✨ After a very active year with many new #DraCor corpora & an intense #DraCorSummit we’re wrapping things up just in time for the holidays with a refreshed interface and other improvements. dracor.org Release notes: github.com/dracor-org/d... github.com/dracor-org/d... #DigitalHumanities

Excited about the #JCLS articles and working on a #ComputationalLiteraryStudies draft yourself? Be part of the journal and submit to our Conference Track by January 8: jcls.io/site/cfp/ #CCLS2026 #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CfP

AI research interfaces, oral-history transcription, big text corpora, linguistic geodata — today’s DH Day at @unipotsdam.bsky.social showed just how wide the #DigitalHumanities spectrum in Potsdam really is. Full program (in 🇩🇪): www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-h...

🍃 This semester, our #Code&Culture lecture series will have a focus on #DigitalEnvironmentalHumanities. Our first guest will be @manuelburghardt.bsky.social with a talk titled "Analyzing Nature-Culture Entanglements at Scale". Register here: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-h...

🚀 Just launched the #DigitalHumanities Early Career Fellowship at @unipotsdam.bsky.social ✅ In the first class, we turned historical sources into data with OCR, discussed “what counts as data” in the humanities, did some metadata modeling, and met a wonderful new cohort of young researchers! #DH

Es ist endlich der 20.! Vielen Dank an Frank (@umblaetterer.bsky.social), Peer (@peertrilcke.bsky.social) & Julia (@juliajbeine.bsky.social) für das Interview – & an alle Teilnehmenden des #DraCorSummit, die sich mit uns unterhalten haben! Und hier geht's zur Folge: radihum20.de/radihum...#DraCorSummit,1/2

If you were wondering why Krakow attracts so many #DigitalHumanities action (from @teiconsortium.bsky.social to @jcls-io.bsky.social), it’s not only thanks to the great work by the DH centre of @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social. We DHers just like our pilgrimages to the tomb of the founder of stylometry💁‍♂️

"The number of plays you can generate is larger than the number of atoms in the universe. In fact, one could generate as many plays as there are atoms in the universe FOR EACH atom in the universe". @viktor.im, @umblaetterer.bsky.social on generating TEI dramas with 🎲 (based on a 1829 book) #TEI2025

In just a few seconds, we’ll be presenting our #TEI2025 talk: »Generating TEI Documents Through a Game of Dice« 🎲 Slides: lehkost.github.io/slides/2025-... Web app: temporal-communities.github.io/999/ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @temporal-communities.de @schwindt.bsky.social @viktor.im

Interesting new WYSIWYG online editor for TEI documents: jinnelements.github.io/jinn-tap/ #tei2025 Actually, the creators call is a What You See Is What You MEAN Editor.

Next up at #TEI2025: @danja.bsky.social presents our work on the Ukrainian Drama Corpus 🇺🇦 So far, we encoded 47 plays (1810s–1920s) by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka & others. Explore the corpus here: dracor.org/u #DraCor @dracor.org @teiconsortium.bsky.social @schwindt.bsky.social

One of the outcomes of the #DraCorSummit is the official release of the Romanian Drama Corpus! 🇷🇴 Fantastic teamwork with the RoDraCor team from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, 30 plays are already online, with more on the way: dracor.org/ro #DraCor

Shakespeare is beaten by a student assistant! 😲 The 3rd World Championship in #battleoftheplays (formerly #dramenquartett) took place at the #DraCorSummit. 20 participants competed in intense matches – after a thrilling finale, Tabeer Khilji of @unipotsdam.bsky.social took the cup home! 🏆 🎉 #dracor

The #DraCorSummit Barcamp turned into an actual camp 🏕️ Discussing characters & types on #DraCor under apple trees🌳 Waiting for a Newtonian 🍏 eureka 😜

Barcamp is the place to address the questions that normally fade away right after a hasty 2–3 minute Q&A at a conference, but now in a bigger timeframe — @peertrilcke.bsky.social kicks off the #DraCorSummit Barcamp #DraCor

Mareike @mkschumacher.bsky.social, Marie Flüh & Felix Lempp explore how plants, animals & habitats appear in 680 German #DraCor plays (1510–1947). 🌱🐎🌳 Findings: ecologies appear rarely, peak twice (1800–1850 & 1900), and are richer in speech than in stage directions Read: zenodo.org/records/1693...

Equivalent characters from parallel plays (source and translation) tend to speak at similar length at similar moments — Lucas van der Deijl (@rug.nl) presents a computational method to align characters from parallel plays in different languages #DraCorSummit #DraCor Read: zenodo.org/records/1693...

To use small (large) language models might need more thorough planing and preparation in the humanistic project, but it comes with more insight into wether and how it fits the task – now Thomas Jäger from the University of Vienna is reporting on the use of LLMs in drama analysis #DraCorSummit

Capitalist LLMs are eating our smart & open humanities data and mashing it into gigantic word porridge... How can we reverse it? — @peertrilcke.bsky.social speaks about the MCP-empowered LLM Usage of #DraCor (or "How to teach Claude use the DraCor API") Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13774 #DraCorSummit

Ulla Kallenbach & Anna Lawaetz take on L. Holberg’s 37 comedies with computational tools 📊 They trace character constellations, stage presence & dramaturgical rhythms—moving beyond speech networks to include the spectator’s perspective 👀 Reader with the paper zenodo.org/records/1693... #DraCorSummit

The Comp. Drama Analysis workshop is kicked off by @benkrautter.bsky.social revisiting the problem of Heinrich von Kleist’s place in literary history. By applying machine learning to 634 #DraCor plays, he shows how Kleist’s works appear “too modern” for their time, resisting easy classification

From LLM agents for #DraCor to operationalisation of sound in Drama: the 2nd Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis is starting right now at the #DraCorSummit. The workshop reader with all 11 papers is online: zenodo.org/records/1693...

See how #DraCor neatly builds into the very circle of life!🐝 The conference reader with all papers, including the one about animals and plants in the German drama, is online: zenodo.org/records/1693... #DraCorSummit

“The most perfect edition of plays ever published” 😎 — Lou Burnard @lb42.bsky.social presenting the Digital Lacy project at the #DraCorSummit. Slides: lb42.github.io/Lacy/2025-09...

Luca @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presenting the English Drama Corpus within #DraCor — and showing what can be built on top of it with the DraCor API: in this case, a map of all locations mentioned in 435 English plays (1550s–1700s) #DraCorSummit dracor.org/eng

Btw, the conference swag for the #DraCorSummit was designed by #DraCor art director @schwindt.bsky.social. #DHinaMug

From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor

About to start the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025. A full day dedicated to TEI-encoded drama corpora. @teiconsortium.bsky.social We host 30 (!) community-curated corpora, overview: dracor.org/doc/corpora Programme for today (18 presentations 🤯): summit.dracor.org/corpora_conf...

30,000 linked theatre programs! 🤩 Clarisse Bardiot demonstrates how theatre archives become structured data at the #DraCorSummit

We @peertrilcke.bsky.social just finished our #DraCorSummit workshop @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social: »Simple Analyses with #DraCor Data« Slides: lehkost.github.io/slides/2025-...

“Performances dissolve in the darkness of the stage.” — Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) at #DraCorSummit, on turning theatre programmes into structured data with ontologies and the role of LLMs in that process 🎭🤖 #DraCor

Corpus Archeology of @dracor.org in action: „In 2020 the pandemic hits, Frank @umblaetterer.bsky.social gets more time to encode plays — and we see it in the number of documents on the GerDraCor github“ 📈🧑‍💻 #DracorSummit #ProgrammableCorpora

✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today! 5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Programme: summit.dracor.org @temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social

The first ever #DraCorSummit by @dracor.org is ready to start!

Im #DramaCorporaProjekt sind tausende von Dramen der europ. Literaturgeschichte frei verfügbar. Das #DraCorSummit2025 für internat. Forschende wird vom @dhpotsdam.bsky.social mit der Professur für #DigitalHumanities der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ausgerichtet: www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...

Henny Sluyter-Gäthje (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) presenting "Towards Modularised Open Infrastructures". The study is based on our paper "Detecting Small Worlds in a Corpus of Thousands of Theatre Plays" (doi.org/10.1515/9783...) Repo: github.com/dracor-org/s... #DH2025 #DraCor @dracor.org

What is a scene in a novel? And how do we teach computers to detect them? (SPOILER: no, tossing it into the latest GPT does NOT solve it!) A deep & thoughtful study of scene segmentation✂️ in US romance novels by: @guhrs.bsky.social Huijun Mao Fengyi Lin @alexsherman.bsky.social‬ Mark Algee-Hewitt

#DH2025: Another #alignment project in #CLS. @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and Dhara Lechner of @dhssfau.bsky.social present their work on "Tracing #Transformation: editorial shifts in the Grimm brothers’ tales". #FairyTales #German-language #fiction

Do LLMs turn coders into „code-readers“ / „evaluators“? How do we teach Python when every beginner student can generate code that’s better and more complex than anything they can master in years of learning? Is the old teaching pipeline DONE? Shall we teach code interpretation? Discussing at #DH2025

Stylo got the Zampolli prize for outstanding output in #DigitalHumanities 🏆 Congrats to Maciej Eder, @mikekestemont.bsky.social, Jan Rybicki, Joanna Byszuk, and all involved with the Computational Stylistics Group!👏 Prev. recipients were Voyant Tools, TEI, R. Siemens, C. Gaffield #DH2025 #stylometry

Let the #DH2025 conference officially begin 🎉 #Lisboa #DigitalHumanities #Lisbon #OpenScience

An updated #DraCor with blackjack and enhanced API 😎 Just in time for #DH2025 👌

Not had enough of #CCLS2025 yet? Next year is already our fifth anniversary! Get excited for #CCLS2026 in Potsdam! @dhpotsdam.bsky.social 🥳 #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #DH #LiteraryComputing

Lucas Van der Deijl, University of Groningen, spent his TNA Fellowship at University of Potsdam where he contributed a corpus of 150 early-modern Dutch plays to @dracor.org: dracor.org/dutch

☀️ Kraków is welcoming #CLSinfra and #CCLS2025 with full summer charm: sunshine, blue skies, and just the right breeze for #CLS discussions. Whether you're joining on-site or tuning in online: it's a bright week for #ComputationalLiteraryStudies!

Live from Kraków: our own @danja.bsky.social presenting results from WP 7, focusing on the @dracor.org prototype, at the CLS INFRA Closing Event. #digitalhumanities

These day DH Potsdam is deep into co-running the Data Literacy Barcamp & Conference here in Potsdam City Centre. Link to the program (de): www.quadriga-dk.de/de/quadriga-... (conference) www.quadriga-dk.de/de/barcamp-d... (Barcamp) And some pics for you 💁

Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 September 2025! summit.dracor.org Discover a varied programme feat. workshops, lectures, discussion rounds, and hackathon sessions. @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

⚠️ Deadline extension: please submit your abstracts (500w) until 13.05.2025! #DraCorSummit2025 @dracor.org

🚀 Deadline approaching: please submit your abstracts (up to 500 words) by Tuesday, May 6!