The forTEXT journal team is thrilled to announce: The first articles of our first Special Issue on Reflected Text Analysis, edited by guest editors @axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy and @nilsreiter.de, are available now at: journal.fortext.org/issues/ (1/4)

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Next stop: Daejeon, South Korea! 🌏 The fortext lab is excited to join #DH2026 with three contributions sharing insights from our current Digital Humanities research. (1/3) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #DH #CLS

Our paper (see co-authors in the thread), "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology", is now out in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. (1/5)

This week, part of our team attended #DHd2026 in sunny Vienna — it was a joy to meet the community, exchange ideas, and present some of our current work 👇 (1/4)

We are looking to extend the @catma.bsky.social development team! This is an E13, full-time position for 36 months and relates to the ongoing development of our open source annotation tool. #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHd #ResearchSoftware #CATMA #Annotation #RSE #DHTech #DHTools (1/3)

Come work with us! Das @fortextlab.bsky.social sucht Verstärkung für @catma.bsky.social. Die Stelle (E13, 100%, 3 Jahre) wird Teil des dreiköpfigen Entwicklungsteams: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt... Bewerbungsschluss ist der 16.03.! #DigitalHumanities #ResearchSoftware #CATMA #Annotation

Some of us will be heading to Vienna next week for this year's #DHd2026 conference. We are looking forward to learning about current DH projects! Our team will be presenting a talk on measurement in DH and participating in the poster session with the forTEXT journal: (1/4)

We are currently compiling a collection of German-language climate fiction novels. So we have a question for the community: Which texts come to mind for you? #climate-change-fiction #CLS #ecocriticism #climate-fiction #digitalhumanities #cli-fi #germanliterature #climate-change (1/2)

In this week’s project seminar, Steffi from our team shared a peek at her PhD project, which explores the question: What shapes literary histories as texts? (1/3)

Last week, Steffi from our forTEXT team attended the final “Fokus Portale” workshop in Hamburg, hosted by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre - reflecting on the past funding phase of our forTEXT journal and annotation software @catma.bsky.social. (1/4)

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small one-and-a-half day workshop here in Darmstadt for research software engineers. A prior workshop with the same participants had taken place at University of Bielefeld in spring. The primary topic this time was (software) project management. #DHTech #RSE (1/5)

This year’s CHR2025 conference in Luxembourg started yesterday, and we will be there to share insights into the two following projects #CHR2025 (1/6): See our abstracts for more information: 👉 doi.org/10.63744/IwD...
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What happens when colleagues from archives, libraries, and the humanities come together to talk about metadata? A wonderfully inspiring workshop "Metadaten in den Humanities" with great people and great conversations at the Zentralbibliothek Zürich! #metadata #CLS #Humanities (1/4)

There is still time to get started on the shared task. The test phase will be held in January. This week you can find many of us organizers at @comphumresearch.bsky.social. Feel free to reach out; look for @evelyngius.bsky.social, @haimostiemer.bsky.social, and @hanshatzel.bsky.social.

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

For the last two weeks the fortext lab hosted the Georgian DH-Expert Irakli Khvedelidze (Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature). Alongside various meetings exchanging experiences and ideas, Irakli gave a public talk on research in the field of Digital Literary Studies in Georgia. (1/5)

Quick reminder: Join us at our free CATMA Workshop next week! ➡️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST) ➡️ Duration: 2 hours ➡️ Location: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214... (no registration required) See you there!

Last week, we held a small but intensive workshop in Darmstadt on how literary history and computation can go together. The talks either adapted traditional literary concepts for computational analysis or introduced new digital approaches. (1/3)

The second public CATMA workshop this year is taking place in November! Here are the details: ✏️ 24th of November 2025, 16:00/4pm CET (3pm GMT, 10am EST, 9am CST, 7am PST) Duration: 2 hours Language: English Location: Online via Zoom 🎥: tu-darmstadt.zoom-x.de/j/6397993214... See you there!

📢 Reminder – The forTEXT journal's Open Call is still live! We’re looking for German-language teaching concepts on text annotation in higher education. Deadline: Oct 31 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp/ (1/3)

On Friday 7th November, Prof. Jenny Kwok (Hong Kong Baptist University) will present a public lecture entitled "Retrieving Context, Re-centering Interpretation: AI Hermeneutics and the Democratization of Reading"📚 Join us online for #FridayFrontiers! ➡️ Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/06/13/r...

Folks in DH working with German-language data! Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮 openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

📢 Reminder – The forTEXT journal's Open Call is still live! We’re looking for German-language teaching concepts on text annotation in higher education. Deadline: Oct 31 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp/ (1/3)

#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies. 🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025 #DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement

What can students of #ComputationalLiteraryStudies and #DigitalHumanities @tuda.bsky.social expect in the coming months? A brief overview of the fortext lab's teaching activities: (1/4)

At this week’s closing meeting of the DFG Priority Programme Computational Literary Studies at @uni-wuerzburg.de, 19 talks were presented and discussed over 4 days with more than 40 participants. An inspiring week full of exchange and ideas! #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #DH (1/4)

Last week we got together for our yearly lab retreat! For 2,5 days we planned, discussed and brainstormed together, tucked away in a monastery (no joke) in beautiful Fulda. (1/4)

At #Germanistentag 2025's panel "Network as Method", @haimostiemer.bsky.social presented the ChiA project, developed at @fortextlab.bsky.social in collaboration with @evelyngius.bsky.social. #germanistik #CLS #fortextlab @tu-braunschweig.de (1/5)

Good research needs strong scientific communities! That's why earlier this week, fortext lab members @evelyngius.bsky.social, Stefanie Messner and @julianhaeussler.bsky.social attended the CRETA-Werkstatt. A gathering of the Centre for Reflected Text Analysis (@cretaverein.bsky.social). (1/4)

We are in the university campus quiz category. Who knows where the PLANS project met yesterday? In PLANS we explore text phenomena relevant for action and tackle CLS challenges like segmentation. #fortext #CLS #DigitalHumanities #DH #CompLit (1/3)

A lot has happened over the summer break. One highlight: the white paper Doing AI Differently from the Alan Turing Institute – co-authored by @EvelynGius along with 50+ international colleagues. Core message: We need a fundamental shift in AI development! 👉 www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica... (1/4)

We’ve recently started sharing teaching concepts in the forTEXT issue “Text Annotation in Higher Education.” Now we’re on the lookout for more German-language perspectives on how it’s taught, practiced, and conceptualized. Our call for papers is open again 👉 journal.fortext.org/site/cfp (1/3)

The narratological study of fairy tales has a long tradition - and it continues to offer fascinating insights today. This semester we explored them computationally with students, focusing on how characters shape narrative structures. #DigitalHumanities #DHinTeaching #AcademicTeaching #DHMakes (1/4)

We’re excited to release the second article in our forTEXT issue on text annotation in higher education! Discover how students dive into 1950s love letters, transcribing and annotating them with TEI-XML. 👉 doi.org/10.48694/for... (1/3)

How do we incorporate measurement theory into the Digital Humanities? This was the leading question in this term’s seminar, “Measurement across the Sciences”, led by @EvelynGius. Read on to find out more. (1/4)

🎉 We’re excited to kick things off! We’re launching SemEval-2026 Task 4: Narrative Story Similarity and Narrative Representation Learning. This is a joint effort by @hanshatzel.bsky.social (University of Hamburg) and the fortext lab, as part of the PLANS project, in collaboration with Toloka AI.

The Final Countdown... ⏰

Hey everyone! Final reminder: Got 10–15 minutes? Help us make CATMA even better by taking our short, anonymous survey! It’s open to all experience levels and only takes a little of your time. Deadline: 31.07 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thanks a lot! #CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities

We’ve been spotlighting DH resources lately — now let’s take a closer look at three departments hosting Digital Humanities at German universities. (1/5)

Last week, our PLANS project presented at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 - @haimostiemer.bsky.social‬ and @hanshatzel.bsky.social‬ shared our approach to thematic text analysis based on semantic verb classes in German literary texts. 🧵👇 (1/4)

Heyyy everyone! Don’t forget to take part in our short, anonymous 10-25 min. CATMA survey to help us improve our tool. Users of all experience levels are welcome! Feel free to share! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thanks very much to everyone who participates! #CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities

Last week @fortextlab.bsky.social members @evelyngius.bsky.social and @julianhaeussler.bsky.social, as well as fortext lab alum @guhrs.bsky.social, spend two intense and insightful days at #CCLS2025 in beautiful Krakow, Poland. Looking forward to the future of #CLS! @jcls-io.bsky.social

As a follow-up to our last post on DH resource platforms, here are more DH centers that may be helpful for your research and networking. We’re curious to know — which DH centers do you know or work with? (1/7)

We’d love your input! Help us improve CATMA by taking our short, anonymous survey (10-15 min). Users of all experience levels are welcome. Take part and feel free to share! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thanks very much to everyone who participates! #CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities #DHTools

☝️ Quick reminder: Our next drop-in support session takes place tomorrow. You can find all the details in our original announcement here: bsky.app/profile/catm...

Flying back today from a circuit of some (not all!) of the great DH centers in Germany (Darmstadt, Bielefeld, Leipzig and Würzburg). Such great energy and amazing people moving the field forward at each one. I'm bringing back lots of ideas.

We are very excited to announce the publication of our forTEXT issue on text annotation in higher education. It brings together tried-and-tested, reusable teaching concepts in German centred on the method of text annotation in the humanities. 👉 www.fortext-hefte.de (1/4)

As a follow-up to our last post, here’s an overview of various DH centers that provide a wide range of services for the community. (1/6) #dh #DigitalHumanities #DHPools #DHCenter

Let’s start with two great platforms that offer curated overviews of resources for anyone diving into DH research. (1/3)

In the ever-evolving field of Digital Humanities, knowing where to find information, experts, and tools can be a recurring challenge for researchers. Expert pools and resource directories can therefore be very helpful for a variety of reasons. (1/3) #dh #DigitalHumanities #DHPools #DHCenter