time he was already working at the Brown University Women Writers Project, where his first major task was to convert WWP legacy data to be in line with the newly published TEI P1. He still works at the WWP as a Senior XML Programmer/Analyst and ever since that first challenge, he’s been thinking of ways to improve the TEI. From 2001 to 2007 Syd served the TEI as the North American Editor, and since 2013 on the Technical Council; thus he is familiar with the workings of the Council. He has been very active in the TEI community as a frequent presenter on TEI topics at conferences; by consulting closely with nearly ½ dozen TEI projects, and providing occasional assistance to another dozen or so; as a member of several SIGs and editor of the Library SIG’s _Best Practices for TEI in Libraries_; as the chair of the Council’s Stylesheets task force; and of course, through teaching numerous TEI workshops and seminars. Syd has an AB from Brown University in political science, and has worked as a systems programmer and a freelance computer typesetter. He has often tought TEI workshops and seminars, and consults for a variety of humanities computing projects. He has been an Emergency Medical Technician since 1983.

Helena Bermúdez Sabel

Statement of purpose

I am honored to have been nominated to stand for election for the TEI Technical Council. The TEI has always been a powerful resource to model my work within a wide range of research interests. From codicology, paleography, poetry, diachronic linguistics, linked data to semantic analysis, I have delved into TEI gaining a great level of familiarity with the Guidelines. I am currently interested in further employing this annotation standard to model less common applications, such as graph-based annotations of complex linguistic features like syntactic analysis and semantic ambiguity. With this goal in mind, I am currently involved in the development of automatic converters from the most common formats used by natural language processing tools to TEI, and from TEI to RDF serialization formats. I believe that these activities can promote fruitful dialogue between different research communities.

I am also a member of the Text Encoding Initiative Working Group “Internationalization (I18n)” because it embodies one of my main interests: Boosting the use of TEI outside the English-speaking community by increasing the availability of multilingual introductory materials and training, together with the dissemination of TEI projects in languages other than English.

Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) working for the SNF-funded project “A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language” (http://woposs.unil). In this project, I am responsible for the technical aspects of the annotation workflow, including the automation of corpus pre- and post-processing. The pipeline makes ample use of XML technologies and it includes a TEI output as part of the results.

I hold a PhD in Medieval Studies from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (2019). My doctoral research involved the development of a digital edition model in TEI that enables the quantitative study of linguistic variation through the automatic comparison of witnesses. An implementation of the model was illustrated with a Galician-Portuguese secular poetry corpus (http://www.gl-pt.obdurodon).

Before moving to Lausanne, I worked at the Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (Madrid, Spain). There, I was a researcher in an ERC-funded project focused on enabling the interoperability of poetic resources of European traditions via linked open data.

I also have a solid experience in Digital Humanities teaching. Besides the specialized workshops in digital philology I have taught in different institutions, I am a regular instructor of the Master in Digital Humanities of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Spain) in which, among other subjects, I teach a course focused on XSLT.

I am proficient in XML technologies and linked data. I am interested in data modeling and the formalization of annotation schemes, thus I am very keen on having a more active role in the TEI community.

Hugh Cayless

Statement of purpose

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Biography

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Nicholas Cole

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Biography

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Janelle Jenstad

Statement of purpose

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Biography

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David Maus

Statement of purpose

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Biography

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Ariane Pinche

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Biography

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Raffaele Viglianti

Statement of purpose

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Biography

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Candidate Statements: TEI Board of Directors

Diane Jakacki

Statement of purpose

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Biography

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Ken Penner

Statement of purpose

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Gimena del Rio Riande

Statement of purpose

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Candidate Statements: TAPAS Advisory Board

Laura Estill

Statement of purpose

As a literary scholar with a focus on the early modern period, for years, my teaching did not include the digital humanities, which have been so central to my research. I have slowly been able to integrate more digital humanities, including TEI, into my teaching. The extensive scholarship on editing, TEI, digital pedagogies, and, of course, the areas/subjects of a given class or research project can be daunting, to say the least. TAPAS can support learning across these areas, or, to play on its name, can encourage small tastes of multiple cuisines. I’d like to continue and extend TAPAS’s participation with existing scholarship and pedagogical initiatives.

I am particularly interested in promoting the use of the “TAPAS Classroom,” and, as Flanders et al recommend, thinking about how TAPAS can help instructors use TEI to meet a variety of course goals (2019, https://journals.openedition.org/jtei/2144). As a TAPAS advisory board member, I would hope to continue to build a welcoming and inclusive community of educators and scholars; I would, likewise, uphold TAPAS’s commitment to open publication and open pedagogy.

Biography

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