Our report on the #DraCorSummit is now available via @hsozkult.bsky.social. It was a great week of enriching exchange on digital approaches to the genre of drama, from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 20th century.
@dracor.org #DraCor #DH #CLS #ClassicsBluesky #DigitalClassics
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.
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Release notes:
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Eine super Folge, um ein Bild vom #DraCorSummit zu bekommen 🙌
Außerdem durfte ich auch meine Eindrücke in ein paar O-Tönen teilen :)
#tb to last week's #DraCorSummit — grateful to all presenters, attendees, and organisers for a week full of inspiring exchanges on computational drama analysis ✨ @dracor.org @dhpotsdam.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.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
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Had a wonderful time at the #DraCorSummit! Taking home lots of Inspiration and some beautiful gadgets. Thanks so much @umblaetterer.bsky.social @peertrilcke.bsky.social @juliajbeine.bsky.social @lucagiovannini.bsky.social @danja.bsky.social and the whole organisation team!
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
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Mike Kelly (@apgrd.bsky.social) recalls José Calvo Tello's appraisal of #DraCor for pursuing a "guerrilla strategy through standards". 😊
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Archived posting from Januar 2020:
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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
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Read: zenodo.org/records/1693...
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
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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...
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How can we connect our smart humanities data to LLMs (when locking them away is not an option, because we want to follow ideas of open access and open science)? – a question raised and investigated with a DraCor-Claude-chatbot by the @dracor.org team at the #DraCorSummit
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
"Near perfect classification results are not expected and they are also not desirable" – Benjamin Krautter in his talk on drama analysis of Kleist in the context of periodisation in literary history at the #DraCorSummit
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...
Title page of the conference reader.
We're kicking off the Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis at #DraCorSummit 2025 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social!
Exciting line-up of 11 presentations, full programme here:
summit.dracor.org/computationa...
The 195-page conference reader was uploaded to Zenodo:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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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...
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Yesterday on my stroll through Berlin-Dahlem, where the #DraCorSummit takes place, I stumbled upon this information about how this place is humming of insects (again). This afternoon we will explore how GerDraCor is populated by animals and plants in our talk „ecologies on stage“ – looking forward!
“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)
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Photo from the 2025 DraCor Summit showing a themed mug with conference proceedings in the background.
Inspiring week here at the #DraCorSummit 2025 at Freie Universität Berlin. Great opportunity to learn about corpus building and analysis – not "just" for dramas but also, like in my case, for prose texts 💡
Mockup of the DraCor Summit mug.
Mockup of the DraCor Summit mug.
Mockup of stickers containing the DraCor logo.
Mockup of stickers containing the DraCor logo.
Btw, the conference swag for the #DraCorSummit was designed by #DraCor art director @schwindt.bsky.social.
#DHinaMug
Central problem of all Corpora integrated in DraCor by now: We do not know enough about the whole population of published plays to say anything about how representative the selection is. The canon might be well represented but is this enough? – Question raised by Lou Bernard at the #DraCorSummit
Let's talk about corpus creation! Second day of #DraCorSummit is dedicated to corpora. An issue uttered by @juliajbeine.bsky.social in the first talk of the day: We need a larger crowd to build larger corpora.
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
DraCor frontpage as of 2 September 2025.
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...
Logo of DraCorSummit 2025
The very first #DraCorSummit kicked off today 🎭 a full week dedicated to computational drama analysis!
We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026).
Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org
30,000 linked theatre programs! 🤩 Clarisse Bardiot demonstrates how theatre archives become structured data at the #DraCorSummit
