2ⁿᵈ Exchange Meeting of SCOOP: International Network for Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources

Session

Working Group 5

Sep 8, 2026, 1:30 PM

University of Vienna

31. Integrating HTR into Digital Library Workflows

Jessie Dummer (University of Pennsylvania Libraries)

9/8/26, 1:30 PM

With the rapid improvement of handwritten text recognition models, large language models, and multimodal AI models, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is assessing how these technologies can be applied at scale across its handwritten collections. This presentation will focus on an emerging project to apply HTR to a group of fifteenth-century Italian manuscripts written in humanistic...

32. Manuscriptorium Full-Text Module: Building a Digital-Edition Infrastructure

Michael Lužný (National Library of the Czech Republic)

9/8/26, 1:50 PM

After several years of development, the transition to the new version of the Manuscriptorium digital library was completed last autumn. The development, however, is still ongoing – the most significant and recent part of which is the TEI-compatible full-text module. As a result, Manuscriptorium offers its users an alternative core that shifts the central perspective from visual representation...

33. Reviving the Legacy: How to Adapt the Latin Text Archive for the Age of AI

Tim Geelhaar (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)

9/8/26, 2:10 PM

The Latin Text Archive (LTA) is an online platform hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) since 2020 (https://LTA.bbaw.de). Its primary objective is to facilitate computer-assisted semantic analysis of Latin texts and corpora spanning various epochs and genres. Conceived as an open platform from its inception in the mid-2000s, it enables external editors and text providers...

30. HTR in the German Manuscript Centres: Current Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

Ursula Stampfer (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

9/8/26, 2:30 PM

The German Manuscript Centres have a long-standing tradition of developing standards, infrastructures, and services for the scholarly description and accessibility of medieval manuscripts. With the transition from printed catalogues to digital infrastructures such as Manuscripta Mediaevalia and, since 2023, the Handschriftenportal, digitisation has fundamentally expanded both the possibilities...