We are very pleased to announce that our project has been selected for funding by OSCARS — the EU-funded project that “strives to foster the uptake of Open Science in Europe by consolidating the achievements of world-class European research infrastructures in the ESFRI roadmap and beyond into lasting interdisciplinary FAIR data services and working practices”.

Our project — DraCorOS: Fostering Open Science in Digital Humanities by connecting the “DraCor” Ecosystem to EOSC — runs for 24 months, starting 1 January 2025. It is coordinated by the University of Potsdam, with Freie Universität Berlin as a partner. The principal investigator is Peer Trilcke; the project team also includes Frank Fischer, Ingo Börner, and Antonio Rojas Castro.

What will DraCorOS do?

DraCorOS builds on DraCor, our community-driven platform for the computational study of drama, along three lines of work:

  1. Enhanced discoverability. We will transform DraCor into a semantically enriched Linked Open Data environment and integrate it with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), so DraCor corpora and services become visible, citable, and reusable alongside other European research infrastructures.
  2. Open Science promotion. We will deliver training and workflows that advance FAIR-data practices in Computational Literary Studies — addressing researchers who are building, curating, or analysing dramatic corpora, with particular attention to small and under-resourced European languages.
  3. Software development. We will continue to evolve the DraCor platform’s Programmable Corpora architecture as a standalone piece of open-source software, so that other disciplinary communities can adopt and adapt it for their own corpora.

Watch the project pitch

About this blog

This blog, blog.dracor.org, is itself an output of DraCorOS. We will use it to share project news, technical updates around DraCor in the context of DraCorOS, reports from workshops and community events, notes on our work on Linked Open Data, EOSC integration, and Open Science tooling for drama research, as well as updates on our teaching and training materials. Cross-posts from other sources, e.g. Frank Fischer’s long-running weltliteratur.net blog, will be clearly marked as such.

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Here’s to two years of open, programmable, and genuinely findable drama corpora. 🎭