DraCor Textbook

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.

Scope and audience

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)

Repository structure

The book source lives in docs/:

• docs/ — Jupyter Book source (Markdown / 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)

Build locally

Prerequisites:

• Python 3.11 (recommended)
• pip

Install dependencies:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

Build the book with:

jupyter-book clean docs --all
jupyter-book build docs --all

Licence

This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0. To view a copy of this licence, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Suggested citation

[Chapter Title] from the DraCor Textbook by [Author Names] is licensed under CC BY 4.0.