TEI-C Elections 2026

• Introduction

• A Note on Voting

• Candidate Statements: TEI Technical Council

  • Syd Bauman
  • Roman Bleier
  • Selina Galka
  • Dario Kampkaspar
  • Chiara Martignano
  • Elsa Pereira
  • Ariane Pinche
  • Torsten Roeder
  • Joey Takeda
  • Raffaele Viglianti
  • Yifan Wang

• Candidate Statements: TEI Board

  • Gimena del Rio Riande
  • Torsten Roeder
  • Christine Ruotolo

Introduction

In 2026, TEI Members will hold an election to fill 4 open positions on the TEI Technical Council (3-year term). There are 2 open positions on the TEI Board of Directors (3-year term).

The following people have been nominated and have agreed to stand as candidates for election to the TEI Technical Council and the TEI 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 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 on July 4, 2026 at 12:01 am EST.

Voting closes on August 4, 2026 at 11:59 pm EST.

Candidate Statements: TEI Technical Council

Syd Bauman

Affiliation: Northeastern University

Statement of purpose: Syd is heavily invested in ATOP, the new processor for converting ODD to usable schemas, and in fixing the current Stylesheets. He would also like to see progress in several other areas: “User-oriented” efforts, e.g., creating documentation, recommendations, and customizations for particular constituencies or user groups; improving the consistency of the Guidelines; 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 advice in using IIIF. He is also eager to see technical improvements to the Guidelines, e.g., further automated constraint checking, greater simplicity and expressivity in the ODD language, 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 the 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 has been an active member of the TEI Technical 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 ATOP task force; as a major contributor to the CMC chapter; 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.

Roman Bleier

Affiliation: University of Graz, Department of Digital Humanities

Statement of purpose: I am honored to stand as a candidate for the TEI Technical Council. Throughout my career in digital scholarly editing, the TEI Guidelines have been foundational to my work in modeling historical texts and data. I am looking forward to closer collaboration and contributing to future developments in the community. If elected my goal is to ensure the Guidelines remain practically applicable for research projects and sustainable editorial workflows. In particular, I am eager to collaborate closely with the Text & Graphics Special Interest Group (SIG). My current project editing Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae—a complex medieval work with an integrated genealogy and graphical structures—has highlighted the distinct challenges of encoding highly visual manuscripts. We include external images via IIIF. Annotated zones are stored in TEI documents, but the interoperability between IIIF and TEI could be better. I believe that the integration of image data, not only IIIF but also ATR data is an important topic. As part of the Technical Council, I can play a vital role in refining how the TEI Guidelines handle these multimodal realities. Having used the TEI for many years, I am looking forward to the opportunity to significantly contribute to the Council and to serve the wider TEI community.

Biography: I am currently a Principal Investigator for the digital scholarly editing project Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. I studied History and Religious Studies at the University of Graz, before completing my PhD at Trinity College, Dublin, with a thesis on a digital edition of Saint Patrick’s writings. I joined the Digital Humanities department at the University of Graz in May 2016, where I have worked on several projects, including the digital edition of the Imperial Diet of Regensburg of 1576. My research in recent years has focused on digital scholarly editing, digital history, and research data management. I am actively involved in international digital humanities networks, including the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE) and the Digital Medievalist, for which I served as a board member between 2017 and 2021.

Selina Galka

Affiliation: Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Statement of purpose: I am honoured to accept the nomination for the TEI Technical Council. As a Research Associate in the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz, I have been working with the TEI on a daily basis since 2017, both as an encoder and as a data modeller across a wide range of digital scholarly editing projects. Through this work, I have gained extensive practical experience in applying the TEI Guidelines to very different materials — from early modern manuscripts and ego-documents to twentieth-century diaries and performance records — and in confronting the modelling challenges that arise when the Guidelines meet the reality of historical sources. My research interest in data modelling in the humanities are directly relevant to questions the TEI community is facing: how to keep the Guidelines robust and interoperable while responding to new methods of text creation, enrichment, and analysis.

As a member of the Technical Council, I would like to contribute this hands-on editorial and modelling experience to the maintenance and further development of the Guidelines and the TEI infrastructure. I would also be glad to bring the perspective of an early-career researcher and of the German-speaking DH community to the Council's work. I would be delighted to serve the TEI community in this capacity.

Biography: Selina Galka is a Research Associate in the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz, Austria, where she is also pursuing a PhD in Digital Humanities with a dissertation on the digital edition of the memoirs of Countess Schwerin and studies and analysis related to it. She holds two master's degrees from the University of Graz: an MA in Digital Humanities and a joint MA in German Philology of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, as well as bachelor's degrees in German Studies and Musicology.

Since 2019, she has worked on a range of digital edition and digital humanities projects, including the Digital Edition of the Memoirs of Countess Schwerin, Giuseppe Tartini and his "School of Nations“ (ongoing), the Digital Edition of the Theatre Chronicles of Philipp Gumpenhuber, the Hyperdiplomatic Transcription Platform, and the digital edition of Karl Wiesinger's diaries, among others. Her research focuses on digital scholarly editing, data modelling, semantic web and the use of large language models in the humanities.

Dario Kampkaspar

Affiliation: University and State Library, Darmstadt, Germany

Statement of purpose: I am excited and honoured to be nominated to stand for the TEI Council and thus contribute to the future of the TEI. For me, this means that while I have certain key interests, I’ll concentrate on what is most needed within the council: the TEI and its bodies are a group effort! Over the past years and decades, the complexity of the TEI has increased continuously; there can be quite a learning curve, especially as there are often multiple ways of doing things. This is not a downside of the TEI but its strength as it enables its use in many different areas. But it might be helpful to more explicitly outline suggestions how phenomena could be addressed for certain use cases. Hence, one focus for me would be to work towards these kinds of suggestions (which would be a combination of a customization and an expanded documentation) so as to make the first steps in the TEI world easier and improve interoperability. By now, the model to describe a text’s meta data or the entities (in the broadest sense) related to it, has become very powerful. I would like to work towards a clear distinction of meta data and the actual text (be it transcribed or born digital). This will strengthen the value of the TEI in describing not only bibliographic meta data but also entities. Connected to both these efforts is my hope to be able to have a fresh look at many elements’ content models – or, more general, the class system – as there have been multiple changes over the past years that sometimes had unexpected consequences. This will be a long task – one that can be seen as a step on the road towards “P6” – but also help reduce complexity and thus make learning (and teaching) the TEI a lot easier. I hope that, if elected, I can contribute to the open, fair and inclusive community the TEI is.

Biography: Currently, I am the head of the Centre for Digital Editions at the University and State Library in Darmstadt, Germany. The projects I’m involved in span from in-depth scholarly editions to large corpora with only basic annotation (240 years of newspapers) and mass conversion of different formats to TEI. Also, I am actively contributing to the development of the framework for digital editions used in the library. My key interests are closely related to this background – the need to keep a large number of projects up and running while making sure that the markup is as consistent as possible. I hold a degree in (medieval and early modern) history and English linguistics and literature.

Chiara Martignano

Affiliation: Università di Padova

Statement of purpose: I am excited and honoured to be nominated to stand for the TEI Council and thus contribute to the future of the TEI. For me, this means that while I have certain key interests, I’ll concentrate on what is most needed within the council: the TEI and its bodies are a group effort! Over the past years and decades, the complexity of the TEI has increased continuously; there can be quite a learning curve, especially as there are often multiple ways of doing things. This is not a downside of the TEI but its strength as it enables its use in many different areas. But it might be helpful to more explicitly outline suggestions how phenomena could be addressed for certain use cases. Hence, one focus for me would be to work towards these kinds of suggestions (which would be a combination of a customization and an expanded documentation) so as to make the first steps in the TEI world easier and improve interoperability. By now, the model to describe a text’s meta data or the entities (in the broadest sense) related to it, has become very powerful. I would like to work towards a clear distinction of meta data and the actual text (be it transcribed or born digital). This will strengthen the value of the TEI in describing not only bibliographic meta data but also entities. Connected to both these efforts is my hope to be able to have a fresh look at many elements’ content models – or, more general, the class system – as there have been multiple changes over the past years that sometimes had unexpected consequences. This will be a long task – one that can be seen as a step on the road towards “P6” – but also help reduce complexity and thus make learning (and teaching) the TEI a lot easier. I hope that, if elected, I can contribute to the open, fair and inclusive community the TEI is. If elected, I intend to focus my efforts on two main goals: promoting the TEI as the standard for digital scholarly editing, and fostering cross-disciplinary education. In many traditional humanistic environments, TEI is still sometimes viewed with skepticism or perceived as a limiting, overly complex format. I intend to demonstrate the standard’s flexibility within the Council, building bridges with skeptical scholarly communities and promoting TEI as the foundational choice for sustainable and interoperable digital editions. Having organized and taught multiple workshops and seminars on digital philology, I am deeply committed to pedagogical outreach. I believe it is vital to promote the teaching of TEI and its underlying technologies across all humanities disciplines. To make the standard truly accessible to students, early-career researchers, and cultural institutions, I plan to contribute actively to maintaining the Guidelines, specifically dedicating myself to translating and localising TEI documentation into Italian. As a matter of fact, I am standing for election to the TEI Technical Council also to foster stronger links between the vibrant Italian Digital Humanities community and the TEI Consortium. Over the last decade, Italy has produced numerous projects in digital philology and text encoding. Despite this rich research tradition, the Italian community has historically lacked representation within the Technical Council. If elected, I aim to provide a voice for this active community, facilitating an international dialogue and encouraging closer collaboration between Southern European initiatives and the TEI.

Biography: I am a Research Fellow at the University of Padua (Italy), specialized in digital scholarly editing, textual data modelling, and web development. I hold a PhD in Philology and Textual Criticism from the University of Siena and a Master’s Degree in Digital Humanities from the University of Pisa. My extensive experience with XML/TEI standards began during my academic training and has been central to various digital edition projects in Italy. In particular, for over five years, I worked within the ERC European Ars Nova Project at the University of Florence, where I designed and implemented XML/TEI and XML/MEI encoding models for medieval poetry and music. I have also actively contributed to the development and enhancement of EVT (Edition Visualization Technology), an open-source, TEI-based viewing tool, focusing on the visualization of complex critical apparatuses and textual variations. Currently, I am part of the CoMByN project, where I am developing a digital synoptic edition. I am also an active coordinator within the VIDIT research initiative (“best practices” subgroup), focused on creating recommendations for visualization software tools for textual variation. Throughout my career, I have consistently promoted TEI standards through international conference presentations, peer-reviewed publications, and advanced training workshops.

Elsa Pereira

Affiliation: University of Porto, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, CITCEM

Statement of purpose: Coming from the Humanities rather than having a technical background, I am honored to have been nominated to stand for election to the TEI Technical Council. As a textual scholar with over 20 years of experience, I have been learning and applying the TEI-XML standard to digital scholarly editions of literary works for some time. Between 2018 and 2025, I have had the chance to design a syllabus for a course on digital scholarly editing, teaching the TEI-XML encoding standard to MA and PhD students in textual criticism. As a Portuguese native speaker, I take a particular interest in promoting and making the TEI guidelines available in languages other than English. If elected, I would like to help promote the guidelines among the community of 264 million Portuguese speakers and to support the members of the Council currently engaged with the TEI’s educational resources, collecting and translating teaching materials to support students in different stages of their learning path.

Biography: I am a textual scholar with a background in literary studies. After completing a Lic. (2003), a MA (2007), and a PhD (2013) in Romance Literature and Culture, I was a postdoctoral fellow (2014-2019) and a contracted researcher in textual scholarship (2019-2025). Since September 2025, I have been working at the University of Porto on a research project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. I am also a board member of the European Society for Textual Scholarship. Full CV: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/3F16-87B6-5794

Ariane Pinche

Affiliation: CNRS

Statement of purpose: First of all, I am deeply honored to be considered for a position on the TEI Technical Council. I am a medieval philologist at the CNRS, with a longstanding commitment to the digital representation of medieval texts. My engagement with TEI began during my early training on the Hyperdonat project, where I was an early adopter of ODD, using it both as a schema language and as a medium for documenting data modelling decisions. My doctoral research took the form of a critical digital edition of Li Seint Confessor by Wauchier de Denain, which involved encoding the physical structure of the manuscript BnF fr. 412, collating the manuscript tradition and enriching the text with linguistic annotations. I also integrated the CTS protocol to ensure compatibility with the CapiTainS ecosystem, with the aim of producing a rigorously documented and interoperable scholarly edition. From 2018 to 2021, I taught digital editing : XML-TEI, ODD, and XSLT at the École nationale des chartes, in the Master « Technologies numériques appliquées à l'histoire ». I remain deeply committed to knowledge transmission. I currently teach digital editing and automatic text recognition to early-career researchers and else, notably at the EnExDi Spring University and in various workshops. A central concern of my current research is the question of stratified editing for medieval texts: how TEI can support editorial workflows where multiple interpretive strata : from diplomatic transcription to normalised text, linguistic annotation, and apparatus criticus, coexist within a single document model, each remaining independently queryable while forming a coherent whole. Working with large hagiographic compilations transmitted across multiple manuscripts, I am currently developing a framework for organising the multiple textual realisations attested across a manuscript tradition bringing together edited text, individual witnesses, and the relationships between them thanks to the access to large witness corpora that automatic text recognition (ATR) now enables. This perspective also informs my work within the ATR, where I am exploring how the output of automatic handwriting recognition can be integrated into richer editorial structures without loss of provenance or interpretive transparency. If elected to the Technical Council, I would contribute to ongoing discussions on text encoding and the evolution of the TEI standard with this dual perspective in mind: that of a philologist working with complex manuscript traditions, and that of a researcher engaged in the responsible integration of automated tools into humanistic workflows. I would work to strengthen connections with the French-speaking community and the networks I am actively involved in, including Biblissima+ (research infrastructure devoted to the history of the transmission of ancient texts, from antiquity to the early modern period) and Humanistica (The French-Speaking Digital Humanities Association).

Biography: I am a chargée de recherche at the CNRS, working in medieval studies and digital humanities at CIHAM (UMR 5648) in Lyon. My primary area of research is the vernacular hagiographic tradition, with a particular focus on the mechanisms of compilation in Old French legendiers and on the circulation and reception of texts across manuscript communities. To explore these large and complex corpora, I have been involved in the development of automatic handwriting recognition models for medieval manuscripts, notably within the international CATMuS project (Consistent Approaches to Transcribing ManuScripts). This work has led me to reflect on a question I consider central to the future of digital philology: how the TEI standard can support stratified editorial workflows, from raw automatic transcription to enriched, stratified textual representations that accommodate multiple levels of interpretation, from the material to the linguistic to the stemmatic. My aim is to develop encoding practices that are at once philologically rigorous and computationally tractable.

Torsten Roeder

Affiliation: Universität Würzburg

Statement of purpose: I am seeking re-election to the TEI Technical Council for a second term. Serving on the Council over the past three years has been both rewarding and instructive, and I would welcome the opportunity to continue contributing to the technical development and future direction of the TEI. My work focuses on scholarly editing, digital heritage, and interoperable encoding frameworks. During my first term, I became increasingly interested in the foundational questions that will shape TEI P6 and future generations of the Guidelines. I would like to continue contributing to these discussions and help ensure that the TEI remains both technically robust and much more easily adaptable to old and new forms of cultural heritage. A particular focus of my work is the relationship between traditional textual scholarship and born-digital materials. As founder and convenor of the Computable Text and Media SIG, I am interested in exploring how TEI can provide conceptual and technical bridges between classical textual heritage and computationally generated or executable media. I also bring expertise in multimodal encoding environments through my work in the TEI Music SIG, where I have been involved in questions of representing non-textual and graphical notation and developing structures that facilitate interlinking across different media types. Beyond the Consortium, I actively promote TEI through workshops and presentations in both academic and non-academic contexts, including citizen-science initiatives and events such as the Chaos Communication Congress. I currently serve as the ISO liaison for the TEI Consortium and remain engaged with questions of sustainability, interoperability, and long-term preservation in particular through my engagement within the German National Research Data Infrastructure. If re-elected, I will continue to contribute actively to the Technical Council while fostering connections between TEI, related standards, and new communities of practice.

Biography: Torsten Roeder works at the Centre for Philology and Digitality at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is part of a research group that creates and curates digital scholarly edition projects, and he manages the Retro Computing Lab, a place for researching and teaching with born-digital heritage.

Joey Takeda

Affiliation: Simon Fraser University

Statement of purpose: I am thrilled to stand for re-election for TEI Technical Council. Since joining Council in January 2023, I have only become more convinced of the TEI's importance and the responsibility of being on Council—not only in the necessary work of maintaining the TEI standard, but ensuring that the TEI can continue to evolve and adapt to meet the needs of the community of users that rely on, think with, teach, and improve the TEI. Throughout my first term on Council, I have contributed to the ongoing technical work of Council through responding to issues to improve and refine P5, working through complex and challenging standardization challenges presented by the ODD system, and improving processing in the TEI Stylesheets. I chair the GIS Working Group, where we are developing new mechanisms for encoding including geographic data and standards in TEI. I have also worked alongside Raff Viglianti to spearhead the monthly TEI Community Calls, which has been an excellent venue for both discussing the current work of the TEI technical council and engaging with the TEI Community. What draws me to this work is much the same as what draws me to Council: the creative, theoretically complex, and thoughtful ways that researchers—across all skill levels and institutional locations—take up, use, modify, and challenge the TEI. This is precisely why I hope to serve another term. There are significant developments on the horizon for the TEI, and I want to continue addressing them in ways that recognize the wealth of expertise contained within the long history of TEI and in the community of users that support it. I would like to think carefully and critically about the TEI standard and associated infrastructure, taking stock of how well it serves the community, identifying what's missing, and formulating robust, sustainable infrastructures to ensure its long-term use and importance. Alongside the ongoing work of maintaining, documenting, and modernizing the TEI's codebase, I would like to support the specification of ODD in the hopes of developing more mechanisms for sharing and promoting digital editions and their customizations as first-class members in the scholarly ecosystem.

Biography: I am a Digital Humanities Developer, specializing in digital textual editing and TEI, at Simon Fraser University Library's Digital Humanities Innovation Lab where my work bridges technical development, digital scholarship support, and information management. SFU Library specializes in open scholarship and the digital humanities and, as such, has been supportive of the work that TEI Technical Council requires. Before coming to SFU, I received my BA in English at the University of Victoria (working on projects such as The Map of Early Modern London, Landscapes of Injustice, and The Endings Project) and my MA in English at the University of British Columbia (where I worked on The Winnifred Eaton Archive for which I continue to serve as the Technical Editor). I am also chairing the TEI 2026 conference (supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Connections Grant), co-hosted between the University of British Columbia and SFU.

Raffaele Viglianti

Affiliation: University of Maryland

Statement of purpose: My work on the Technical Council has focused on lowering barriers for TEI users: developing and maintaining Roma, a tool for editing TEI ODDs and customizations, and taking a global, multi-lingual perspective to TEI infrastructure and tooling. I care deeply about TEI's accessibility, and I have developed tools for editing and publishing TEI with low-cost,low-infrastructure requirements, such as the VSCode/Codium extension Scholarly XML (winner of the 2024 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity) and a family of tools around CETEIcean, a library for rendering TEI in the browser. This same commitment shapes how I contribute to Council discussions, where I help advance both the TEI Guidelines and the tools Council maintains. I take a practical stance and work toward common ground. As TEI weighs the challenges and opportunities posed by AI, and embarks on an initial foray into P6 development, I am eager to keep building on my expertise in Council culture and infrastructure. This is a crucial moment in the development of a future-proof TEI, and I would be honored to continue contributing to the Council’s work for another term.

Biography: Dr. Raffaele (Raff) Viglianti is a Senior Research Software Developer at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland. His research is grounded in digital humanities and textual scholarship, where “text” includes musical notation. He researches new and efficient practices to model and publish textual sources as innovative and sustainable digital scholarly resources. Dr. Viglianti is currently an elected member of the Text Encoding Initiative technical council (until Dec 2026) and the Technical Editor of the Scholarly Editing journal.

Yifan Wang

Affiliation: International Institute for Digital Humanities

Statement of purpose: Throughout my academic life, I have been always fascinated by “notation”, which includes writing, language, data, format, or their interactions. Then, working for years on ancient Buddhist texts, I become more and more interested in transmission and transformation of human knowledge across times, languages, and technologies, which is not unlike the recent movement from paper to digital data. For a TEI user who has learned linguistics, philology, translation, and programming—and perhaps most importantly, who was an XML kid in the middle school—I am honoured to have a chance to serve on and learn further from TEI, a digital and global infrastructure for the current and future humanities research. Leveraging my knowledge, I would commit myself to expanding usability and applicability of TEI, especially on better support of scripts, languages, and disciplines from East Asian, Indic, or other regional academic spheres in the Guidelines. I would find the way through discussion and coordination with the Initiative’s working groups, SIGs, as well as other experts and communities, local or technical, to knowing and fulfilling each own basic requirements in TEI. The Guidelines are already a vast accumulation of the common assets by past and current great contributors. I am ready to help, as a member familiar with the standard drafting process, enrich them to be even more universal by incorporating, and harmonizing with, previously unaccounted fields.

Biography: Currently, a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Digital Humanities. Recently received PhD in library and information sciences from the University of Tokyo with a thesis on building medieval Chinese character corpus, while my BA and MA degrees are in linguistics. My research interests are around written languages, informatics of scripts, and writing system studies. Involved for ten years in the SAT project (SAT Daizōkyō Text Database Committee), mainly working on digitalization of the Taishō Tripiṭaka (a compilation of Chinese Buddhist scriptures) and research of medieval character dictionaries. An active member in standardization processes: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 (as IRG expert) for ISO/IEC 10646 (Universal coded character set) and the Unicode Standard, ISO/TC 37 (as delegate and WG expert) for ISO 639 (ISO language code), ISO 21646, and related standards. Also a freelance translator and a L10N/i18n engineer mainly in the field of video games. Academic activities: “Design of Document Repository Management System Based on Graph Database” (2018; awarded IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Student Award), “What Are We Calling ‘Latin Script’? Name and Reality in the Grammatological Terminology” (2019), “慧琳撰『一切経音義』の符号化をめぐって [On the encoding of Huilin’s Yiqiejing Yinyi]” (2019), “Xu Yiqiejing Yinyi and Issues on TEI Markup of Chinese Literature” (2021; awarded Jinmoncom 2021 Student Award), “『續一切経音義』を通じた外字と割注の課題 [Problems on gaiji and warichū as seen in Xu Yiqiejing Yinyi]” (2022; in: ISBN 978-4-90-965884-5) Standardization activities: “On Encoding Policy of Gongche Notations and Upcoming Para-ideographs” (2019), “Proposal to Encode 20 Additional Kanbun Marks” (2021), “Proposed Updates and Expansions of Unihan Numeric Fields” (2022), “SAT Submission for the IRG Working Set 2024” (2024)

Candidate Statements: TEI Board

Gimena del Rio Riande

Affiliation: CONICET, Argentina

Statement of purpose: I have been part of the TEI community for more than fifteen years. During this time, as a scholar and later as member of the TEI-C Board of Directors, I have advanced various initiatives for the Spanish-speaking TEI community, mainly in Latin America. If elected to the TEI-C Board of Directors for this term, I would like to focus on continuing to engage the Spanish-speaking community and expanding these initiatives in my region through a “minimal and sustainable TEI infrastructures” approach, making TEI accessible regardless of available resources. Many Latin American scholars struggle to publish and maintain their digital editions or TEI projects. Moreover, many institutions lack the infrastructure needed for complex digital projects. I am interested in producing best-practice guides for low-cost TEI publication, showcasing lightweight TEI workflows using GitHub Pages, CETEIcean, Jekyll, etc., and static-site generators, as well as automatic TEI encoding with lightweight LLMs. The main goal and deliverable for the Board would be the creation of a "TEI Minimal Computing Toolkit" in Spanish (and English). Since the TEI 2024 conference, Clayton McCarl and I have run a TEI in Spanish mailing list, which we could use to amplify these initiatives, in addition to presentations at the TEI annual Conference and other events related to Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarly Editing, as well as through my work as part of the Board of Directors.

Biography: I am a literary scholar who works as Associate Professor at Universidad del Salvador (USAL) and Senior Researcher at the National Council for Research (CONICET) in Argentina, where I coordinate the activities of a Digital Humanities lab (HD LAB). I am interested in community building and advocacy for multilingual Digital Humanities. For more than a decade, I have aimed at training new generations of scholars through certificates, workshops, courses, and open educational initiatives focused on XML-TEI and digital scholarly editing. I have also promoted open-source and minimal computing approaches to increase access to TEI-based methodologies in Latin America. I also organized TEI 2024 in Buenos Aires—the first TEI Conference ever held in a Spanish-speaking country—with the intention to contribute to strengthening the global TEI community.

Torsten Roeder

Affiliation: Universität Würzburg

Statement of purpose: I am seeking election to the TEI Board because I would like to contribute not only to the technical development of the TEI, but also to its long-term strategic direction, outreach, and sustainability. My work focuses on scholarly editing, digital heritage, and interoperable encoding frameworks. Over the past years, I have become increasingly interested in how the TEI can continue to evolve while remaining a stable and sustainable foundation for both established and emerging forms of cultural heritage. A particular focus of my work is building connections across communities. As founder and convenor of the Computable Text and Media SIG, I explore conceptual bridges between traditional textual scholarship and born-digital materials. Through my work in the TEI Music SIG, I have also been involved in questions of multimodal encoding and interoperability across different forms of notation and media. Beyond the Consortium, I actively promote TEI through workshops and presentations in both academic and non-academic contexts, including citizen-science initiatives and events such as the Chaos Communication Congress. I currently serve as the ISO liaison for the TEI Consortium and remain engaged with questions of sustainability, interoperability, and long-term preservation through my work within the German National Research Data Infrastructure. My work has also enabled me to build an extensive international and intercultural network across academic, cultural heritage, and technical communities, which I would be eager to contribute to the Board's activities. If elected to the Board, I hope to strengthen collaboration across communities, foster strategic partnerships, and help ensure that the TEI continues to grow as an open, sustainable, and internationally relevant standard.

Biography: Torsten Roeder works at the Centre for Philology and Digitality at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is part of a research group that creates and curates digital scholarly edition projects, and he manages the Retro Computing Lab, a place for researching and teaching with born-digital heritage.

Christine Ruotolo

Affiliation: University of Virginia Library

Statement of purpose: I am grateful to be nominated to stand for the TEI Board and would appreciate the opportunity to help support and strengthen the Consortium. I have worked with TEI for over three decades as an encoder, instructor, and administrator, on institutional and individual projects.. At the start of my career, large research libraries were key stakeholders in the TEI -- creating publicly available collections, developing library-friendly standardized schemas, and providing crucial support for the Consortium through dues payments and service roles. While financial and staffing pressures have prompted some institutions to pivot away from support for TEI collection building and instruction, I believe that re-engaging these communities will be important for the long-term sustainability of the TEI Consortium, and for developing the next generation of TEI practitioners. My specific interest is in leveraging the under-utilized legacy collections of TEI-encoded texts held by many institutions, including my own, and looking for ways to adapt and repurpose them as classroom-friendly OER or online learning objects; the Literature in Context open literary anthology, a project I have worked on for the past 8 years, is an example of this work. I am also the convener of the newly formed AI Tools for TEI SIG, which will I hope will establish best practices and benchmarks for the use of AI tools/LLMs in creating, enhancing, and analyzing TEI text.

Biography: Christine Ruotolo is the Director of Research in the Arts & Humanities at the University of Virginia Library, where she leads a team of subject specialists in developing services to support new modes of research and teaching. Prior to her current role, she served as Associate Director of the University of Virginia Library’s Electronic Text Center, where she was responsible for developing open online collections in TEI. She served on the TEI Board of Directors as Secretary/Webmaster from 2005-2010, and oversaw the redesign and migration of the TEI website during that period. She also chaired the TEI-C SGML to XML Migration Task Force. She has taught numerous workshops on TEI, XML, XSLT, and related topics for the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Amigos library consortium, and Rare Book School.

Call For TEI2028 Conference Host

The Consortium of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI-C) is seeking potential hosts for the TEI 2028 Conference. The TEI-C is a vibrant international consortium which develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form for the TEI community. As you probably know, its chief deliverable is a set of Guidelines which specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics. In addition to the Guidelines themselves, the Consortium provides a variety of resources for learning TEI, information on projects using the TEI, software developed for or adapted to the TEI, and runs an international conference with an annual general meeting.

The annual TEI Consortium Conference is usually held sometime in the months of August to November and brings together members of and contributors to the TEI community to share research, teach workshops, showcase tools and techniques as well as provide a report of the state of the TEI-C as part of the Annual General Meeting.

We are now seeking applications to host the TEI 2028 conference. (The hosts for TEI 2027 have already been decided and will be announced at TEI 2026 in Vancouver.)

The TEI-C attempts to ensure that the annual meeting is held in a variety of locations reflecting the international distribution of TEI members and TEI-related activities, with particular interest in institutions that have not previously hosted a TEI Conference and Members’ Meeting. As the TEI community continues to grow globally, the TEI-C is committed to inclusivity. We are also committed to supporting conference settings that are safe and welcoming to all.

Local organizers at the host institution(s) are responsible for providing facilities for all conference-related activities, including pre-conference workshops and SIG meetings, developing the conference web site, producing a collection of abstracts, organizing a conference dinner, and coordinating appropriate social events. The TEI-C Conference attracts approximately 100-150 participants and spans 3-4 days, depending on the proposals submitted. The entire event not only includes the conference sessions, but the TEI-C Technical Council often meets for 2-3 days before the conference, the TEI-C Board has a meeting during the conference, there are usually pre-conference workshops, special interest group meetings, and some conferences have included optional additional social events.

The conference is financed entirely through conference registration fees, a subvention of up to $7,000 USD from the TEI-C, and any contributions that the Local Conference Organising Committee is able to obtain from sponsors.

To apply to host the conference, please submit an initial expression of interest to chair@tei-c.org by the end of Friday 7 August 2026. This email should include just basic information about the host, local organisers, potential venue, and suggested dates all of which are considered tentative. If the expression of interest is accepted, only then you will then be asked to prepare and submit a fuller descriptive application to host the conference to a deadline that suits both prospective organisers and TEI-C. This more detailed host application requires thorough logistical, timing, fiscal details, social attractions, and other information from the prospective meeting host(s) to enable the TEI-C Board of Directors to fully review the proposal with special emphasis on:

• the level of support and underwriting (financial and logistical) the institution can offer to ensure the success of the meeting;
• the venue itself and its suitability for a meeting of this size and type;
• the possibilities of hybrid virtual participation or recording of sessions;
• the kinds of support the organizers can draw upon locally to ensure the logistical success of the meeting.

Conference hosts are expected to abide by and help facilitate the TEI-C Code of Conduct at https://tei-c.org/about/code-of-conduct/.

Additional information about conference expectations and requirements, including detailed information about the application process can be found at: http://members.tei-c.org/hosting.

Prospective hosts are invited to discuss their plans informally with any members of the TEI-C Board of Directors https://tei-c.org/about/board-of-directors/ before submitting an application. Any questions not covered by the hosting page http://members.tei-c.org/hosting may also be sent to chair@tei-c.org.

Initial expressions of interest are due by Friday 7 August 2026 and will be reviewed by the members of the TEI-C Board of Directors.

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.