General

TAPAS will have a significant scheduled service outage starting in January 2025. The TAPAS technical development team at Northeastern University has been working for several years on a major overhaul of TAPAS, with an emphasis on security, accessibility, and improving the user experience. The bad news is that we need to remove several technical dependencies, and in particular we have a hard deadline for upgrading the site’s current platform, which is reaching its end of life by January 2025. It will not be possible to complete the overhaul by then, so TAPAS will be offline for a period of time in early 2025. We will work hard to ensure that this downtime is as brief as possible, but it will be a few months. The good news is that once we're done, the relaunched TAPAS will include all of the features you have come to love, with significant improvements.

TAPAS is happy to report that Anne Baillot will be joining the TAPAS advisory board as an elected member in January. We would also like to offer our thanks to members who will be leaving our board this January. Thank you Karen Bourrier, Mark Caprio, Anna Kijas, Caitlin Pollock, and Judith Siefring for your generous service on this group. We’re really grateful for your contribution and advice! The advisory board now includes:

The nominations for the inaugural TAPAS Advisory board are in!

Are you looking to become more active within the TEI community? Do you have an interest in helping to shape the technologies our community uses for preserving, publishing, and researching the TEI? Consider nominating yourself, or an interested colleague, for a position on the TAPAS Advisory Board!