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About CLARIAH-AT
CLARIAH-AT is the consortium of Austrian universities, research and GLAM institutions that coordinates and drives Austrian activities in the European ESFRI research infrastructures CLARIN-ERIC (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) and DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities).
The consortium, led by Walter Scholger (consortium speaker) and Tanja Wissik (deputy consortium speaker), brings together Austrian institutions with relevant expertise in research, development and teaching in the field of Digital Humanities as well as in the establishment and sustainable operation of research (data) infrastructures, which also play an active role in the Austrian development of Digital Humanities and the establishment and expansion of technical and social infrastructures for the humanities in general.
Austrian researchers were involved in both CLARIN-ERIC and DARIAH-EU research infrastructures during the preparatory phase and have made substantial contributions to them at both the local and European levels. Thanks to the support of the then Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, Austria was able to become a founding member of both consortia (CLARIN 2012, DARIAH 2014).
In 2014, the Austrian Academy of Sciences was entrusted by the Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (formerly: Federal Ministry of Science and Research) with the coordination of local activities. In June 2019, the core group of CLARIAH-AT reconstituted itself by signing a consortium agreement between the participating institutions, which was extended indefinitely in March 2021.
Members
University for Continuing Education Krems
University of music and performing arts vienna
Advisory Board
In addition to networking and collaboration with Austrian institutions and colleagues from the fields of Digital Humanities, memory institutions and research data management, we strive to involve representatives of the pertinent ministries and research funding bodies directly in both our communication and strategy.
The advisory board provides an opportunity for direct communication between the consortium and DH community, and the ministries and funding bodies, in order to define and implement strategies and efficient measures for the sustainable further development of Digital Humanities in Austria.
Marlene Antretter, Federal Ministry of Women, Science and Research (BMFWF)
Max Arends, Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
Sabine Fauland, Österreichischer Museumsbund
Manfred Gruber, Federal Chancellery Republic of Austria (BKA)
Nina Knieling, Verband der österreichischen Archivarinnen und Archivare (VÖA)
Barbara Sanchez Solis, EOSC Support Office Austria
Pamela Stückler, Verband der österreichischen Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare (VÖB)
Toma Tasovac, Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities ERIC (DARIAH)
Martin Ure, Federal Ministry Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKKMS)
Andreas Witt, Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure Consortium (CLARIN-ERIC)
National DH Strategy
In 2015, the group was commissioned by the responsible ministry to develop a strategic document, the DH-Austria Strategy, which served as a roadmap for the sustainable establishment of the Digital Humanities in Austria.
The new strategy paper Digital Humanities Austria Strategy 2021+ (EN) is based on preliminary work by the consortium and a consultation of the Austrian professional community in the field of Digital Humanities. It defines four guidelines for the future development of Digital Humanities in Austria and serves as a work program for the CLARIAH-AT consortium:
Research infrastructures and networks
Research data and repositories
Methods, and tools
Education, training and knowledge transfer
In the current work period 2024-26, the CLARIAH-AT consortium is carrying out a diverse program of activities to advance and support the further development of Digital Humanities in Austria. In addition to networking events and workshops, the CLARIAH-AT consortium is particularly committed to promoting DH projects and young scholars.
Activities
The consortium members are actively involved in numerous bodies at the European level. Particularly noteworthy are:
DARIAH-EU
DARIAH stands for Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.
DARIAH enhances and supports digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH is a network of people, expertise, information, knowledge, content, methods, tools and technologies from its member countries. It develops, maintains and operates an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices and sustains researchers in using them to build, analyse and interpret digital resources.
CLARIAH-AT consortium members are actively involved in the following DARIAH-Committees:
National Coordinator’s Committee (NCC)
Each DARIAH Member Country has its own National Coordinator, who oversees DARIAH activities in his or her country on behalf of its national membership consortium. These activities are the setting up of a national road map for the digitally enabled arts and humanities, and coordinating the submission of in-kind contributions, such as the tools, services, software, collections, expertise and researcher networks that are established as a result of implementing the respective national road map.
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Joint Research Committee (JRC)
The JRC organises the integration of DARIAH’s technical developments and innovation activities. It is chaired by DARIAH’s Chief Integration Officer (CIO) and consists of the Heads of each of DARIAH’s Virtual Competency Centres.
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DARIAH Working Groups
Working groups are joint activities in DARIAH. They are self-organized and work in a strategic area that is defined by DARIAH's Virtual Competence Centres. Their activities are complementary to individual contributions from DARIAH members. Working groups always have a certain purpose: They lead to services for the community, which can be scholarly, technical, editorial or organisational. This means, they contribute to building up and extending the DARIAH infrastructure.
Members of the CLARIAH-AT Consortium are contributing to the following Working Groups:
Multilingual DH
The DARIAH-EU Multilingual DH Working Group (WG) aims at enhancing digitally-enabled research in under-resourced languages and dialects. It gathers scholars from diverse languages, who will assess the adaptation of existing tools to new languages and will develop tools to address the specific challenges represented by these languages. As an emerging interdisciplinary field, the Multilingual DH WG works in close collaboration with DARIAH’s experts, VCCs and existing WGs to achieve its goals and sustain high-quality, sustainable and ethical multilingual research, methods, materials, standards, and tools.
Activities of this Working Group:
Developing tutorials adapted to scholars in the Humanities with no or limited previous experience;
Assessment and development of multilingual DH tools and programming libraries, datasets and standards;
Two main meetings a year for all members and additional smaller meetings for organisational and networking purposes (Bimonthly Shorts);
Organisation of networking workshops and online events on specific multilingual challenges and initiatives with experts to answer questions and brainstorm useful solutions.
ELDAH (Ethics and Legality in the Digital Arts and Humanities)
In the age of digital information technology and the constant availability of information through the Internet, it is not only important to have democratic access to knowledge, but also essential to consider the potential that lies in the critical production and expansion of knowledge.
Of particular interest and concern to cultural heritage institutions and Humanities scholars are issues of copyright on, provision of and access to digitized material. There is a recognizable political drive in the European Union to facilitate free and public access to cultural heritage and research data in general hosted at publicly funded institutions. However, the lack of legal harmonization and the diverse and often unclear national legislations on the use and provision of resources by public cultural heritage or research and education institutions has been prohibiting a much broader engagement.
DH Course Registry
The DH Course Registry offers a map-based search environment that gives access to a database that contains information on Digital Humanities courses. 
The goal of the DH Course Registry is to provide information to:
students and researchers who intend to take up a study in the field of Digital Humanities
lecturers who are looking for examples of good practices in the DH field or want to promote their own DH-related teaching activities and material, and
administrators who aim to attract and facilitate international student and staff mobility and exchange.
#dariahTeach
The #dariahTeach Working Group provides and promotes the creation and dissemination of high-quality teaching and training materials for researchers and students interested in Digital Humanities tools, methods and approaches.
Тhe Working Group is designing and implementing an open-source, multilingual platform for sharing, disseminating and preserving digital humanities teaching and training materials.
Thesaurus Maintenance
This Working Group aims at designing and establishing an overarching thesaurus for the humanities, focussing on identifying the top-level-concepts (facets and hierarchies) that become its common basis, meeting the demands for objectivity and interdisciplinarity. In this effort they exploit all the advantages offered by categorical semantics, in order to define the essential properties of the general concepts under which they subsume more specific terms. The definition of the essential properties of the top level-concepts, which are acceptable regardless of the scientific field in which they apply, enables the classification in a consistent and objective way. One of the major advantages of this kind of classification is the potential of a sustainable and manageable expansion of the thesauri into new areas of knowledge, in which it continues to be effective and efficient, without forcing the experts to abandon their terminology. Furthermore, it enables collaboration, cross-disciplinary resource discovery, and detection of common principles and ensures compatibility with other thesauri that are restricted to particular areas of knowledge.
Community Engagement
Engagement with digital tools, methods and content is an emerging practice for a majority of Arts and Humanities research practitioners. The best method for stimulating engagement, increasing awareness and creative use of the large volume of research data being digitised across Europe and elsewhere, as well as promoting research infrastructures, is to support communities of researchers in coming together to learn one from another, express their needs and share new ideas.
An overview of all DARIAH Working Groups is available on the DARIAH website.
CLARIN-ERIC
CLARIN stands for Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure and ERIC stands for European Research Infrastructure Consortium.
CLARIN is a digital infrastructure which provides easy and sustainable access to a broad range of language data and tools to support research in the humanities and social sciences, and beyond. CLARIN provides access to multimodal digital language data (text, audio, video) and advanced tools with which to explore, analyse or combine these datasets.
CLARIAH-AT consortium members are actively involved in the following CLARIN-Committees:
User Involvement Committee (UIC)
The User Involvement Committee (UIC) is a committee that reports to the Board of CLARIN Directors. Its main responsibility is to facilitate and promote CLARIN user involvement activities, such as surveys, reports, financing instruments and outreach.
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CLARIN Legal Issues Committee (CLIC)
The CLARIN Legal and Ethical Issues Committee (CLIC) is a permanent committee that reports to the Board of Directors. Its main responsibility is to advise the Board of Directors on all issues related to IPR, privacy and data protection and ethical matters, as well as legal issues related to access and dissemination policies ('legal and ethical issues')and their implementation.
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Standards and Interoperability Committee (SIC)
The main responsibility of the Standards and Interoperability Committee (SIC) is to advise the Board of Directors on the adoption of standards to be supported by CLARIN.
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Technical Centres Committee (TCC)
The Technical Centres Committee (TCC) is a permanent committee that reports to the Board of Directors. Its main responsibility is to ensure consistence, coherence and stability of infrastructure services through decisions on implementation as well as coordination between the centres and members.
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Knowledge Infrastructure Committee (KIC)
The Knowledge Infrastructure Committee (KIC) ensures that the available knowledge and expertise in the CLARIN network is made accessible in an organised way to both the CLARIN community and the social sciences and humanities research community more widely.
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National Coordinators' Forum (NFC)
The National Coordinators' Forum (NCF) is a permanent Committee that reports to the Board of Directors. Its main responsibility is to ensure the coordination of the implementation of the strategies laid out by the General Assembly. The Forum shall have to maintain coherence and consistency across CLARIN and collaboration between the members.
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CLARIN-AT Centres
There are several types of CLARIN centres: B-centres, C-centres and K-centres, each offering different kinds of expertise and services. For a comprehensive list of all established CLARIN centres, see the overview of CLARIN centres.
Currently, there are five CLARIN Centres operating in Austria:
CLARIN B Centres
The backbone of CLARIN is provided by technical centres, known as Service Providing Centres or CLARIN B-centres: They offer the scientific community access to resources, services and knowledge on a sustainable basis.
ACDH: ARCHE (Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities - A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs)
ACDH is a research institute at the [Austrian Academy of Sciences](/organisations/austrian-academy-of-sciences) offering services for the DH community.
DH-Graz: GAMS (Department of Digital Humanities - Geisteswissenschaftliches Asset Management System)
The [Department of Digital Humanities](/organisations/department-of-digital-humanities) (DDH) at the University of Graz is a leading location for digital humanities in Austria. Focus is on the semantic and formal indexing and mediation of digital representations of cultural artifacts. Key areas include research into the effects of digitalization on methodological approaches and knowledge processes, maintenance and further development of the trusted digital repository GAMS and respective training in the field of digital humanities.
Expertise: Digital Scholarly Edition, long-term preservation, research data management, Digital Museology, Digital History
CLARIN K Centres
K-centres share their knowledge and expertise on one or more aspects of the domain covered by the CLARIN infrastructure.
The focus of CLARIN is on language resources (in all modalities, from all regions and with any topical orientation) and K-centres serve researchers and educators from any discipline where language plays one of its many roles, ranging from object of study, a means of communication or expression, a means to store and extract information, object of learning or teaching activities, to training source for data-driven analytics, and many others.
TRTC - Terminology Resources and Translation Corpora
This K-Centre is located at the University of Vienna, Centre for Translation Studies:
The K-centre provides information and training to users on the preparation and documentation of translation-related resources, in particular terminology resources and translation corpora. This includes inquiries submitted to the Helpdesk related to tools, methods, data, and guidance in seeking further expert support. The service does not focus on language resources in particular languages, but is language independent.
PhA-OeAW: Phonogrammarchiv / Austrian Academy of Sciences
The Phonogrammarchiv is a multi-disciplinary archive of research recordings in sound and video, housing collections since 1899 and from all over the world.
GermanAT: CLARIN K-Centre on German in Austria
This centre unites scholars of the German language, its variation and contact in Austria. It encompasses a variety of research projects and offers expertise in and advice on research on language variation in Austria (mainly, but not limited to German).
Expertise: recordings in the fields of cultural and social anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, linguistics, sociology, zoology, etc.
Earlier Activities
Part of earlier CLARIAH-AT activities were the three go!digital calls in 2014, 2016 and 2018, which were competitively advertised and organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences with funding from the Austrian National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development. The 30 projects selected by international experts promote the development and use of innovative digital methods in Austrian humanities research. In addition, 20 CLARIAH-AT funded projects are in the implementation phase (or have recently been completed).
Press Kit
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The CLARIAH-AT logo can be used by partners, CLARIAH-AT consortium members, and researchers working with CLARIAH-AT to easily refer to CLARIAH-AT.
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The font to be used within the CLARIAH-AT identity is DM Sans, both for online (web) and offline (print) use.
Templates
We provide templates for CLARIAH-AT project reports below:
Contact
For general enquiries: office@clariah.at
For enquiries on funding opportunities: early-career@clariah.at
DHA Email List
Stay up to date about Digital Humanities (DH) activities in Austria: Members of the DHA list do not only receive information about events, open calls & much more, but are also eligible to send out upcoming activities from the Austrian DH landscape to members of this list. If you wish to become a member of the DHA mailing list, kindly write an email to dha-join@lists.oeaw.ac.at and respond to the confirmation email.