The second panel of the DHLU 2013 Symposium, moderated by Claudine Moulin from the University of Trier, explores the central theme of ‘Distant/close reading’ through three presentations. The first is given by Pauline Van Wierst, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Stefan Schlobach and Arianna Betti, who have developed the tool: ‘Phil@Scale: Computational methods within philosophy’. Lars Wieneke, Head of the CVCE’s Information and Technology Department, and Marten Düring, Researcher at the CVCE, then present ‘Humanist-machine interaction for the digital humanities’. To conclude this panel, Frederik Elwert from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum presents his paper entitled ‘Network analysis between distant reading and close reading’.