PressMint: Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers

When: Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Where: hybrid

Conference Room ‘Sobieski’, Polish Academy of Sciences – Scientific Centre in Vienna (Second building in the courtyard)

Boerhaavegasse 25, 1030 Vienna & online

Registration: You can register for the workshop via this registration form .
This workshop is limited to max. 60 people (onsite).

Organisation: Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Petya Osenova, Tanja Wissik, Tomaž Erjavec, Matyáš Kopp & German Rigau

Language: English

The meeting aims to present the PressMint project – a flagship project of the CLARIN research infrastructure .

The thematic scope of the meeting will focus on key aspects of building a multilingual, comparable, and interoperable collection of historical European newspaper corpora from the early 20th century. Topics covered will include data preparation, data conversion, linguistic processing, validation, and representation of enriched information within the corpus. As part of the local organizer’s presentation, the work on the Austrian corpus will be presented.

The meeting will be held in a hybrid format, combining in-person and remote participation. The event will open with a two-hour open session in the form of a videoconference, broadcast live to a wide audience from the CLARIN community and other interested parties. After its conclusion, a closed, working session of the meeting will take place for the project consortium, with participation from both on-site and online attendees.

The expected result of the meeting is to develop a shared vision for further work, improve cooperation within the distributed infrastructure of ten national consortia, and accelerate the pace of work on making rich, open resources available to enable innovative, international, and transdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences.

Programme

Registration and welcome:

12:30 – 13:30: Registration and light lunch

Open session:

13:30 – 13:45: Opening of the meeting (Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Tanja Wissik, representatives of the Polish Academy of Sciences Research Station in Vienna)

13:45 – 14:00: Introduction to the PressMint project (Petya Osenova)

14:00 – 14:15: Data format and preparation (Tomaž Erjavec)

14:15 – 14:30: Conversion and Linguistic Processing (Matyáš Kopp)

14:30 – 14:45: Additional Information in the Corpus: Facsimiles, Normalization, and Links (German Rigau)

14:45 – 15:00: Information activities (Maciej Ogrodniczuk)

15:00 – 15:15: Case Study: The Austrian Corpus (Tanja Wissik)

15:15 – 15:30: Q&A Session (all participants)

Break:

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break

Section limited to project members (on site and online):

16:00 – 17:30: Project meeting (PressMint consortium members)

PressMint Project