The document summarizes the POSTDATA project, which aims to ease humanist research through the digital transformation of philology. The project addresses barriers caused by different conceptualizations of poetry across traditions and lack of standardization. It develops an ontology for poetry as linked open data to enable interoperability. The workplan involves analyzing concepts to develop a shared abstract model, designing a platform for storing and analyzing poetry, and implementing the model and platform over five years through interdisciplinary teamwork and training. The project expects to yield improved research collaboration and results through open-access resources and further applications.