Digital Humanities Potsdam

Apparently, 750 co-presence networks from the German Drama Corpus get you the 1st place at the #DHd2026 poster award! Congrats to the @dracor.org team! 🎉
The winning poster in hi-res: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
A small riddle: try to find the network with just one node there!

Low-resolution preview version of our conference poster showing 750 network graphs extracted from the German Drama Corpus.

Here's our #DHd2026 poster: 750 co-presence networks from the German Drama Corpus, in chronological order. Extracted via rdracor, assembled by our art director @schwindt.bsky.social.

Full res:
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Abstract:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#DraCor @dracor.org #DigitalHumanities

Team Potsdam enjoying the #DHd2026 reception in Uni Wien's stunning Großer Festsaal 🥂 Great conference, great people!

Link to the #DHd2026 book of abstracts: zenodo.org/records/1859...

„Not only text, not only data“! Die Konferenz „Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” #DHd2026 hat gerade in Wien begonnen🎉

🍃 The #Code&Culture lecture series (this semester with a focus on #DigitalEnvironmentalHumanities goes on: Sabine Niederer and @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social will deliver a talk on "Prompting for Biodiversity: Visual research with generative AI".

Register here: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-h...

Neues Palais, Potsdam

🗓️ Mark your calendars!

#CCLS2026 will take place in beautiful #Potsdam 🏰 on May 28-29. Join us in person 👥 or online 💻 to discuss cutting-edge research in #CLS.

📚💻🔍 jcls.io/site/ccls2026/
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social #DH #LiteraryComputing

DraCor frontpage as of 22 December 2025.

✨ 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

Call for Paper from website

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...

poster, code&culture talk by manuel burghardt

🍃 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...
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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💁‍♂️

Slides for „Generating TEI Documents Through a Game of Dice“: lehkost.github.io/slides/2025-...
By V. J. Illmer @viktor.im, N. Heindorf, R. Zendebudie, M. Schwindt @schwindt.bsky.social, F. Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social

"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

Title slide.

Web app.

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.

Title slide from the presentation.

Another slide from the presentation.

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

The DraCor website showing the extracted co-occurrence network of Ion Luca Caragiale's play "A Lost Letter" from 1884.

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

About the game: battle-of-the-plays.github.io

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