We cannot believe these 5 days are over 😭 The ‘Text as data’ #DHSpringSchool has reached its end, but the spring continues to blossom — and so do #DigitalHumanities 🌸🌸🌸
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hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam
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MiMoTextBase is a project aiming to build a "Wikidata for literary history", which can be queried together with the actual Wikidata using the approach called federated queries — @christof@fedihum.org, @MariaHinzmann@fedihum.org, and Julia Röttgermann present federated queries for literary studies at the linked open data and literary studies conference.
Slides: https://mimotext.github.io/lod-lithist/federated-queries.html#/
The joint team of @unipotsdam@wisskomm.social & @fontanearchiv@bird.makeup at the #DHd2024 conference. It was a week full of talk about LLMs, GPT, CLS, TEI, OCR, TTS, RDM, and other fancy acronyms which define the present and will likely shape the future of #DigitalHumanities
Quo Vadis DH? Well, now we have an idea 😎👌
'We originally planned a tiny event with 5-6 talks, now we are at 18' — @umblaetterer@chaos.social launching (presumably the largest) the Linked Open Data and Literary Studies conference at @freieuniversitaet@berlin.social
Team Potsdam enjoying the #DHd2026 reception in Uni Wien's stunning Großer Festsaal 🥂 Great conference, great people!
Apparently, 750 networks from the German Drama Corpus get you the 1st place at the #DHd2026 poster award! Congrats to the @dracor.org team! 🎉
Poster in hi res: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.31113820
The Value of the Digital #DHJewish Conference by @mmzpotsdam@wisskomm.social and @c2dh_lu@bird.makeup will be held in Potsdam in April 10–12. The event includes a hands-on-hackathon 👩💻🧑💻 on April 10. Register for the conferrence and/or hackathon till March 31:
„Not only text, not only data“! Die Konferenz „Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” #DHd2026 hat gerade in Wien begonnen🎉 Link zum Book of Abstracts: https://zenodo.org/records/18591948
AI research interfaces, oral-history transcription, big text corpora, linguistic geodata — today’s DH Day at @unipotsdam@wisskomm.social showed just how wide the #DigitalHumanities spectrum in Potsdam really is. Full program (in 🇩🇪): https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-humanities/events/dh-day-2025
🚀 Just launched the #DigitalHumanities Early Career Fellowship at @unipotsdam@wisskomm.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
Shakespeare is beaten by a student assistant! 😲
The 3rd World Championship in #battleoftheplays (formerly #dramenquartett, aka ‘Brecht beats Shakespeare’) took place at the #DraCorSummit. 20 participants competed in intense matches – after a thrilling finale, Tabeer Khilji of
@unipotsdam@wisskomm.social took the cup home! 🏆 Congratulations! 🎉 #dracor
About the game: https://battle-of-the-plays.github.io/
The #DraCorSummit Barcamp turned into an actual camp 🏕️
Discussing characters & types on #DraCor under apple trees🌳
Waiting for a Newtonian 🍏 eureka 😜
…and then comes the Bar part 🥂
Barcamp is the place to address the questions that normally die quietly right after a hasty 2–3 minute Q&A at a conference… but now in a bigger timeframe — @peertrilcke@fedihum.org kicks off the #DraCorSummit Barcamp
#DraCor
From gardens on stage to animals in metaphor: Mareike
@mkschumacher.bsky.social , Marie Flüh & Felix Lempp analyze 680 German dramas for ecological presence. Their study shows how stage directions remain human-centered, while speech creates a more diverse “Wortkulisse” of habitats, plants & creatures.
Read the paper in the workshop reader:
https://zenodo.org/records/16936633
#DraCorSummit #DraCor #EnvironmentalHumanities
Capitalist LLMs are eating our smart & open humanities data and mashing it into gigantic word porridge... How can we reverse it? — @peertrilcke@fedihum.org speaks about the MCP-empowered LLM Usage of #DraCor (or "How to teach Claude use the DraCor API")
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13774
#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:
https://zenodo.org/records/16936633
#ProgrammableCorpora
Luca Giovannini 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
https://dracor.org/eng
From Ancient Greek to 20th-century Yiddish, from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference is happening today at #DraCorSummit! 🎭
18 corpora presentations in total — full program: https://summit.dracor.org/corpora_conference
What is a scene in a novel? And how do we teach computers to detect them? (SPOILER: no, tossing it into the latest GPT does NOT solve it!) A deep & thoughtful study of ✂️scene segmentation✂️ in US romance novels by @SvenjaGuhr@fedihum.org, Huijun Mao, Fengyi Lin, Alexander Sherman, and Mark Algee-Hewitt:
https://github.com/literarylab/scene_segmentation
A great combo of theoretical grounding and extensive practical testing!
Do LLMs turn coders into „code-readers“ / „evaluators“? How do we teach Python when every beginner student can generate code that’s better and more complex than anything they can master in years of learning? Is the old teaching pipeline with data types, if-else-s, loops, functions and so on… DONE? Shall we teach code interpretation like complex text interpretation? Discussing at #DH2025
Stylo package got the Antonio Zampolli prize 🏆🎉
Congrats to Maciej Eder, Mike Kestemont, Jan Rybicki, Joanna Byszuk, and everyone involved with the Computational Stylistics Group! 👏👏👏
The prize is awarded every 3 years for outstanding output in #DigitalHumanities Previous recipients were Voyant Tools, TEI, Ray Siemens, and Chad Gaffield
#DH2025 #stylometry #Lisboa #Lisbon
Let the #DH2025 conference officially begin 🎉 #Lisboa #DigitalHumanities #Lisbon #openscience
🧑🏫💻 Will chalkboards survive in the digital world? We were surprised to see how useful this old-fashioned medium proved to be during our #DHSpringSchool — workshop leaders were so eager to use it for quick explanations 💁 Here Artjoms Şeļa is asking the participants to rate their lunch at @unipotsdam@wisskomm.social’s Mensa and immediately plots the distribution with chalk (to end up with a nice Gaussian)
#AnalogHumanities #DigitalHumanities
Aligning a historical 19 century map with a modern GIS to create a historically enriched map of the geotagged locations in Kidnapped by R.L. Stevenson
A #DHSpringSchool workshop by @dinara@mstdn.social and Leif Isaksen #Geohumanities #DigitalHumanities #Geocoding
A very fitting painting 🐴 at the wall of the @AarhusUni@mastodon.world for the (awesome) talk on the Animacy in German Folktales by Julian Häußler @JulianHaeussler@fedihum.org, Janis von Keitz and Evelyn Gius @EvelynGius@fedihum.org 👏
„Environments in and as Networks: a Digital Humanities Hackathon“ starts this very moment, launched by Birgit Schneider and Peer Trilcke #EcoHack2026
Hackathon webpage: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/digital-humanities/aktivitaeten/environmental-digital-humanities-hackathon