Co-PIs, Professor Mary Chapman, English Language and Literatures with Sydney Lines, PhD Candidate
Associate Professor Katia Bowers with Braden Russell, PhD Candidate Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Lagresa-González, with Sarah Revilla-Sanchez, PhD Candidate, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
Assistant Professor Ramón (Arturo) Antonio Victoriano-Martinez with Daniel Orizaga Doguim, PhD Candidate, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies
The Adaptive TEI Network (ATN) brings together an interdisciplinary team of doctoral students, tenured faculty, and humanities researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in partnership with colleagues at Simon Fraser University’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (SFU DHIL). The ATN is a collaborative digital humanities initiative connecting graduate students at UBC who are integrating TEI-XML (Text Encoding Initiative) into their dissertation research. The project brings together scholars working with multilingual texts, marginalized subjects, and diverse primary materials ranging from archival texts to images and audio. DiSA provided the Network with a formal link to the Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL) at Simon Fraser University. The connection enabled cross-institutional collaboration, including access to collaborative repositories, specialized workshops, and connections to DHIL expertise.
This initiative will produce justice-oriented TEI guidelines for multilingual and marginalized texts to submit to the TEI Council, alongside four dissertation projects using TEI-XML to explore frontier nationalism, Gothic horrors in Mexico City, translanguage selfhood, and colonial documents. Students will present their work at the TEI 2026 conference hosted jointly at UBC/SFU, while developing shared technical infrastructure including a common ATN schema, collaborative processing templates for XPath and sentiment analysis, and GitHub repositories for project collaboration.
Community Building & Events
TEI Summer Sessions (June-August 2025)
-
- Cross-institutional workshops offered between UBC and SFU campuses
- 28 total registrants from UBC, SFU, and UVic
- Session 1: Critical Editing and Interpretation in TEI
- Session 2: Encoding Entities: People, Orgs, Time and Place
- Session 3: Encoding Language
TEI Fall Sessions (October-December 2025)
-
- Unstructured working sessions designed for hands-on practice
- Five sessions scheduled around student availability
- Focus on applying workshop knowledge to individual projects
TEI Sprint (November 2025)
-
- Closed working session with ATN students and technical lead Joey Takeda
- Data modeling exercises to identify research goals across projects
- Discovery that projects prioritize TEI as analytical tool (sentiment analysis, XPath) over digital display
- Resulted in plans for Spring 2026 XPath workshop and revised processing templates