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TEI 2026: Registration now open!
Registration is now open for TEI 2026: Creating Connections, Unsettling Practices, which will take plan August 10-14 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Deadlines:
- Early-bird: June 15th, 2026
- Standard: July 6, 2026
Full details for registration, including rates, are now available on the conference website.
TEI-C Members receive a discount on registration (the coupon code for which can be found on the TEI members website). Register soon to get the best rates as well as access to discounted accommodations.
Nominations for TEI-C Elections
The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium (TEI-C) invites nominations for election to the TEI-C Board and the Technical Council. The following positions are vacant and up for election:
- TEI-C Board of Directors
- 2 members (for 3-year term)
- TEI-C Technical Council
- 4 members (for 3-year term)
Please submit your nominations to the TEI-C Board Nominating Committee by 16 June 2026: https://forms.gle/5dVnEuLYWzsF5ndx9
The elections will take place via online voting closing prior to the 2026 Members’ Meeting in August.
Process
You may make multiple nominations, and you may nominate yourself. TEI-C membership is not a requirement to serve on the Board of Directors or Technical Council. All nominees who choose to accept their nomination will be asked to provide a brief statement of interest and biographical paragraph, and to give notice that, if elected, they will be willing to serve.
Once nominations are received and registered, the named person will be asked for:
- a biography and a statement of interest and purpose before 26 June
All nominees are reminded that it is the duty of members of all two bodies to participate actively in the discussion, activities, and meetings of their respective body.
The TEI-C seeks to represent its community and encourages diversity and gender balance in all its constituencies. It provides a welcoming environment for all.
TEI-C Board
The TEI-C Board is the governing body for the TEI Consortium and is responsible for its strategic and financial oversight.
The Board conducts its business by email correspondence, monthly teleconferences, and at its annual meeting, for which travel subsidies are available.
For more information on the Board, including a list of current members, please see: https://tei-c.org/about/board-of-directors/. This year two vacancies for the TEI Board of Directors are available for a term of 3 years.
TEI-C Technical Council
The TEI-C Technical Council oversees the technical development of the TEI Guidelines. Candidates for Council should be reasonably experienced users of the Guidelines, and expertise/interest in specific areas is helpful. Council members also evaluate bug reports and feature requests, and they have primary responsibility for editing and updating the Guidelines and its release packages.
Prospective candidates should be available for subsidized travel to one or two face-to-face meetings annually, and they should be able to commit to ongoing work during the course of the year, including usually two 90-minute teleconference meetings per month.
For more information on the Council, including a list of current members, please see: https://tei-c.org/activities/council/. This year four vacancies for the TEI Technical Council are available for a term of 3 years.
- Gimena del Rio Riande, TEI-C Board member
- Dimitra Grigoriou, TEI-C Board member
- Martina Scholger, TEI-C Council member
- TEI Nominating Committee 2026
Call for TEI-C Treasurer and Membership Secretary
The TEI Consortium seeks applicants to fill the TEI-C Treasurer and Membership Secretary position, which will be appointed by the Board of Directors as a non-voting member of the Board. This is a three-year volunteer role which we would hope would start 1 July 2026. This is an essential position for the TEI-C Board of Directors with global outreach and strategic decision-making on behalf of the TEI-C membership. The position offers valuable experience in managing a large budget and directly advising the TEI-C Board of Directors.
The role of TEI-C Treasurer and Membership Secretary is generally described in the TEI-C Bylaws as follows:
The Treasurer and Membership Secretary (hereafter 'Treasurer') shall collect, have custody of and be responsible for all funds of the Consortium, shall keep an accurate account of such funds, shall pay all just bills when due and funds are available, and shall prepare and submit such financial reports as are legally required by the fiscal authorities. In addition the Treasurer shall report to the Membership on the financial affairs of the Consortium during the past year at the Annual Meeting. All checks, drafts, invoices, notices and orders for the payment or receipt of money issued by the Consortium and other similar documents requiring the signature of the Consortium shall be signed by the Treasurer or by such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate for this purpose. The Treasurer shall also be responsible for the recruitment and maintenance of the Member rolls and direction and development of membership benefits and programmes. https://www.tei-c.org/about/bylaws/#TEIby-A5.5
In practice, the role of Treasurer is largely two-fold:
- serving as a liaison with the TEI-C professional association management company (currently, Virtual Inc.) and the rest of the TEI-C Board of Directors
- vision and forecast planning for the ongoing growth of the TEI-C in close collaboration with the rest of the Board of Directors
The primary duties of the Treasurer are to:
- sign financial documents (including checks, tax returns etc.) and approve payments (e.g. expenses) on behalf of the Consortium
- report to the Board and the membership on the finances of the Consortium
- ensure membership payments that are not made by credit card on the membership website, but by other means (PayPal, etc.) are processed properly
- represent the interests of the Consortium in working with the association management company including budget planning, financial forecasting, etc.
- support TEI-C conference and members' meeting hosts, by serving as an intermediary between the hosts, the Board of Directors, and the association management company
- membership strategic planning in close collaboration with the TEI-C Board of Directors
- grant planning and budgeting where TEI-C is involved
The time commitment will range from 5-6 hours a month, depending on the tasks at hand. It's essential that the incumbent:
- like spreadsheets
- be detail-oriented
- be easy to reach by email and TEI-C slack
Experience with managing institutional budgets or similar is desirable.
The TEI-C will support the role-holder’s attendance at the annual TEI conference and a life-long TEI-C individual membership in return for their time commitment. The Text Encoding Initiative Consortium is committed to diversity and inclusion, and ensures equal opportunity to all qualified individuals. We invite applications from all including those with diverse needs, backgrounds, and abilities. There is no requirement for the role-holder to be a US resident or an existing member of the TEI-C for this volunteer role.
Please apply to the Chair of the TEI-C Board, James Cummings, by 31 May 2026, with a covering letter stating motivations for applying for the position and a short resume/CV highlighting the specific competencies. Interviews with potential candidates will be held online. Send application materials to James Cummings at chair@tei-c.org.
If applicants have informal questions about the role, they may approach the current office-holder Hugh Cayless philomousos AT gmail.com.
TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2026: Call for Proposals DEADLINE EXTENDED
We are pleased to announce the call for papers, posters, panels, and workshops for the 26th annual meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Co-hosted by the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, TEI 2026 will be held August 10–14, 2026 (Mon-Fri) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada on the unceded, unsurrendered, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.
We welcome submissions to do with any aspect of text encoding and digital textual scholarship. This year’s theme—Creating Connections, Unsettling Practices—invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to explore the past, present, and future of the TEI. Grounded in a commitment to anti-racist, feminist, and decolonial practices, TEI 2026 encourages participants to reflect critically on the structures, collaborations, tools, and methods that variously animate, sustain, modify, or challenge digital textual scholarship today. See the full CFP for a list of potential topics.
All proposals are due February 19, 2026 February 27, 2026. Further information and submission details can be found on the conference website: https://tei2026.tei-c.org.
On behalf of the entire TEI 2026 conference team, we look forward to welcoming you to Vancouver in August!
Local Organizers: Mary Chapman (UBC); Katherine Bowers (UBC); Sydney Lines (UBC); Rebecca Dowson (SFU)
Program Committee: Emily Christina Murphy (UBCO); Joey Takeda (SFU)
TEI-C Survey on Membership and Activities
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium is conducting a survey concerning membership and activities of the consortium. You do not need to be a member to answer it.
The TEI Consortium is a non-profit membership organization. All income it receives goes back into the activities of the Consortium. This includes expenses such as a subvention to help run the annual conference (to which TEI members get a discount), a couple of crucial face-to-face meetings for the TEI Technical Council, the Rahtz Prize, and other expenses. The members of the TEI Technical Council and TEI Board of Directors are all volunteers elected directly by the TEI Consortium membership.
We would like to get your opinions concerning membership levels, fees, and activities of the consortium. Please fill in the form at: https://forms.gle/USoesRx9SztUqY1j7. The survey will close 1 March 2026.
(Although we ask for your email address this is solely to encourage you to fill it in only once. We will not spam you with results, they will be posted here.)
Election Results 2025
The results of the TEI Consortium 2025 Election were announced at TEI 2025 in Kraków. In 2025, TEI Members held an election to fill 3 open positions on the TEI Technical Council (3-year term). There was 1 open position on the TEI Board of Directors (3-year term). While many more people were nominated for both TEI-C Technical Council and TEI-C Board of Directors, those who agreed to stand for election were:
TEI-C Technical Council Slate:
- Helena Bermúdez Sabel
- Elli Bleeker
- Maria Fronczak
- Joanna Hałaczkiewicz
- Dario Kampkaspar
- Naoki Kokaze
- Stephan Kurz
- Patricia O'Connor
- Ariane Pinche
- Klaus Rettinghaus
- Yifan Wang
Elected: Helena Bermúdez Sabel, Elli Bleeker and Patricia O’Connor
TEI-C Board of Directors Slate:
- Dimitra Grigoriou
Elected: Dimitra Grigoriou (unopposed, no vote held)
The TEI Consortium thanks all of those who agreed to stand for being willing to donate time to the maintenance of the Consortium and its outputs like the TEI Guidelines. We encourage all those who were nominated to consider standing for election in upcoming years.
2025 Winners of the Rahtz Prize and Community Prize
The TEI Consortium is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity and the TEI Community Award.
The winner of the 2025 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity is LEAF-Writer by Susan Brown, James Cummings, Luciano Frizzera, Mihaela Ilovan, and Diane Jakacki. The Rahtz Prize committee found the LEAF-Writer project to be “remarkable for the careful and thorough development of software that anyone involved with TEI would deem necessary, yet no one had been able to develop before. Additionally, its integration with Linked Open Data is crucial for the progressive use of TEI data, and the fact that it facilitates this so seamlessly is truly innovative.”
The winner of the 2025 Community Prize is The Endings Project by Claire Carlin, Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, Janelle Jenstad, Elizabeth Grove-White, Corey Davis, John Durno, Lisa Goddard, J. Matthew Huculak, Martin Holmes, Stewart Arneil, Greg Newton, and Joey Takeda. The committee described The Endings Project as “one of the most significant contributions to scholarly digital publishing of the last decade, regularly mentioned in Digital Humanities venues supporting the longevity and preservation of DH projects. This project is distinguished by its extension of TEI values far beyond our community.”
This year’s Rahtz and Community Prize Committee consisted of Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Kiyonori Nagasaki, and Raffaele Viglianti.
Congratulations to this year's winners and sincere thanks to the wider TEI Community for your continued efforts to develop, maintain, and expand the TEI Guidelines.
Patch Release of the TEI Guidelines 4.10.2
On 4 September 2025, the TEI Consortium released a second small but significant “patch” of the TEI Guidelines as version 4.10.2, in order to address a bug in the content model of <speaker> element within <sp> when previously it had been optional. For details on the patch and ongoing work to simplify the content modeling, please see the tickets linked in the release notes below.
Martin Holmes and Syd Bauman were, once again, our release technicians, assisted by Helena Bermúdez Sabel, Hugh Cayless and Trish O'Connor. The release process was helped along by our ever-vigilant Council members and friends, with very special thanks to Carsten Milling for raising the ticket earlier this week alerting us to the problem.
As always, we rely on you all to report bugs and make feature requests for the Guidelines on GitHub at https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/issues and in our TEI Slack. Your input tells us what to work on, and we cannot do without it! You will find all of the TEI Consortium's software projects in our GitHub organization https://github.com/TEIC, where you can report issues and make feature requests. The latest release of the Guidelines is available from all the usual places, including the TEI website at https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html and the GitHub site at https://github.com/TEIC/TEI/releases/tag/P5_Release_4.10.2.
This patch (like the previous one) did not require a new release of the Stylesheets, so the current version of the Stylesheets remains 7.59.0. The Debian package has been updated at http://packages.tei-c.org/deb/, and the TEI Guidelines and the Stylesheets are available for download at https://sourceforge.net/projects/tei/files/.
The oXygen TEI plugin has been updated with the latest version as well. Here is an explanation of “How to automatically update your TEI framework in oXygen": https://github.com/TEIC/oxygen-tei/blob/master/oxygen-tei-plugin.md.
TEI P5 version 4.10.2 release notes
Release 4.10.2 is a patch release to fix a bug in the content model of sp. The patch is needed because in the 4.10.0 and 4.10.1 releases, the speaker element was inadvertently required as a child of sp, when previously it was not. (#2758, PR #2759 (not merged), and PR #2760). The release notes for release 4.10.0 have also been revised to include information about the change introduced to the content model of sp.
Note: patch releases do not have codenames.