Digital Humanities Potsdam
dhpotsdam.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Potsdam
@dhpotsdam.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Network
University of Potsdam, Germany
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/digital-humanities/
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...
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🍃 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...
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🚀 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
October 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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💁‍♂️
September 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"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
September 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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
September 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The #DraCorSummit Barcamp turned into an actual camp 🏕️
Discussing characters & types on #DraCor under apple trees🌳
Waiting for a Newtonian 🍏 eureka 😜
September 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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
September 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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...
September 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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...
September 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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
September 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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
September 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“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...
September 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
30,000 linked theatre programs! 🤩 Clarisse Bardiot demonstrates how theatre archives become structured data at the #DraCorSummit
September 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Performances dissolve in the darkness of the stage.” — Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) at #DraCorSummit, on turning theatre programmes into structured data with ontologies and the role of LLMs in that process 🎭🤖

#DraCor
September 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Corpus Archeology of @dracor.org in action: „In 2020 the pandemic hits, Frank @umblaetterer.bsky.social gets more time to encode plays — and we see it in the number of documents on the GerDraCor github“ 📈🧑‍💻
#DracorSummit #ProgrammableCorpora
September 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The first ever #DraCorSummit by @dracor.org is ready to start!
September 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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 DONE? Shall we teach code interpretation? Discussing at #DH2025
July 17, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Stylo got the Zampolli prize for outstanding output in #DigitalHumanities 🏆 Congrats to Maciej Eder, @mikekestemont.bsky.social, Jan Rybicki, Joanna Byszuk, and all involved with the Computational Stylistics Group!👏 Prev. recipients were Voyant Tools, TEI, R. Siemens, C. Gaffield
#DH2025 #stylometry
July 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Let the #DH2025 conference officially begin 🎉 #Lisboa #DigitalHumanities #Lisbon #OpenScience
July 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Live from Kraków: our own @danja.bsky.social presenting results from WP 7, focusing on the @dracor.org prototype, at the CLS INFRA Closing Event. #digitalhumanities
July 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
These day DH Potsdam is deep into co-running the Data Literacy Barcamp & Conference here in Potsdam City Centre. Link to the program (de):
www.quadriga-dk.de/de/quadriga-... (conference)
www.quadriga-dk.de/de/barcamp-d... (Barcamp)

And some pics for you 💁
June 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM