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.
- Makes p5subset.xml valid against p5odds.rng by turning <biblStruct>s into <bibl>s.
- #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)
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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?
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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.