Interesting links
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- Final Action Event
- Call for Applications for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) and Virtual Mobility Grants (VMG) – Spring 2022
- Distant Reading Compendium
- Action Objectives
- Action Timeline
- Activities
- Antwerp Working Group Meeting
- Application process for STSMs (Spring 2022)
- Application process for VMG (Spring 2022)
- Budapest Training School
- Call for Applications for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) and Virtual Mobility Grants (VMG) – Summer 2021
- Call for Applications to the Galway Training School (5-7 December 2018)
- Call for Applications to the Named Entity Recognition & Geo-Tagging for Literary Analysis Training School (22-25 March 2021)
- Call for Applications: Budapest Training School (23-25 September 2019)
- Call for STSMs (Spring 2018)
- Call: Training School on Optical Character Recognition and Text Encoding for the production of ELTeC contributions
- Closing Conference Programme – Zoom links
- Distant Reading for European Literary History (COST Action CA16204)
- Events
- First Call for STSM Applications – Grant Period 2
- Galway Training School 2018
- Grant Period 1
- Grant Period 2
- Grant Period 3
- Guidelines for Handling of New Projects
- Imprint
- Joint Action Meeting in Lisbon, 2019
- Málaga Meeting 2020
- Management Structure
- News
- Online Named Entity Recognition & Geo-Tagging for Literary Analysis Training School
- Other Resources
- Privacy policy
- Second Call for STSM Applications in Grant Period 2
- STSMs
- Third Call for STSM Applications in Grant Period 2
- Training School Materials
- WG 1 Scholarly Resources / ELTeC
- WG 2 Methods and tools
- WG 3 Literary Theory and History
- WG 4 Dissemination
- Working Groups
- Würzburg Training School
- Action Deliverables
- Application process for STSMs (summer 2021)
- Call for Applications for Short Term Scientific Missions (Winter 2019)
- Closing Conference Programme
- European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC)
- Publications
- Application process for VMG (Summer 2021)
- Calls
- The Network of the Action
- Publications from outside the Action
- How to join the Action!
- Presentations
- Videos
- A Map of our Action members

Distant Reading in Portuguese
Associated Projects, Events, Our NetworkThe First Workshop on Distant Reading in Portuguese will take place on 27-28 October 2019 at the University of Oslo, and will feature a presentation on our COST Action on Distant Reading for European Literary History by Isabel Araújo Branco, Diana Santos, Paulo Silva Pereira and Raquel Amaro. At the conference, which features additional presentations […]
The HAI-RO project: a new offshoot of the Distant Reading COST Action
Associated Projects, Our NetworkWe are very happy to announce that Action members Roxana Patraș and Ioana Galleron received approval for funding their project HAI-RO (Hajduk Novels in Romania During the Long Nineteenth Century: Digital Edition and Corpus Analysis Assisted by Computational Tools) within the “Brâncuși” Program for Integrated Actions. Even if the acronym HAI-RO originally stood for “Romanian […]
Distant Reading Recommends: Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov
Distant Reading RecommendsThe third article of the Distant Reading Recommends series is written by Ellie Boyadzhieva of the South-West University of Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria. She describes a prominent revolutionary novel from the Bulgarian tradition whose enduring popularity is felt to this day. In Distant Reading Recommends, an Action member introduces a novel, published between 1850 and 1920, from one of […]
Call for Applications for the third Distant Reading Training School: Budapest, 23-25 September 2019 (extended deadline! July 15, 2019)
UncategorizedThe COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History is issuing a Call for Applications for its third Training School, hosted by the Centre for Digital Humanities – Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest from September 23 to 25, and co-located with the DH_Budapest 2019 conference http://elte-dh.hu/conf2019/. Note that participation is free of charge! Applicants may apply […]
Distant Reading Recommends: Iancu Jianu by N. D. Popescu
Distant Reading RecommendsThe second article of the Distant Reading Recommends series is written by Roxana Patras of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi in Romania. Her piece describes a notable hajduk novel, from a genre which followed the adventures of these romanticised hero figures of the Balkans. In Distant Reading Recommends, an Action member introduces a novel, […]
Distant Reading Recommends: Kuprelis (The Hunchback) by Ignas Šeinius
Distant Reading RecommendsThis is the first of a new occasional series of articles called Distant Reading Recommends. In each article, an Action member will introduce a novel, published between 1850 and 1920, from one of the participating countries in our Action. These novels may be important or notable within the individual nation’s literary tradition, but less well-known in […]
Research Funding Success for Action Members
Associated Projects, Our Network, UncategorizedAction members Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp) and Maciej Eder (Polish Academy of Sciences) are happy to report that they have recently secured funding for a three-year, collaborative research project, following a joint call of the Research agency of Flanders (FWO) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS). The project can be considered a spin-off […]
Methods & Tools: a Report on the Distant Reading Training School
Events, Our NetworkThis guest post, written by Monika Barget, project manager at the Centre for Digital Humanities, Maynooth University, Ireland, reports on one of the two recent Distant Reading Training Schools that were held at the inaugural European Association for Digital Humanities Conference in Galway, Ireland. Two of my colleagues from Maynooth University and I attended the COST […]
Distant Reading in China
Our NetworkThis guest post was written by Action Member Dr Pieter Francois (WG1 & WG3), Associate Professor in Cultural Evolution at Oxford University. Over the past six months I have been in extensive contact with Professor Tao Wang and his Digital History Centre at Nanjing University, China. Our mutual friend, Simon Mahoney (University College London), who […]
Information Science and Distant Reading: an Industry Perspective
Events, Our NetworkFollowing our recent Action meetings in Antwerp, WG2 member and Chief Content Architect at Wolters Kluwer Germany, Christian Dirschl, offered the following thoughts on our project from his perspective as an Information Scientist working in an industrial setting. At the beginning of October, I participated in the meeting of Working Groups 2 and 3 in […]