TEI 2026
Creating Connections, Unsettling Practices
August 10-14, 2026
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Registration and Coffee Day 2 Location: BUCH Tower 323 |
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| 8:30am - 10:15am |
Opening Plenary: Jon Corbett Location: BUCH A202 Chair: Emily Murphy, University of British Columbia Okanagan Weaving Data with Spirit Markers and Spirit Berries: Indigitalizing Computational Models for Cultural Encoding |
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| 10:30am - 12:15pm |
A1 Long Papers: TEI Futures Location: BUCH B208 Chair: Raff Viglianti, University of Maryland Long Paper Commentary as Infrastructure: The Algorithmic Afterlives of TEI Annotation Aarhus University, Denmark Long Paper Can a Small Language Model Apply XML Stack Tools to Support TEI projects? Experimenting with a Local AI Agentic System and Model Context Protocol (MCP) Penn State Erie, United States of America Long Paper A real class hierarchy for P6 ODDs University of Victoria, Canada |
B1 Long Papers: Reflections on TEI Standards and Models Location: BUCH B210 Chair: Janelle Jenstad Long Paper Digital Editions as Authority Databases. TEI Publisher and the Reconciliation API Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany Long Paper 11 years, what do you get? How applying the TEI Processing Model reflects back on TEI 1: e-editiones; 2: Jinntec Long Paper TEI Beyond TEI Unaffiliated, United States of America |
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| 12:15pm - 1:45pm |
Lunch Day 2: Catered Working Groups 1 -- Open Topics Location: BUCH Tower 323 |
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| 1:45pm - 3:15pm |
Information Session: The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Location: Koerner 5th floor common area |
Poster Session Lightning Talks Location: Koerner 5th floor common area Chair: Syd Bauman, Northeastern University Poster “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” or, “William” is not a person or, the three TEIs Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Poster A Taxonomy for Textual Variation: Updates from the VIDIT Working Group 1: Huygens Institute; 2: University Of Nebraska–Lincoln; 3: Università di Parma; 4: Ca' Foscari University of Venice; 5: Universität Wien; 6: Freie Universität Berlin; 7: Università di Torino Poster From Image to Text: Encoding the (Dis)appearance of Missing and Murdered Women in the Streets of Mexico University of British Columbia, Canada Poster Longevity Chats in XML-TEI for Medical Corpus Analysis University of Rostock, Germany Poster Mapping correspondence editions: a preliminary look at the themes, methods, and work practices of a global DH community Rutgers University, United States of America Poster Modeling Japanese Social Media with TEI CMC: Integrating Microblogging and Messaging in BCCWJ2 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan Poster Modular, reusable, sustainable and community-oriented edition workflows with TEI Publisher 1: e-editiones; 2: Jinntec Poster Siddhaṃ into TEI: Recording Indic and East Asian Complexities 1: International Institute for Digital Humanities; 2: Keio University; 3: Musashino University Late-breaking Poster <l>10 PRINT"Why Code Is Nothing Less Than Sweetest Poetry"</l>: Computable Texts, Verse Structures, and the Limits of TEI Semantics University of Wuerzburg, Germany Late-breaking Poster A Massive Language Code Expansion Is Coming! 1: International Institute for Digital Humanities; 2: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan Late-breaking Poster At the junction of the two orientations: TEI for the Arabic inspired by Yoan Udagawa Okayama University, Japan Late-breaking Poster Date Normalisation at Semantic Document Boundaries: LLM Capabilities and Limits in Historical TEI Encoding 1: National Museum of Japanese History, Japan; 2: Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo, Japan Late-breaking Poster From Rare Materials Digitization to TEI Practice: Building a Text Encoding Learning and Practice Environment at Keio University Keio University, Japan Late-breaking Poster Making of TEI Digital Scholarly Editions of Coptic Apocrypha: Case Studies on the Apocalypse of Elijah and the Gospel of Judas 1: University of Tsukuba, Japan; 2: Tsukuba Institute of Advanced Research, Japan Late-breaking Poster Og(h)am: Harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st. Maynooth University, Ireland Late-breaking Poster StandOff and Ethnographically Coded Oral History Interviews Burnaby Village Museum, Canada Late-breaking Poster TEI Semantics for Web Inclusion University of Maryland, United States of America Late-breaking Poster TEI-compliant Markup Method for Waka Poetic Vocabulary: A Case Study of Shōji Godo Hyakushu Keio University, Japan Late-breaking Poster Unsettling Manual Encoding and Creating Connections in Historical Natural History Texts: LLM-Assisted Entity Annotation in a TEI Edition of Eighteenth-Century Texts Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Germany |
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| 3:15pm - 3:30pm |
Coffee Day 2 Location: Koerner 5th floor common area |
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| 3:30pm - 4:30pm |
Shakespeare First Folio XR Demo Dr. Patrick Parra Pennefather will present on Shakespeare xR, a digitization and interactive media technologies project created for UBC's First Solio (acquired in 2022) and developed at the Emerging Media Lab in partnership with UBC Rare Books and Special Collections and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Attendees may have the chance to interact with Shakespeare xR on a touch table. |
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| 3:30pm - 6:30pm |
Registered Workshop 1: Low-cost, low-infrastructure, low-threshold strategies for authoring and publishing TEI (and friends) Location: BUCH B208 Workshop Low-cost, low-infrastructure, low-threshold strategies for authoring and publishing TEI (and friends) 1: Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities; 2: University of Wuerzburg, Germany |
Registered Workshop 2: LEAF Commons Tool Suite Location: BUCH B303 Workshop The LEAF Commons Tool Suite 1: Newcastle University (United Kingdom); 2: University of Guelph (Canada); 3: Bucknell University (USA); 4: University of Alberta (Canada); 5: University of Waterloo (Canada) |
Registered Workshop 3: Schematron in ODD Location: BUCH B210 Workshop Schematron in ODD Northeastern University, United States of America |
| 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
Day 2 Dinner: No host, optional Dine Around |
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