The deadline is fast approaching: 31 July 2025 is your last chance to submit a proposal for the PCPSce Vienna Hackathon, taking place from 10 to 12 December 2025 in Vienna.
This three-day, hands-on event will bring together researchers, data enthusiasts, and COST Action participants to explore new ways of working with historical datasets. Whether your dataset is large or small, structured or messy, textual or visual — this is your opportunity to collaborate, experiment, and unlock new questions.
We’re especially looking for datasets related to print culture, such as:
- Library or auction catalogues
- Correspondence and accounting books
- Publishers’ archives
- legal sources that document book possession (e.g., testaments)
- Pictorial content in books
Datasets can be simple CSV or Excel files, but also TEI files.
If your data fits into one of our topical clusters (that are likely to represent small hackathon groups), we want to hear from you:
- Data extraction and “datafication” of sources
- Aggregation of multiple datasets
- Ontologies or linked open data and their implementation of standardized entities through which (multilingual, pictorial) datasets could be interlinked (names, dates, motives …)
- Representativeness of data, bias and possible remedies
- Processable information on book materiality to be deduced from bibliographical metadata
- Comparison between languages and translations (language states and registers)
- Application of GIS for spatial and geographical reach of ordonnances, news hubs and review journals
And if your data doesn’t quite fit? We’re still happy to hear from you! Please please do get in touch so that we can discuss the matter.
No programming skills are required — this Hackathon is driven by curiosity and collaboration, not coding credentials. But if you do work with tools like OpenRefine, oXygen, Python, or R, please mention that in your proposal.
What to Submit:
Please send a one-page proposal by 31 July 2025 outlining:
- What your dataset includes (with format and license, if applicable)
- How it connects to the broader COST Action and your Working Group
- Which of the clusters above your data might relate to
Email your proposal to:
- Joëlle Weis (weis@uni-trier.de)
- Kerstin Manninger (kerstin.manninger@gmail.com)
- Thomas Wallnig (thomas.wallnig@univie.ac.at)
Participants will be selected and notified in early/mid September. More details about the event and logistics will follow in October, including optional online intro and wrap-up sessions.
Around 15 participants from the Action will be selected, and travel and participation costs are covered.
For full details, see the Call for Applications here:
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Let your data meet its moment — join us in Vienna this December!