2nd Exchange Meeting, Vienna, September 7-9. 2026
SCOOP (Source Codes of the Past) is an international network dedicated to the automatic transcription and analysis of handwritten historical sources. It brings together people from very different corners of the scholarly world: historians, philologists, and palaeographers, archivists and librarians; computer scientists and machine learning researchers; software engineers asf. What unites them is a shared challenge: how to use automatic/handwritten text recognition (ATR/HTR) to unlock the vast written heritage of the past, and how to do it well. (Read more about SCOOP.)
After a first smaller meeting at Princeton in June of 2025 (for more information see https://fsp-text-edition-blog.univie.ac.at/?p=128), the second SCOOP Exchange Meeting is taking place in Vienna on 7–9 September 2026 hosted by the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Faculty for Cultural Historical Studies at the University of Vienna.
Over three days, it will bring together around a hundred members of the network for keynotes, parallel working group sessions, round tables, demonstrations, and open discussion formats, along with: as well as an internal working day devoted to the future of SCOOP:
September 7–8: Part of the conference open to registered external visitors
September 9: A dedicated internal working session for SCOOP members
September 10 (Associated Event): The OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-represented and Under-resourced Languages organized by Alíz Horváth - If you wish to join or present, please contact Alíz Horváth (HorvathA@ceu.edu).