TEI Technical Council Teleconference, 2026-01-14

06:00 – 07:30 PST | 09:00 – 10:30 EST | 14:00 – 15:30 UTC | 15:00 – 16:30 CET

Present:

• Syd Bauman (SB)
• Helena Bermúdez Sabel (HBS)
• Elisa Beshero-Bondar (EBB, Chair)
• Elli Bleeker (EB)
• Ulrike Henny-Krahmer (UHK)
• Martin Holmes (MH)
• Patricia O'Connor (TOC) — until 15:01Z
• Torsten Roeder (TR)
• Martina Scholger (MS) for 1st ~15 min
• Joey Takeda (JT)
• Raff Viglianti (RV) — until 15:14Z

When are we holding monthly Council and Stylesheets calls?

• Council decision: Move monthly meeting to same time block (currently 14:00–15:30, but may change by 1 hour due to DST) on Mondays (2nd Monday of the month).
• Next Council meeting: 9th February. 06:00 – 07:30 PST | 09:00 – 10:30 EST | 14:00 – 15:30 UTC | 15:00 – 16:30 CET
• Stylesheets calls to be determined (poll circulated)

Review/assignment of newly opened tickets on Guidelines and Stylesheets

• All tickets claimed.

PRs ready for merging

• #2788: Closes our oldest open issue, #869
  • Make the Tite schema align with its prose.
  • Merged & closed last night — SB
• #2844: Closes #2459
  • makes <address> part of att.canonical and att.typed
  • adds a special @role attribute
  • Review the lists of sample & suggested values for @role and @type
    • SB and JT to complete by tweaking attribute values, and then merge.
• #2861: Closes #2860
  • Makes <entryFree> nestable, and also available inside <entry>. Merged and ticket closed.
• #2833: Closes #2832
  • Makes p5subset.xml valid against p5odds.rng by turning <biblStruct>s into <bibl>s.
    • Reviewed and merged.
• #2839: Closes #2838
  • Require one and only one of the referring attributes on <dataRef>.
  • PR merged, the requirement for a test has been added to ticket #2838 by MH.
• #2836: Closes #2649
  • Add missing biblio item.
  • Reviewed and merged, issue 2649 closed.
• #2817: Does NOT close #2317
  • Allow <app> as sole child of <sp>.
  • Action on TR: Need to update the prose of the Guidelines!
• #2834: no associated issue
  • Updates to an example.
  • Reviewed and merged

Sp F2F @ Würzburg

• Tue March 10 – Fri March 13 (midday)
• Dates fixed.

4.11 Release

• Release team: TR, HBS, TOC
• Release date: Wed. February 18.
  • Refrigerate: Wed. February 11
  • Freeze: Sunday February 15

* Action on EBB and MH to check in with HC and #infrastructure channel in Slack by next week re ny changes re HumaNum, keys to work with, etc.
* Any changes will be announced on Slack and TEI council email list.

Proposed AI Tools for TEI SIG:

• See email Dec 12 from Christine Ruotolo

JT: TEI 2026 Conference update

• Dates: Mon 10 Aug – Fri 14 Aug 26.
• CFP coming soon!
• Program committee co-chairs: Emily Murphy and JT
• SIG convening

TEI Technical Contributor Program update (EB / TOC)

• Syllabus

• Guide

• Action on Everyone: Read the syllabus, and provide comments by 1 week prior this (Jan 2026) Council Call

  • Any topics that are not covered?
  • Any topics that need to be covered in greater detail (specifically Customisation & Testing - if anyone is more comfortable with breaking down these topics please feel free to expand those lesson outlines)
  • Any online resources/tutorials/slides that you’d like to include for specific topics?

• Action on Council, by February meeting: Council should decide whether to approve the curriculum on review

  • Work on details of events
  • Should there be video call events scheduled?
  • How much can learning activity can be asynchronous?
  • Begin deciding on Implementation / delivery next month

Followup re TBE survey results (EB)

• Would TBE be useful in the TEI Technical Contributor program?
  • Let's try not to mix those new to TEI with the more challenging technical program
• Should Council curate these results as a working paper?

Overview of actions for council members

• Action on TR: update the prose of the Guidelines re: #2817
• Action on EBB and MH: to check in with HC and #infrastructure channel in Slack to pave the way for the next release (Feb 18).
• Action on Everyone: Read the TCP syllabus, and provide comments by February 2. Curriculum should be approved by February 9 council meeting.