DraCor Corpora Conference

The DraCor Corpora Conference is part of the DraCor Summit 2025. It will take place on Tuesday, 2 September 2025.

As of now, the DraCor platform maintains 28 corpora in 22 languages, comprising more than 4,000 plays encoded in TEI/XML, ranging from Greek antiquity to the second half of the 20th century (sorted by number of plays):

  • FreDraCor, GerDraCor, EngDraCor, RusDraCor, CalDraCor, DutchDraCor, ItaDraCor, HunDraCor, SweDraCor, UDraCor, GreekDraCor, AmDraCor, GerShDraCor, ShakeDraCor, RomDraCor, PolDraCor, AlsDraCor, SpanDraCor, YiDraCor, TatDraCor, BashDraCor, including some in the making: ArDraCor, CzeDraCor, GeorgDraCor, HeDraCor, JesDraCor, NeoLatDraCor, RoDraCor

The DraCor Corpora Conference is intended as an opportunity for corpus maintainers to present their corpora in dedicated 10-minute presentations. This insight into various corpora is especially intended to discuss structural problems, facilitate corpus alignments, foster the exchange of workflows and present innovative approaches to corpus building. Anyone working on corpus projects is invited to apply, including colleagues whose corpora are not yet part of the DraCor environment.

When applying, please provide:

  • Name of corpus or project
  • Corpus coverage (temporally, spatially)
  • Information on corpus maintainers and participating institutions
  • URL and/or repository of the corpus, if available
  • Encoding format (if not already TEI/XML)
  • 300–500 words on the status of the respective corpus project and the expected benefits of a conference contribution

The round of corpus presentations will be followed by cross-corpora discussions about general workflows, alignment and other strategies to build and maintain a corpus in the DraCor ecosystem.

Please send your abstract in PDF format to info@dracor.org by 6 May 2025, stating “submission corpora conference” in the subject line.

Organisers of the DraCor Corpora Conference: Laura Untner, Frank Fischer (Freie Universität Berlin)