BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCOOP: Source Codes of the Past: Launching an international ATR/HT R Network for Manuscript Analysis DTSTART:20250612T130000Z DTEND:20250613T223000Z UID:https://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/06/scoop-source-codes-of-the-pas t-launching-an-international-atrhtr-network-for-manuscript-analysis/ DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n \n \n This workshop is by invitation o nly. For more information\, please get in touch with croughan@princeton.ed u\, hreimitz@princeton.edu\, or lucia.waldschuetz@princeton.edu.\n \n\n \n\n Organized by:Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)\, PrincetonCenter fo r Digital Humanities (CDH)\, Princeton UniversityManuscripts\, Rare Books\ , and Archival Studies (MARBAS)\, Princeton UniversityHumanities Initiativ e\, Princeton UniversityDigital Lab\, Institute for Medieval Research (IMA FO)\, Austrian Academy of SciencesWhile recent years have seen many signif icant developments in ATR/HTR (automatic text recognition\, handwritten te xt recognition)\, there remains work to be done when adapting these techno logies for different scripts\, textual traditions\, and manuscript structu res – and especially so for low-resource languages and materials. Additi onally\, the integrations of ATR with dataset curation\, text re-use analy sis\, editorial workflow automation\, and other methodologies are transfor ming the way researchers engage with manuscript sources. This workshop wil l bring together humanities/social science scholars\, software engineers\, and machine learning researchers so that technological and humanistic exp ertise might mutually inform one another. The workshop will also lay the g roundwork and define the agenda for a second SCOOP exchange meeting in Vie nna in the summer of 2026\, to be hosted by the Austrian Academy of Scienc es and the University of Vienna.Sponsored by:Center for Collaborative Hist ory\, Princeton UniversityDepartment of Classics\, Princeton UniversitySee ger Center for Hellenic Studies\, Princeton University\, with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic FundProgram in Medieval Studies\, Prince ton UniversityCommittee for the Study of Late Antiquity\, Princeton Univer sity\n\n\n\n \n \n Program Schedule\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thursday\, June 12th\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9:15 - 10:30\n \n Session 1a: HTR Technology DevelopmentModerator: Martin Roček (Charles University\, Prague\, Institute for Medieval Research\, Austrian Academy o f Sciences\, Vienna)Tobias Hodel (University of Bern) “Building General Models: Approaches\, State-of-the-Art\, and Challenges”Achim Rabus (Univ ersity of Freiburg) “Pragmatic HTR: Smart Models\, Synthetic Data\, and Navigating the Performance-Usability Landscape”Benjamin Kiessling (Paris Sciences et Lettres University) “Large Multilingual ATR Models and Huma nities Practice - Conflicts and Pathways”\n \n \n \n \n \n 10:45-12:00\n \n Sess ion 1b: HTR Technology DevelopmentModerator: Martin Roček (Charles Univer sity\, Prague\, Institute for Medieval Research\, Austrian Academy of Scie nces\, Vienna)Matthew Miller (University of Maryland) “Approaches to Ope n Source\, Large-scale Arabic-script Text Recognition”Andrew Janco (Prin ceton University) &\; Ann Farnsworth-Alvear (University of Pennsylvania ) “Auto-Cataloging Research Materials with '\;Small'\; Vision-La nguage Models”John Pavlopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Busin ess\, and Archimedes\, Athena Research Center\, Greece) “Learning to Ada pt: Addressing Character Frequency Distribution Shifts in ΗΤR”\n \n \n \n \n \n 1:00-2:30\n \n Session 2: Document or Handwriting ClassificationModerato r: Tobias Hodel (University of Bern)Aaron Hershkowitz (Institute for Advan ced Study) &\; Nicholas Howe (Smith College) “Classifying Squeezes: E xperiments in HTR for Greek Epigraphy”Sebastian Sobecki (University of T oronto) “Communities of Practice: Scripts\, Scribes\, and the Production of Literature in London\, 1377-1471”Serena Ammirati (Università Roma T re) &\; Paolo Merialdo (Università Roma Tre) “Explanatio manifesta: towards high-level explanations of medieval handwriting identification sys tems”Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (University of Basel) &\; Giuseppe De Gregorio (University of Basel) "\;Comparing Alphas: Detection and R ecognition of Ancient Greek Characters on Papyri and their Applications in Digital Paleography"\;\n \n \n \n \n \n 2 :45-4:30\n \n Session 3: HTR Methodo logical ChallengesModerator: Christine Roughan (Princeton University)Alexa ndra Gillespie (University of Toronto) “What is a Book in the Age of Mac hine Learning?”Bernhard Bauer (University of Graz) “HTR and Early Medi eval Multilingual Glosses: Establishing the GlossIT Corpus”Anna Michalco vá (Charles University Prague\, Czech Language Institute at the Czech Aca demy of Sciences\, Institute for Medieval Research\, Austrian Academy of S ciences\, Vienna) “Orthographic Variability as HTR Challenge: Insights f rom Medieval Czech Manuscripts”Maria Konstantinidou (Democritus Universi ty of Thrace) “First Pass at the Unsung: HTR for Byzantine Music Notatio n”Jan Odstrčilík (Institute for Medieval Research\, Austrian Academy o f Sciences\, Vienna) “Different Transcription Conventions for Various La nguages in ATR: The Case of Latin-Czech Medieval Sermons”\n \n \n \n \n \n 4:45-6:15\n \n Session 4: Language ChallengesModerator: Anna Michalcová (Charl es University Prague\, Czech Language Institute at the Czech Academy of Sc iences\, Institute for Medieval Research\, Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna)George Kiraz (Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute\, and Institute f or Advanced Study) “Challenges in Building Syriac OCR: HTR Models for Sy riac”Jajwalya Karajgikar (University of Pennsylvania) “An Overview of HTR for South Asian Manuscripts”Ajay Rao (University of Toronto) &\; Sloane Geddes (University of Toronto): "\;Opportunities and Obstacles: Deploying Escriptorium in the HTR of Early Modern Sanskrit Manuscripts&qu ot\;Osama Eshera (University of Maryland) "\;From Script to Structure: Open Problems in the Automatic Analysis of Islamic Manuscripts"\;\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Friday\, June 13th\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9:00-10:45\n \n Session 5: Datasets and Institut ionsModerator: Jan Odstrčilík (Institute for Medieval Research\, Austria n Academy of Sciences\, Vienna)Alix Chagué (Inria\, Paris\, and Universit é de Montréal) “HTR-United schema for dataset descriptions”Jessie Du mmer (University of Pennsylvania) “Collections as Data at Penn Libraries and Beyond”Thibault Clérice (ALMAnaCH\, Inria\, Paris) “From a post- doc about old French to a 200k lines dataset in 10 different languages: bu ilding CATMuS Medieval”Seth Kulick (Linguistic Data Consortium\, Univers ity of Pennsylvania) “Linguistic Data Consortium Pilot Project: Motivati ons and Design”Christine Roughan (Princeton University) “Integrating A TR Software with University HPC Infrastructure”\n \n \n \n \n \ n 11:00-12:30\n \n Session 6: Leveraging Outputs: Text Reuse\, NLP\, and moreModerator: Tim Geelhaar (Goethe University Frankfurt)William Mattingly (Yale University) “Semantic Searching with Vector Databases and their Applications in Quo te Identification”David Smith (Khoury College of Computer Science\, Nort heastern University) “Textual Criticism as Language Modeling: From Trans cription to Collation and Back Again”Martin Roček (Charles University\, Prague\, Institute for Medieval Research\, Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna) “Enhancing Sentence Similarity Search with S-BERT: A Semantic A pproach”Seth Kulick (Linguistic Data Consortium\, University of Pennsylv ania) “Orthographic variation and post-OCR correction for Yiddish”\n \n \n \n \n \n 2:00-3:30\n \ n Plenary Discussion: Future of HTR\n \n \n \n \n \n 4:00-5:30\n \n Organizational session\; planning for the 2026 meeting\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nhttps://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/06/scoop-source-c odes-of-the-past-launching-an-international-atrhtr-network-for-manuscript- analysis/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR