TEI Technical Council


The TEI Technical Council is responsible for the development and maintenance of the TEI Guidelines and other TEI systems and resources. It recommends, evaluates, and implements new features and modifications of existing features, and supervises the overall development of each new version of the Guidelines. At the TEI annual members' meeting, the Council presents a report on current work, and minutes are available from the meetings of the Council as well. The archives of the TEI Technical Council mailing list are public accessible and ongoing and past work can be seen on the bug and feature request trackers on the TEI's SourceForge site.

The TEI Technical Council consists of twelve members. The Chair of the Board of Directors and at least one other person appointed by the Board of Directors serve on the Council; the other members are elected to staggered two-year terms by the TEI membership at the annual Members' Meeting. The Council meets once or twice a year in person, and holds a telephone conference call roughly every other month. The TEI Council sometimes uses the TEI Council Wiki Page to organize agendas or other information relating to its meetings.

Current TEI Council Members

Council Chair (appointed)

James Cummings
Manager of InfoDev, Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford

Term January 2011 through December 2012

Piotr Bański
Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
James Cummings
Manager of InfoDev, Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford
Sebastian Rahtz
Information and Support Group manager, Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford
Stuart Yeates
Lead Architect, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

Term January 2012 through December 2013

Brett Barney
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska
Gabriel Bodard
Researcher in Digital Epigraphy, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
Kevin Hawkins
Head of Digital Publishing Production, MPublishing, University of Michigan Library
Martin Holmes
Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria
Paul Schaffner
Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan Libraries
Rebecca Weizenbach
Text Creation Partnership, University of Michigan

TEI Board Representative (appointed)

Lou Burnard
Formerly of Oxford University Computing Services, University of Oxford

Ex Officio (chair of TEI Board of Directors)

John Unsworth
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign