Structured event descriptions that facilitate the development of digital hermeneutics are sparse or biased to- wards a specific collection or topic. The development of dig- ital hermeneutics in the historical domain is therefore chal- lenged by the current state-of-the-art in language technology to extract the event information from texts. In this section, we identify the main challenges we face in the automatic creation of historical narratives for digital hermeneutics.[..]