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CLARIAH-AT Roadshow 2026

When: Monday, 9. November 2026, 9:00 - 14:00

Where: Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Baeckerstrasse 13, 1010 Vienna, Austria
seminar room 1 (accessible via the inner courtyard)

Registration: is mandatory via this registration form until 23. October 2026.

Please note that the room capacity is limited.

This year, the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences is hosting the CLARIAH-AT Roadshow: The event will take place on 9 November 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Vienna.

Projects funded under the 2024 and 2025 calls will present their results: During a lightning talk session, the small-scale projects will showcase their ideas, methods, and findings in a concise format, while their accompanying posters will be available online. The large-scale projects will provide more in-depth insights into their research activities, developments, and achievements in a separate programme session.

Join us and connect with the Austrian DH Community!

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Immediately following the CLARIAH-AT Roadshow, the Austrian National Library (ÖNB) will host the ÖNB Labs Symposium “Collections as Data – Biases as Data.” To facilitate attendance at both events, the Roadshow programme has been coordinated accordingly.

Programme

08:30 – 9:00: Welcome Coffee & Networking

9.00 - 9:15: Welcoming Words

Walter Scholger (CLARIAH-AT Consortium Speaker, National Coordinator for DARIAH-EU), Alexandra N. Lenz (Director of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, ACDH), Tanja Wissik (CLARIAH-AT Deputy Consortium Speaker, National Coordinator for CLARIN-ERIC)

09:15 –10:05 Session I - DH Project Medley

10:05 - 10:15: coffe break

10:15 - 11:30: Session II - Presentation of large-scale projects

11:30 – 11:40: coffee break

11:40 – 12:55: Block III - Lightning Talks (small-scale projects & events)

2024 funding round:

  • Musil Online – Lesetexte MoE: Konsolidierung der TEI-Daten - Artur R. Boelderl (University of Klagenfurt)
  • MHDBDB goes AI. Datenaufbereitung für das OER-LLM ParzivAI - Julia Hintersteiner, Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Alan Lena van Beek (University of Salzburg)
  • Empfehlungen zum akademischen Zitieren von digitalen Ressourcen - Emily Genatowski, Thomas Wallnig (University of Vienna)
  • Untersuchung von IIIF in Digitalen Editionen - Stephan Kurz (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • Sentiment-annotated corpus of Austrian historical newspapers - Lucija Brozic (University of Graz)

2025 funding round:

  • SALTA: Open-Source-Tool und Database zur Segmentierung multimodaler Performances - Adián Artacho (University of music and performing arts Vienna)
  • ÖNB Labs Video-Tutorials - Christoph Steindl (Austrian National Library)
  • Pilot Corpus for Tokenization and Lemmatization of Pannonian Rusyn – A First Step Towards Open Language Resources - Marko Simonovic (University of Graz)
  • Automatisierte Erfassung und semantische Erschließung der Vereinsauflösungen im „Amtlichen Nachrichtenblatt“ 1938–1940 - Markus Stumpf, Martin Gasteiner (University of Vienna)
  • Asynchrones Lernangebot für Themen aus dem Forschungsdatenmanagement - Helmut W. Klug (University of Graz)
  • Die Sammlung Amadei: Digitalisierung – Open Data – Public Outreach - Gernot Mayer (University of Vienna)
  • Gipsabgusssammlung des Fachbereichs Altertumswissenschaften in der Alten Residenz Salzburg – Erstellung einer digitalen Sammlung und eines virtuellen Rundgangs - Lydia Berger, Melissa Vetters, Alexander Sokolicek (University of Salzburg)
  • WB-DEA meets MHDBDB: Die Wenzelsbibel als Pilotmodell für interoperable Editionen - Julia Hintersteiner, Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (University of Salzburg)
  • Mapping Difficult Heritage. Digital Documentation of Colonial Traces in Austrian Urbanscapes - Markus Wurzer (University of Graz)
  • Gender, Networks, and Artistic Success: A Computational Analysis of Jazz History - Onur Tuncay Bal, Nathalia Altheman Loureiro, Mark Wittek (Central European University)
  • Publikation des “Tegernseer Wirtschaftsbüchlein” als hyperdiplomatische Transkription - Helmut W. Klug (University of Graz)

Events

  • ÖNB Labs Symposium 2024 (Vienna, November 2024) and respectively ÖNB Labs Symposium 2026 (Vienna, November 2026) - Christoph Steindl (Austrian National Library)
  • Hackathon zur Erstellung von Digitalen Educational Escape Rooms (Spanisch und Französisch als L2) (Klagenfurt, April 2025) - Jaime Climent de Benito (University of Klagenfurt)
  • UWK Summer School 2025 (Krems, July 2025) - Anja Grebe (University for Continuing Education Krems)
  • Summer School: Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions (Graz, September 2025) - Martina Scholger, Sarah Lang, Bernhard Geiger, Roman Bleier (University of Graz)
  • Institutionsübergreifender Kulturdaten-Hackathon – KulturDatenLab 2025 (Vienna, September 2025) - Julian Palacz, Daniela Apaydin, Philip Fischer (natural history museum vienna)
  • OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities (Vienna, October 2025) - Alíz Horváth (Central European University)
  • Workshop: Re-late – Re-Use – Re-Work. Potenziale für Varianten- und Intertextualitätsanalysen in den Digital Humanities (Vienna, December 2025) - Axel Pichler, Gabriel Viehhauser (University of Vienna)
  • Ringvorlesung Musikwissenschaft & Digital Humanities (Vienna, March 2026 - summer semester) - Melanie Unseld, Werner Goebl (university of music and performing arts vienna)
  • Digital Humanities Data Sprint (Klagenfurt, July 2026) - Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda (University of Klagenfurt)
  • Internationale Tagung „Digital History – Doing Cultural Heritage“ (Salzburg, September 2026) - Thomas Drew, Karoline Döring (University of Salzburg)
  • Support EURALEX 2026 “Lexicography in the age of AI (Vienna, September 2026) - Philipp Stöckle (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • CRASH: A Hackathon for Advanced Search in Cultural Heritage (Graz, November 2026) - Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner (University of Graz)

13:00 – 14:00: Standing Lunch, virtual Poster Gallery & Networking

14:00 ÖNB Pick-Up Service for the ÖNB Labs Symposium „Collections as Data – Biases as Data“

Projects, Posters and Events

Large-scale Projects

Data Analysis in the ÖNB Labs

This project aims to revise, expand, and better organize the collection of Jupyter Notebooks (JNBs) available in the ÖNB Labs (https://labs.onb.ac.at) and the associated GitLab (https://labs.onb.ac.at/gitlab/labs-team/). Based on a requirements analysis conducted at the start of the project, existing notebooks will be improved, and at least ten new JNBs will be developed, with content tailored to the identified research and teaching needs. In addition, a general introductory Jupyter Notebook will be developed, and a classification system for all JNBs will be introduced to improve the clarity and discoverability of the collection. To support knowledge transfer, an internal training session and an external workshop for the CLARIAH-AT community were also held.

Data Analysis in the ÖNB Labs
Zukunft Kulturpool Visuell

The project Zukunft Kulturpool Visuell invites visitors to dive into the holdings of Austria’s national cultural heritage portal kulturpool.at. Through interactive visualizations, users immerse themselves in a pool of collection objects whose taxonomic and spatial structures open up exploratory pathways into Austria’s digital cultural heritage. The project addresses both the research community and a broader public with an interest in cultural heritage. The experimental interface is available at https://demo.mindfactor.at/kulturpool/ and will be presented in light of the ongoing feedback and evaluation process.

Zukunft Kulturpool Visuell
Governance und Verstetigung DH-Infra.at

Governance und Verstetigung DH-Infra.at puts in place the organisational, legal and economic groundwork that allows the Austrian DH research infrastructure to keep running and to grow beyond the funding period: a governance model agreed with all partner institutions, comprising a steering group, a technical board and a central operations team; a complete and publicly documented set of service, privacy and technical policies (dhinfra.at/policy); data-processing agreements and federation membership through ACOnet/eduID under the REFEDS and GÉANT Codes of Conduct; the legal classification of the service under the EU AI Act; and a cost model on which financing scenarios can be built.

The infrastructure is operated in a distributed way, with each partner carrying its own running costs, which is what makes it independent of any single institution’s budget. The service in operation shows that the model works: since June 2026 researchers have used GPU compute, hosted language and embedding models through an open API, and browser notebooks; the platform is published as a reusable open-source package (github.com/dhinfra-at), so a further site can build on an existing technical and legal basis. A second aim of the work is to apply current AI methods and MLOps practice to humanities research questions (dhinfra.at/impact).

The governance model, the policy set, the federation membership and the cost model are in place and documented well enough for CLARIAH-AT and the participating DH centres to take over operation and coordination from 2027; in parallel we are preparing the integration of further DH compute sites and setting up special interest groups, beginning with automatic text recognition, to pool expertise and resources across institutions.

Governance und Verstetigung DH-Infra.at
CLARIAH-AT Platform

At the core of this initiative is the redesign and expansion of the existing website clariah.at into a comprehensive platform, that serves as a central information and presentation hub for projects, datasets, tools, services, training materials, and publications within Austria’s Digital Humanities community. The project is modular, encompassing technical development, design, and data integration: The technical development aligns with DARIAH-EU’s “Pathways” strategies, which promote structured, bidirectional integration of information flows between local systems and central European catalogues. Examples include tools from the SSH Open Marketplace or datasets from repositories such as ARCHE, GAMS, and PHAIDRA, made visible via OpenAIRE. A central aspect of the project is manual curation, i.e. reviewing and updating existing resources, as well as continuously expanding them.

CLARIAH-AT Platfrorm
Unlocking the full potential of textual resources – Application of FAIR data principles through CLARIN Federated Content Search Implementation

The abstract will be published soon. Until then, you can find more information about this project in the project description:

CLARIN FCS Implementation
Users First. Optimierung von User Interface, User Experience und Crowdsourcing an der Mittelhochdeutschen Begriffsdatenbank

The Middle High German Conceptual Database, a central digital resource for the study of Middle High German language and literature for over 50 years, was revised within the framework of the CLARIAH-AT-funded relaunch. The project “Users First” had two aims: first, the stabilization and optimization of the existing RDF-based infrastructure (now “MHDBDB Graph”) through performance optimizations, bug fixes, security measures, and a modular API mediation layer; second, the development of a new platform (now “MHDBDB Next”) based on TEI-XML-annotated texts. Alongside the classical search query, the client-based MHDBDB Next enables complex combined queries and contextualized searches, while also forming the basis for AI-supported workflows in the GitHub repository. The client-side architecture reduces dependencies and long-term operational effort, while the new, low-barrier frontend improves the user experience and facilitates contributions from the scientific community. The MHDBDB is now available via three interfaces and has been strengthened, through funding from CLARIAH-AT, as an open, collaborative platform in the Digital Humanities.

Users First.

Small-scale Projects (2024)

Project posters for the individual projects will be available here shortly - please check back soon.

Small-scale Projects (2025)

Project posters for the individual projects will be available here shortly - please check back soon.

Events (2024 & 2025)

The overview poster of CLARIAH-AT events will be displayed here soon.

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