DraCorOS: Fostering Open Science in Digital Humanities

Corpora
Network Analysis
Open Science
User Studies
Open Workflows, Shared Standards, and Sustainable Infrastructure for Drama Corpora.

Status: Ongoing (2024–2026)
Lead Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin & University of Potsdam
Funding: EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)

DraCorOS is an interdisciplinary project aimed at enhancing the DraCor ecosystem (https://dracor.org), a TEI-based platform for the computational analysis of over 4,000 plays from the ancient to the modern period. The project focuses on aligning DraCor with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) by expanding its Linked Open Data components, improving corpus validation and alignment, and developing training materials and reproducible workflows for researchers.

In addition to publishing Jupyter-based teaching resources in Python and supporting the international DraCor user community, the project actively collects feedback through surveys, interviews, and focus groups. DraCorOS also organizes Open Science workshops and community events to foster dialogue, collaboration, and sustainable, community-driven infrastructures in the Digital Humanities.