Tue Jun 03 2025

Rahtz Prize for Ingenuity 2025 — Call for nominations and self-submissions

The TEI Consortium created the Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity in memory of Sebastian Rahtz, who contributed significantly to the TEI infrastructure. The award is intended to honour Sebastian’s noteworthy technical and philosophical contributions to the TEI, and to encourage innovation in the TEI community. 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 encoding system. It is hoped that the Rahtz Prize will not only recognize excellent work already completed, but through its celebration and dissemination of nominated works also encourage new projects and fresh approaches. The recipient(s) of the 2025 award will receive $1,000 USD or equivalent.

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 These data will not be published or otherwise shared, and will only be used for running the award process.

Timeline for the 2025 Rahtz Prize:

  • Nominations and self-submissions are due 30 June 2025 by midnight Hawaii/Aleutian Standard Time (HAST).
  • Nominees will be contacted by the committee by 1 July 2025 and asked to submit their materials by 11 July 2025.
  • Pending the Awards Panel decision in favor of a winner for 2025, the Rahtz Prize will be awarded at the Annual General Meeting during the TEI 2025 conference in September or at the latest, by 31 December 2025.

For more information about the Rahtz Prize, including the nomination and application process, consult: https://tei-c.org/activities/rahtz-prize-for-tei-ingenuity.

Members of the 2025 Awards Panel are Elisa Beshero-Bondar (TEI Technical Council), Raffaele Viglianti (TEI Technical Council and past Rahtz Prize winner) and Kiyonori Nagasaki (Keio University and past Rahtz Prize winner).