Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 September 2025!
Discover a varied programme feat. workshops, lectures, discussion rounds, and hackathon sessions.
@freieuniversitaet @dh_potsdam #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities" @unipotsdam
#DigitalHumanities @TEIConsortium #DraCorSummit2025
For the third talk of this semester, we are excited to welcome Luca Giovannini ( @lucagiovannini_ ) from #UniPotsdam to our "DH im Fokus" lecture series!
In his talk "Investigating the Evolution of Early Modern European Drama with Digital Methods", he will present the results of his recently completed PhD project. As always, the session starts at 5:15 pm, both onsite and online.
More information and Zoom login details here: https://www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/en/forschung/digital-humanities/rosdh/lecture-series/suse-2025/n/investigating-the-evolution-of-early-modern-european-drama-with-digital-methods-235039/
Join us for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–4 September 2025.
From corpus building to latest advances in digital drama analysis.
CfPs open until 6 May 2025. General registration will open in due time.
@freieuniversitaet @dh_potsdam #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities" @unipotsdam
📖👩💻📚 In der 39. Folge von Informatik für die moderne Hausfrau spreche ich mit Julia Jennifer Beine über Digital Humanities. Mehr dazu hier: https://informatik-hausfrau.de/2025/03/18/folge-39-digital-humanities/
#DH #DigitalHumanities #CLS #LitWiss #ClassicalReceptionStudies #Classics #DraCor
The "Computational modelling of literary characters" slides for our talk at the Department für Digital Humanities and Social Studies in Erlangen:
https://slides.com/danilsko/characters-in-cls
Features
* pre-digital formalist & structuralist motivations for computational studies of characters
* data-driven exploration of characters & whole character systems in thousands of dramatic texts
* network analysis of Tolstoy's War and Peace
#DigitalHumanities #CLS #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #DraCor #Computerphilologie
⚡ New #DraCor merch available:
Our new network analysis card-game, "BATTLE OF THE PLAYS", published with @sukultur, order here:
https://sukultur.de/produkt/battle-of-the-plays-a-gamification-approach-to-literary-network-analysis/
Rules of play and background info:
https://battle-of-the-plays.github.io/
The cards are published under Creative Commons license CC0 1.0 and can also be downloaded for self-printing and customisation.
@unipotsdam This outage also affects #DraCor servers (https://dracor.org/). A workaround would be to run DraCor services locally with #Docker. If you need support, please send DM to get in touch.
⚡ #DigitalHumanities job in Berlin:
You want to work on the #DraCor (Drama Corpora) platform? (https://dracor.org/)
2-year 50% FTE position at @freieuniversitaet (Jan 2025–Dec 2026)
Full description (in German, but applications in English welcome):
https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/wiss/16_fb-philosophie-und-geisteswissenschaften/PG-WiMi-DraCorOS-2025.html
(Deadline 25 Nov 2024)
Can LLMs produce #DraCor ready TEI/XMLs from raw texts of plays? Check out our #TEI2024 presentation on an LLM-powered encoding workflow for drama💁♂️ https://shorturl.at/8Xy1E
Bonus: early attempt at creating a TEI generation benchmark for 4 LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral, Gemini)
The Yiddish Drama Corpus is the latest addition to the #DraCor family of corpora:
https://dracor.org/yi
Today at #TEI2024 in Buenos Aires, we will talk about the <foreign> element in Yiddish.
Slides:
https://sreyfe.github.io/slides/2024-10-10-foreign-tag/
Later today at #TEI2024 in Buenos Aires, our talk:
"French Drama in TEI: A Workflow for the Continuous Integration of the 'Théâtre classique' Corpus into the #DraCor Infrastructure"
Slides:
https://bit.ly/teifre
Corpus:
https://dracor.org/fre
The postprint of our #DH2024 long paper on character typology in #RomanComedy is now available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13801481
As usual with #DraCor, you can use the data out-of-the-box for co-occurrence network analysis, very suitable for teaching. #DigitalHumanities
This is the graph for Schlegel/Tieck's translation of Shakespeare's "Henry VI, Part 1" (using @Gephi to visualise our GEXF data).
Perma link to the play:
https://dracor.org/id/gersh000019
⚡ We just released the German #Shakespeare Drama Corpus (#GerShDraCor):
https://dracor.org/gersh
This is the digital version of the Schlegel/Tieck edition (Aufbau-Verlag 1975).
Full description:
https://github.com/dracor-org/gershdracor
Main benefits:
- Less bloated markup.
- Character IDs for all speaking instances, incl. groups & minor characters (1,497 altogether).
- #Wikidata IDs assigned to (mythological, historical, fictional) characters, if applicable.
In a few minutes, Julia Beine will present our #DH2024 talk:
"Just the Type: Analysing Character Typology in Roman Comedy with RomDraCor"
– with @vji @freieuniversitaet
Roman #DraCor:
https://dracor.org/rom
(adapted from Perseus Digital Library, enhancements documented here: https://github.com/dracor-org/romdracor)
DraCor has over 15 drama corpora in different languages, making it a wonderful #MultilingualDH resource! 🙏🏻✨ Thank you, @
#DraCor!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:brtq6623abixaknkmf54jszd/post/3kxi7iylvc22g
⚡ In the first half of 2024 alone, 23 papers were published that directly work with or use #DraCor data.
Our goal has always been to provide a stable infrastructure for the digital study of drama from antiquity to the 20th century.
https://dracor.org/doc/research
Big thanks to the wonderful #DraCor community, especially to everyone who contributed code, corpora and ideas! 🙏 We look forward to even more & better annotated corpora in the near future, to more API functions, to new DraCor-based research.
This Friday, 19 July 2024, 10:15 (Berlin time), in our #DigitalHumanities colloquium @freieuniversitaet:
Michael Falk (University of Melbourne) on the analysis of character networks in Romantic tragedies feat. #DraCor data for context
Open to everyone, Webex link here:
https://wikis.fu-berlin.de/display/phaenodh
... as already pointed out by @umblaetterer: Many articles make use of data assembled and collected in the #DraCor repository, showing (once again) what an awesome resource DraCor is and how valuable corpora and corpus collections are.
🎉 Looks like "Computational Drama Analysis: Reflecting on Methods and Interpretations" was just published by #DeGruyter, ed. by @melandresen & @nilsreiter, 9 articles + preface. #OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities
Great to see so many colleagues working with #DraCor. 🙏
