Organised in collaboration between EXC 2020, the project DraCorOS. Fostering Open Science in Digital Humanities, the Chair of Digital Humanities at Freie Universität Berlin and the Network for Digital Humanities at University of Potsdam.

Hosted by Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Potsdam, this five-day event will bring together researchers in computational literary studies, cultural analytics, and adjacent fields to present and discuss their research and corpus projects.

DraCor – short for Drama Corpora – is a digital ecosystem dedicated to the study of drama from antiquity to the 20th century. The multilingual community project follows the principles of open science. We currently maintain 28 drama corpora encoded in TEI with a total of over 4,000 annotated full texts of plays in 22 languages. It is the basis for a very vibrant research landscape around the computational research of drama corpora. Since the beginning of 2024 alone, more than 50 monographs and scientific articles have been published worldwide that work with DraCor data.

The DraCor Summit aims to provide an overview of the current state of an important field of computational literary studies and a space for the exchange of experiences. Various formats will be offered for this purpose, ranging from workshops, lectures, discussion rounds through to hackathon sessions. 

The five days will focus on different areas:

• On Monday, 1 September 2025, there will be DraCorOS Training Sessions on topics such as corpus building in the context of DraCor and working with the DraCor API. In the evening, the summit will be officially opened with a keynote by Clarisse Bardiot (Université Rennes 2).
• On Tuesday, 2 September 2025, the first DraCor Corpora Conference will take place. It will feature 18 presentations focusing on the achievements and challenges involved in developing and maintaining individual corpora. Many current – and future – corpus maintainers will share insights into their work.
• On Wednesday, 3 September 2025, there will be a Workshop on Computational Drama Analysis, focusing on latest advances in computational and quantitative methods for the study of drama.
• On Thursday, 4 September 2025, the DraCor Barcamp will provide the framework for an open, participant-driven unconference where you can help shape the agenda. You can register for the Barcamp during the general registration for the DraCor Summit.
• Optionally, on Friday, 5 September 2025, there will be co-working opportunities for further pursuing and developing ideas inspired by the DraCor Summit.