This year conference theme focuses on the concept of linked text encoding to encourage reflections on the semantics of the TEI conceptual model but also to contextualise the TEI within a framework of interconnected digital resources. The opening keynote speaker will be Allen Renear, professor and interim Dean at GSLIS (the Graduate Schools of Library and Information Science, University if Illinois, USA) where he teaches courses and leads research in information modeling, data curation, and digital publishing. Allen’s talk will bring an insightful perspective on the conference theme given the focus of his current research on the development of formal ontologies for scientific and cultural objects, and the exploitation of those ontologies in data curation, scientific publishing and information system design. The other keynote will be given by Marie-Luce Demonet, professor of French Renaissance literature and head of CESR  Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, University of Tours, France) who will bring the perspective of a literary scholar to the use of TEI, as well as some reflections on recent debates amongst the community of authors of critical editions in France and beyond.