The DraCor Textbook is a curated, pedagogically structured Open Educational Resource (OER) developed by the DraCorOS team. It complements (rather than replaces) the community-driven DraCor Notebooks by offering a coherent learning path for working with DraCor’s programmable drama corpora.
The textbook is published as a Jupyter Book website (GitHub Pages) and is under active development.
This textbook is designed for:
- MA students in the humanities with little or no Digital Humanities background
- Library and Information Science students
- Self-study learners and classroom teaching contexts
- Learners with no prior programming experience required (core chapters)
The book source lives in docs/:
docs/— Jupyter Book source (markdown files / notebooks,_config.yml,_toc.yml, images, etc.)docs/_static/— static assets (logo, favicon, etc.)docs/images/— images used in chapters (recommended: per-chapter subfolders)docs/references.bib— shared bibliography (BibTeX)binder/— Binder configuration (optional)
Prerequisites:
- Python 3.11 (recommended)
pip
Install dependencies:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txtBuild the book with:
jupyter-book clean docs --all
jupyter-book build docs --all
This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. To view a copy of this licence, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Rojas Castro, Antonio; Fischer, Frank; Trilcke, Peer; Börner, Ingo; Beine, Julia Jennifer; Skorinkin, Daniil (eds.) 2026. DraCor Textbook. Book 1. https://github.com/dracor-org/dracor-textbook. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
[Author]: [Chapter Title]. In Rojas Castro, Antonio; Fischer, Frank; Trilcke, Peer; Börner, Ingo; Beine, Julia Jennifer; Skorinkin, Daniil (eds.) 2026. DraCor Textbook. Book 1. https://github.com/dracor-org/dracor-textbook. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.