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

If re-elected to Council, I will push forward on work to shore up some of the TEI’s older pieces of infrastructure. Great improvements have been made already, but some of the remaining tasks include upgrading the Stylesheets to XSLT 3.0 and modernizing the web display of the Guidelines. I will also continue working on improving the infrastructure to support internationalizing and translating the TEI’s documentation and on making the TEI more approachable to newcomers. Finally, I hope to continue work on the TEI’s support for digital critical editions and standoff annotation. It has been a joy and honor to serve on the Council with thoughtful and insightful colleagues and I look forward to supporting them and the TEI in the future, whether I am re-elected or not.

Biography

Hugh Cayless is a Senior Digital Humanities Developer at Duke University Libraries. He is Treasurer of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium and he has served on the TEI Technical Council since 2012. Hugh has worked on Digital Humanities projects with a focus on ancient studies since the late 1990s and holds a Ph.D. in Classics and an M.S. in Information Science from UNC Chapel Hill. He is proficient in several programming languages and database systems. His current research focuses on digital critical editions and on improving the accessibility and usability of TEI.

Nicholas Cole

Statement of purpose

I was elected last year to complete the final year of a term which had been vacated, and I have spent most of this year serving my 'apprenticeship' on the TEI Council, learning how the various parts of the project fit together and how to make a difference. TEI is a venerable project, and it has been a daunting task at times. I would now like to be elected to serve a full term so that I can put this knowledge to use for the community.

I have a strong interest in the design of TEI guidelines, and have been especially interested in the work to implement <standoff> and a TEI bridge to the world of WADM. I understand that some of the most crucial work of the Council, though, is to improve the consistency and clarity of the guidelines.

In my academic work, I run the Quill Project at the University of Oxford, which produces digital editions of negotiated texts and the discussions that produce them. This category of text includes many written constitutions, pieces legislation, and international treaties. The project hosts a rapidly growing digital archive -- much of which concerns manuscripts literally edited with scraps of paper and glue, and which can therefore be complicated to transcribe accurately.

I have an interest in the very technical aspects of representing humanities data. Due to the algorithms used for processing, the Quill Project's core data model was not initially able to handle structured documents of any kind, While we can now handle some limited rich text formats, XML remains a difficult problem. An active area of current research is therefore to find a way to implement Operational Transformation techniques reliably on XML/TEI documents that describe the work of a formal negotiation, either directly or using bidirectional translation into intermediate document formats. I hope that this work will result not just in improvements for us, but in the ability to write more general tools for editing and processing TEI, especially in multi-user environments.

More generally, our project puts a strong emphasis on the ability to annotate data, and the production of highly accurate transcriptions.

I am interested in the creation of workflows that speed documentary editing processes and in the automatic conversion of TEI to and from other formats for the purpose of editing and analysis. I am interested in extending the TEI specification to capture the features of the specific kinds of material that we encounter during our work on negotiations and legislative histories.

I am well aware of the amount of work needed from members of the Technical Council in order to ensure that TEI remains a vibrant community and that the standard develops sensibly to allow for new or better applications. If elected, I commit to being an active member of the Council throughout my term.

Biography

I studied Ancient and Modern History at University College, Oxford, where I also completed an MPhil in Greek/Roman History and a Doctorate focused on American Political Thought. I have held several research and teaching posts. I am currently the director of the Quill Project, at Pembroke College, Oxford, and collaborate with a number of institutions in the United States, including a deep partnership with an open-enrollment university. My current role sees me involved in data-model design, visualization, user-interface design, and software engineering, alongside the traditional tasks of a historian.

Janelle Jenstad

Statement of purpose

The TEI community offers one of the finest models of international, interdisciplinary cooperation. I am eager to give back to a community that has profoundly shaped my work, enthusiastically responded to the challenges of the texts that interest me and my team, and provided rich opportunities for so many scholars and students. I am committed to devising creative, collaborative solutions that serve both the local challenges of individual projects and the broader community at the same time. To the Council, I will bring my lengthy experience in writing clear, user-friendly documention. Having been blessed with extraordinary developer colleagues, I have not needed to develop the full suite of technical expertise that others might bring to the Council. But I have learned to communicate scholarly imperatives to developers and, in turn, to convey developers’ counsel to scholars. If the work of Council tends in these directions, I do have a particular interest in mobilizing TEI-encoded data and texts for linked data applications, in integrating GIS and TEI, in revising the “Performance Texts” chapter, and in rethinking the TEI’s metadata model.

Biography

I’m an Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, where I specialize in digital textual editing, book history, project design and documentation, and the digital geohumanities. Learning TEI in 2005 (from Syd Bauman and Julia Flanders) was a transformative, career-changing experience. With subsequent coaching and chivvying from my collaborator and colleague Martin Holmes, I have built two major TEI projects, The Map of Early Modern London (https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca) and now Linked Early Modern Drama Online (https://lemdo.uvic.ca); co-organized TEI 2017 in Victoria; and (with Kathryn Tomasek) co-edited JTEI 12. I now regularly teach XML for Professional Communicators, incorporate TEI into my textual studies and bibliography classes, and supervise projects/theses with an encoding focus. MoEML is known for its encoding partnerships and its training program, which has introduced hundreds of students to TEI; it is also known for its Praxis documentation and contributions to the TEI guidelines. I am a contributor to “The Endings Project,” which is working on technical and project-management strategies for bringing DH editing projects to a sustainable, archivable end product, as well as to “The LINCS Project” (Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship). For more information on my other scholarly activities, see (https://janellejenstad.com/).

David Maus

Statement of purpose

My personal experience with the TEI guidelines comes from the processing of TEI encoded documents and helping scholars to better understand the technologies involved.

I am interested in the technical aspects of maintaining the TEI guidelines and stylesheets, and overarching aspects of text modelling. This also includes the active use of TEI encoded documents in the context of other technologies like the International Image Interoperability Framework™ (IIIF) and Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

During my time at the TEI Technical Council I would like to help moving the infrastructure for publishing and testing the TEI guidelines forward, and revisit, refactor, renew where necessary.

Biography

I am head of research and development at the Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library Hamburg. From 2010 to 2019 I worked at the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel where I supported a variety of Digital Humanities projects including TEI-encoded digital editions.

Since 2016 I engage in the wider XML and markup community. I participated in the XProc 3.0 community group and I am also the author of SchXslt [ʃˈɛksl̩t], an modern XSLT-based implementation of the Schematron validation language. My recent TEI-related activities include a workshop on Schematron and Schematron QuickFix at the 2019 member's meeting in Graz.

My home institution is increasing its engagement towards the text-based Digital Humanities and supports my nomination for election to the TEI Technical Council.

Ariane Pinche

Statement of purpose

In my opinion, the TEI guidelines represent an essential concernstake for any project. Since I began working with digital editions 7 years ago, I have attached a crucial importance to the documentation of TEI markup, specifically, in ODD, in order to ensure the sustainability of the information encoded in XML files. I believe that it is extremely important to ensure a good understanding of its data, so that it can be understood and reused.

As an assiduous user of TEI guidelines for my own research and as a native French speaker, I would like to support the board in its desire to internationalise and clarify the guidelines. Furthermore, as a TEI XML teacher, I am often confronted with questions from French-speaking and novice students regarding the navigation and understanding of the guidelines. So I encounter daily simple but varied TEI encoding issues and hope to be able to share this novice user experience with problems that are difficult to see for experienced users. After several years of experience with students engaged directly with digital editing, I have a good idea of which questions can arise with new elements.

In my role as an editor and data producer, I’m also interested in the matter of citability of XML data and new standards such as DTS and its integration in TEI. I would like to share this experience too.

Moreover, I also think it is time for me to give back to the community. TEI has been central to my introduction to digital humanities and has helped strengthen my understanding of scientific editions in a broader sense, not just as applied to digital editions.

Biography

As a PhD student in medieval literature, I currently work on a TEI edition of saints’ Lives collection. I use TEI to structure my text, and also to add codicologic information, to establish a critical apparatus and to enrich my text with linguistic information through semi-automatic annotation. I’m also interested in graphic variation and, through my formation as a classicist and my work in the Hyperdonat project (http://hyperdonat.tge-adonis.fr), in complex manuscript tradition, critical apparatus and their visualisation.

I’m currently a teacher in XML TEI and XSLT at the Ecole nationale des chartes, as well as in Old French. I have also organised DH events (eg. https://jihn.hypotheses.org) and taught at XML TEI and XSLT workshops (eg. https://cosme.hypotheses.org/1117).

I’m invested in the digital humanities fields through my participation in the Cosme consortium for the working group lemmatisation and my participation at a couple TEI conferences and recently at DH 2019 as recipient of the Fortier Prize with my two colleagues Jean-Baptiste Camps and Thibault Clérice for the presentation : « Stylometry for Noisy Medieval Data: Evaluating Paul Meyer's Hagiographic Hypothesis » (https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0755.html).

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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Biography

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Gimena del Rio Riande

Statement of purpose

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Biography

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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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