Information regarding the efforts to process and describe these archival collections
SCOS is a multi-institutional collaborative research initiative into Early America and the British Atlantic world. The project is based at the University of Virginia Law Library with partners in the United States and the United Kingdom. The pages below explore the people and processes behind SCOS. They offer insight into SCOS's intellectual and technical foundations as well as the critical partnerships and digital resources that enrich our understanding of Session Papers and the stories have to tell about the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Contact: archives@law.virginia.edu.
Open-weight models, human judgment, and provenance at every step: how the archive's computational work is held to an archival standard.
SCOS is a multi-institutional collaborative research initiative into Early America and the British Atlantic World. We are delighted to recognize the generosity, collaborative spirit, and resources of several individuals and institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Four ways in — full-text search across the papers, the map of the court's world, the network of people and causes, and a machine-readable endpoint for computational research.
Information about the technical processes involved in digitizing, arranging, sharing, and distributing SCOS content.
What changed in 2026: the dispersed corpus united across three institutions, every printed page machine-readable, and new ways into the collection.
Read the project's policies on using intellectual and digital content provided by our site and our commitment to open access.
