Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity
About the Rahtz Prize
The TEI Consortium has created the Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity in memory of Sebastian Rahtz (13 February 1955 – 15 March 2016). The award is intended to honour Sebastian’s major technical and philosophical contributions to the TEI, and to encourage TEI innovation by the TEI community. Sebastian was responsible for the design and implementation of a great deal of the TEI's technical infrastructure. Within the TEI community he was best known for the creation and maintenance of the XSLT Stylesheets that underlie much TEI conversion work, customization, and schema generation. As a member of both the TEI's Technical Council and its Board, he helped shape the direction of the Consortium. The Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity is awarded to an individual or team judged to have made a significant contribution to the TEI-C's mission in particular by means of non-commercial/openly-available projects or initiatives. Many members of the TEI Community are engaged in exploring new ways of implementing and expanding the coverage of the TEI system. It is hoped that this Prize will not only recognize excellent work already completed, but also encourage new projects and fresh approaches.
Important Info and Dates
While the Board of Directors may alter these details in any given year (see below changes for 2024), the expected timeline for the award is as follows:
- April: Nominations Due
- June: Submissions Due
- by Annual Business Meeting: Recipient Announced
Nomination and Submission Process
The recipient(s) of the 2024 award will receive $1,000 USD or equivalent.
The TEI community is encouraged to nominate prospective candidates for the Rahtz Prize. Self-submissions will also be accepted. You do not have to be a member of the TEI-C to make a nomination or submission. The project/work nominated or submitted does not have to be from 2024.
Nominations and self-submissions should only be submitted through this form
The form will allow both, nominations of other people’s projects and submissions of your own projects. Nominators and submitters will be asked to provide their name and contact details for the record and to ensure they are not robots. These data will not be published or otherwise shared, and will only be used for running the award process. Nominations and self-submissions are due 1 August 2024 by midnight Hawaii/Aleutian Standard Time (HAST). Nominees will be contacted by the committee by 15 August and asked to submit their materials by 1 September 2024.
The Rahtz Prize winner will be announced in October at the TEI AGM at the annual conference.
Along with contact information, nominees and submitters will be asked to provide a 500-1,500 summary describing the project/initiative. This summary should reflect the TEI-C's mission and the criteria as outlined below.
Eligibility
- Individuals or teams are eligible to apply.
- Membership of the TEI-Consortium is not a requirement.
- The project under review should point to external documentation or have a web presence.
- The project should not be a commercial product or service.
Review Process and Criteria
Submissions will be reviewed by an Awards Panel comprising the Chair of the TEI-C Board of Directors and the Chair of the TEI-C Technical Council (or their designated representatives), and one invited, active member of the TEI Community. No member of the Awards Panel may serve more than four consecutive years. Submissions should demonstrate that the person or team has made an outstanding contribution to one or more of the following:
- innovative development of the TEI Guidelines
- creation of TEI-aware tools and technologies that further dissemination, adoption, and engaged use of the TEI Guidelines
- expansive and inclusive TEI training and outreach opportunities
- informed development and cultivation of particular TEI practitioner communities
Having received previous Rahtz Prizes does not invalidate submissions, but will be a factor for consideration by the Awards Panel. The Awards Panel is not required to make an award in every year.
Terms
The final selection is made by the Awards Panel and announced as part of the Business Meeting, which occurs as part of the annual TEI-C Conference and Members' Meeting. The disbursement of the cash award is arranged through the TEI-C Treasurer. The recipient(s) will receive a cash award of $1,000 USD, or a round number of about the same value in the currency in which the prize is to be awarded.
Past Recipients
2023
No award.
2022
TEI Rahtz Prize to Frank Fischer, Peer Trilcke, Julia Jennifer Beine, Carsten Milling, Ingo Börner, Mathias Göbel, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje, Evgeniya Ustinova, Daniil Skorinkin, and Mark Schwindt for DraCor – Drama Corpora
TEI Community Prize to Kiyonori Nagasaki for TEI encoding in East Asian Buddhism texts / Japanese texts
2021
TEI Rahtz Prize to David Lassner for Standoff Converter
TEI Community Prize for e-editiones (Board of e-editiones)
2020
TEI Rahtz Prize to the DARIAH Working Group on Lexical Resources: Piotr Banski, Jack Bowers, Jesse de Does, Katrien Depuydt, Tomaž Erjavec, Alexander Geyken, Axel Herold, Vera Hildenbrandt, Mohamed Khemakhem, Snežana Petrović, Laurent Romary, Ana Salgado, Toma Tasovac, Andreas Witt for TEI Lex-0
TEI Community Prize to Susanna Allés Torrent, Gimena del Rio Riande, and Gabriel Calarco for TTHub. Text Technologies Hub
2019
TEI Rahtz Prize to John Walsh, Grant Simpson, and Saeed Moaddeli for TEI Boilerplate
2018
TEI Rahtz Prize to Stefan Dumont, Sascha Grabsch, Marcel Illetschko, Jonas Müller-Laackman, Sabine Seifert, and Peter Stadler for correspDesc, CMIF & correspSearch
Honorable mention to Wolfgang Meier and Magdalena Turska for TEI Publisher
2017
TEI Rahtz Prize to Raffaele Viglianti for coreBuilder
Honorable mention to Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Chiara Di Pietro, Chiara Martignano, Giulia Cacioli, Raffaele Masotti for Edition Visualization Technology (EVT)