The DraCor Barcamp takes place on Thursday, 4 September 2025.

Venue (Seminar Centre):
Room L113
Seminarzentrum der Freien Universität Berlin
Freie Universität Berlin
Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26
14195 Berlin-Dahlem

A Barcamp is an open, participatory event format (also called an »unconference«). Barcamps have no predefined speakers or rigid schedules. Instead, participants create the agenda themselves.

Important: You have to be registered at the DraCor Summit to take part in the DraCor Barcamp.

General Outline

9:15–9:30 · Registration and Welcome Coffee

9:30–09:45 · Welcome & Introduction to the Barcamp Format

9:45–10:15 · Session Pitching: Participants Propose Topics

10:15–11:00 · Session 1

  • DraCor quality control and peer review
  • Encoding multilingualism

11:00–11:30 · Coffee Break ☕

11:30–12:15 · Sessions 2

  • Linking characters in DraCor
  • Chinese Shakespeare Corpus (source repo)

11:30–12:15 · Sessions 3

  • DraCor data papers
  • Metacorpora in DraCor

13:00–14:00 · Lunch Break 🥣

14:00–15:30 · 3rd World Championship: Battle of the Plays 🏆

15:30–16:00 · Coffee Break ☕

16:00–16:45 · Sessions 4

  • Teaching DraCor: The DraCor textbook
  • <sourceDesc> improvement (#107)

16:45–17:30 · Sessions 5

  • Enhancing DraCor corpus descriptions
  • Ask eXist-db anything

Registered Barcamp Participants

  • Jan Angermeier
  • Ksenia Anisimova
  • Olivier Aubert
  • Julia Jennifer Beine
  • Ingo Börner
  • Louis Burnard
  • Joris Dolderer
  • Frank Fischer
  • Luca Giovannini
  • Tabeer Khilji
  • Juri Leino
  • Jonah Lubin
  • Carsten Milling
  • Dennis Mischke
  • Yael Netzer
  • Leonid Nezhinskiy
  • Eugenia Nicolaci
  • Eric Omazu
  • Charles Pletcher
  • Erik Renz
  • Antonio Rojas
  • Mareike Schumacher
  • Melanie Seltmann
  • Daniil Skorinkin
  • Henny Sluyter-Gäthje
  • Sara Taha Eltaher Ibrahim
  • EnDe Tang
  • Peer Trilcke
  • Aura Cristina Udrea
  • Laura Untner
  • Roya Zendebudie