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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · 19d

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💁‍♂️

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · 20d

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

Generating TEI Documents Through a Game of Dice (TEI2025, Kraków, 18 September 2025)

lehkost.github.io

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · 20d

"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

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Raff Viglianti @raffazizzidh.bsky.social · 20d

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.

JinnTap

jinnelements.github.io

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Battle of the Plays

Rules of Play and Other Information

battle-of-the-plays.github.io

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

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Mareike Schumacher @mkschumacher.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

Conference Reader: Second Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis (Berlin, 03.09.2025)

This reader compiles the contributions accepted for presentation at the Second Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis: Achievements and Opportunities, to be held on 3 September 2025 at Freie Univers...

zenodo.org

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 2

“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...

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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DraCor @dracor.org · Sep 2

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

#DHinaMug

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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DraCor @dracor.org · Sep 2

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...

DraCor frontpage as of 2 September 2025.

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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