3D-Digitizing of Glaser Squeezes
Many of the original inscriptions of ancient South Arabia are lost or inaccessible, but survived in squeezes made by Eduard Glaser. A new database with 3D-images will preserve them for the future.
Projects
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ABaC:us – Austrian Baroque Corpus
ABaC:us is a thematic collection of literary texts of the baroque era dealing with death.
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Account books Spängler Online (ASO)
This digital edition allows an insight into the consumption, daily life and the social relations of a merchant family in Salzburg during the 18th century.
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ACDH-CH OPEN DATA VIRTUAL HACKATHON - ROUND TWO!
The ACDH-CH organized a virtual Hackathon with the data of the DH Course Registry, a platform that provides an overview of DH teaching activities worldwide. The task was to develop a visualization this data. Here the 4 winning projects are presented.
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Aldersbach Chronicle
Digital Edition of the Annals of Abbot Gerhard Hörger for the monastery of Aldersbach
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Algorithm Inventarium (AI+)
There's still a general lack of knowledge about how algorithms surround us and determine everyday life in our cities and in many areas of human activity, invisibly and secretly operating through our digitized contexts.
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Alpenwort
Digitized and annotated corpus of the almanac of the Austrian alpine club 1872 – 1998.
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Ambraser Heldenbuch: Transcription and Scientific Dataset
Complete transcription of the 'Ambraser Heldenbuch' for the first time
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Andreas Okopenko: diaries from the poet's estate (hybrid edition)
The digital edition of Andreas Okopenko's early diaries brings to life the beginnings of Austrian avantgarde poetry and testifies to his role as hypertext-pioneer.
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Archaeological Collections of the University of Graz
Die Original- und Abgusssammlung des Instituts für Archäologie der Karl-Franzens-Universität.
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ARCHE
ARCHE (A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs) is a service for long term preservation as well as dissemination of digital research data and resources for the Austrian humanities community. ARCHE welcomes data from all humanities fields.
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Arthur Schnitzler – Correspondence with Writers
Online-Edition of the professional correspondence of Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931).
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Asynchronous learning resources on topics in research data management
The project develops asynchronous learning resources that enable self-directed and location-independent engagement with key topics in research data management.
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Atlas of the Viennese Avantgardes
The Atlas of the Viennese Avantgardes (AVA) establishes an internationally networked digital centre for researching and disseminating knowledge about the avant-gardes in Vienna.
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Austria literally
The audiovisual online archive of the Austrian media centre "Österreichische Mediathek"
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Austrian Land Registers
The project uses automated handwriting recognition and a Citizen Science application to index the Franziszeische Kataster (c. 1860) for the present-day province of Tyrol.
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Austrian radio journals from 1967 to 1999 - www.journale.at
Listening in on what happened 20, 30 or 40 years ago.
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Becoming Urban - Reconstructing the city of Graz in the long 19th century (BeUrb)
A geographic information system will be established in order to analyze and visualize the transformation of the city through time as well as its perception thereof during the process of urbanization.
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Bestand Millinger
Digitale Editionen der schriftlichen Hinterlassenschaften des Tiroler Bauern Leonhard Millinger
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Between Composition and Reception: the Authority of Medieval Charters – BeCoRe
BeCore aims at a comparative study of the textual and graphical signs of authority and validitation in late medieval charters in France and Austria, basing on the resources given by Monasterium.
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Bibliotheca Mozartiana digital
The digitisation portal Bibliotheca Mozartiana digital makes the historical holdings of the Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg, accessible for free, and links them with digital editions and research projects.
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Biodiversity, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. A Movement
The three-diversity movement aims to implement the UNESCO declaration of diversity through the development of an innovation ecosystem and to contribute to the achievement of Agenda2030 along the SDGs.
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Bring Your Project
Get support from Bring Your Project when using the ONB Labs
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Cantus Network
Cantus Netzwork – a semantically enriched digital edition of Libri ordinarii of the Salzburg metropolitan province
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Cataloguing the manuscripts from the library of Matthias Corvinus in Austria
An interdisciplinary team prepares in-depth description of manuscripts from the famous royal library in Buda. Images and TEI-P5 coded descriptions will be presented on a digital manuscript platform at the Austrian National Library.
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Celtic Divine Names in the Inscriptions of the Roman Province Germania Inferior
A Case Study on Religion in the Context of Cultural Contacts and Cultural Transfer. This database provides the edition of inscriptions forming part of the research project described below.
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CFIR.science - Roman small finds online
cfir.science is a web platform that makes information on Roman-age fibulae and dress components freely available in the form of images, 3D models and metadata.
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Charters Open Research Data
A Pilot for the Long-Term Preservation of Monasterium.net
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ChIA: Accessing and Analysing Cultural Images with New Technologies
Through the combined application of semantic technologies and artificial intelligence (AI), the project enables improved access, enrichment and analysis of a curated set of cultural food images.
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CIMA
The Centre of Image and Material Analysis in Cultural Heritage (CIMA) is an interuniversity research institution devoted to the digital recording and image analysis, chemical material analysis and documentation of written heritage.
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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.
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Unlocking the full potential of textual resources – Application of FAIR data principles through CLARIN Federated Content Search Implementation
The project aims to significantly enhance the findability and accessibility of Austrian textual resources for research and teaching.
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CO OP: Community as opportunity
The creative archives' and users' network
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Gender, Networks, and Artistic Success: A Computational Analysis of Jazz History
At the core of the project is the use of the Discogs database, which contains information on over 250,000 jazz musicians and their collaborations. By employing modern digital methods such as network analysis and machine learning, the dataset is enriched and analyzed to understand the role of gender and network positions in artistic success.
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Computer Vision for Digital Humanists
Computer Vision for Digital Humanities has become a very relevant skill for many, yet accessible instruction for an audience without a background in computer science remains scarce.
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CoReMA: Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages: Corpus, Analysis, Visualisation
For machine aided analysis a recipe corpus and its metadata are modelled according to international standards. The recipes are enriched by ontologies for ingredients, cooking processes, etc.
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Corpus Construction for Creation of new Writing & Speaking Rating Scales for the Entwicklungsverbund Süd-Ost
This project develops new, empirically grounded rating scales for the education of future English teachers, that respond both to current educational policy changes and to the possibilities offered by modern technologies such as AI.
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CRASH: A Hackathon for Advanced Search in Cultural Heritage
As part of a technical hackathon, advanced similarity search methods for cultural heritage data were tested and further developed. The project aims to bring together experts from the Digital Humanities, machine learning and software engineering to develop prototype solutions for semantic and multimodal search that can be openly reused.
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Cultural and Scientific Heritage of Styria
The digital processing, protection, publication and accessibility of Styrian cultural and scientific heritage and its aggregation on a common web portal.
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The DARIAH-EU ELDAH GDPR Consent Form Wizard
The aim of the CFW is to support humanities researchers within the European Union in obtaining valid consent for data processing in the context of their specific professional activity.
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Data Analysis in the ÖNB Labs
This project expands the Austrian National Library’s digital services. New Jupyter Notebooks make it possible to interactively analyze, visualize, and explore text, image, and catalog data for your own research projects – from beginners to experts.
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DEPCHA - Digital Edition Publishing Cooperative for Historical Accounts
The project aims to implement a publishing hub for digital editions of historical accounting records based on Web of Data technologies and LOD paradigms.
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Design 4 Emergency @ AT
#DesignForEmergency was started at the Center for Design / NEW as a global collaborative project with the aim of addressing the COVID19 crisis in a participatory manner and uniting it under a Design for Health initiative.
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Developing HuBERT: a Natural Language Processing algorithm for extending the Seshat Global History Databank
This project addresses the challenges of expanding and increasing the cross-utilization of historical datasets by developing a NLP algorithm that can help expand current databases and increase the translatability of data across projects.
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Dialect Cultures
Dialect Cultures - database of "Bavarian-Austrian dialects cultures before 1800"
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Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (WBÖ)
The project Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria is dedicated to the comprehensive documentation and lexicographic analysis of the various base and regional dialects of (historical) Austria.
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Die Korrespondenz von Leo von Thun-Hohenstein
Digitale online-Edition der Korrespondenz von Leo von Thun-Hohenstein
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Die Ministerratsprotokolle Österreichs und der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie 1848–1918
The digital scholarly edition documents governmental documents from the Monarchy's administrative legacy. 60 years of meeting minutes: a huge data trove of prosopographical, political, administrative, economic, cultural and social information.
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The Amadei Collection: Digitization – Open Data – Public Outreach
The project focuses on digitising and making accessible a significant portion of historical photographs from Count Albert Amadei's collection (1851–1894).
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DigiCulture – Improving the Digital Competences and Social Inclusion of Adults in Creative Industries
The project aims to create a sustainable and efficient education program dedicated to adult learners with low digital skills and low-qualified adults involved in the creative industries sector.
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Digital Edition Creation Pipelines: Tools and Transitions
The goal of the project is to create best practice guidelines and tutorials for the transitions between selected tools that are frequently used in digital editing. These tutorials and guidelines will be realised as an extension of the KONDE Weißbuch.
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Digital Edition White Paper - Update
The project aims at enlarging and updating the existing White Paper, which was a product of the HRSM project KONDE -Kompetenznetzwerk Digitale Edition.
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Digital Editions of medieval and early modern accounts
Digital Editions of medieval and early modern accounts and economic records
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International Conference "Digital History – Doing Cultural Heritage"
The conference is hosted by the University of Salzburg and focuses on digital approaches to cultural heritage. The aim is to promote practical and theoretical engagement with digital methods in historical research and to strengthen the dialogue between universities, museums, archives, and other memory institutions.
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Digital Humanities Data Sprint 2026
The two-day workshop "Digital Humanities Data Sprint" offers an innovative format for early-career researchers in the field of Digital Humanities (DH). The project aims to familiarize participants with the challenges and opportunities of working with digital data.
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Digital Interactive Mozart Edition
The Digital Interactive Mozart Edition (DIME) aims to make Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's entire musical oeuvre available to everyone in digital scholarly editions coded according to the standards of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI).
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Digital Memoryscape Austria | erinnerungslandschaft.at Persecution and Resistance during NS | Documentation and Education
'Digital Memoryscape of Austria (DERLA)' aims at documenting all signs of remembrance of the victims of National Socialism in Austria by means of a long-term stable digital map of memory as well as the development of a digital pedagogy of memory.
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Digital Scholarly Edition of Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic Sources 1500–1918
QhoD edits sources on Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy from the beginning of diplomatic relations between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries to the demise of both empires at the end of World War I.
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Digital Sustainability: Relaunch of the MHDBDB
The Middle-high German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB) in Salzburg is one of the most important tools for German Medieval Studies. Now, we develop a new front end with standardised formats and connections to the Semantic Web.
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Digital Tools for Historical Inventories
The aim of this project is to provide digital resources and tools as integrative modules for scientific research projects and knowledge transfer as part of DH specific teaching formats to be developed.
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Authors' Libraries as Knowledge Spaces: Digitization of the Catalog of the Arnim Library
The project makes the previously inaccessible material digitally available and prepares it for further research. It aims to transform the historical catalogue into a structured, machine-readable and reusable format, thereby creating new opportunities for research on authors’ libraries, historical library catalogues and knowledge spaces.
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Digitales Salzarchiv
Digitale Editionen zur Geschichte der Saline Hall
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DigitAS: The Digital, Affects and Space
DigitAS tests and compares the potential of triangulating mobile non-representational (digital and bio-sensing) and representational method(ologie)s (qualitative interviews) in researching people's affective-emotional experiences of space.
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Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP)
Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World
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Digitizing Early Farming Cultures
Digitizing Early Farming Cultures aims to create standardized and integrated research data of Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites and finds of Greece and Anatolia (c. 7000–3000 BC according to Greek terminology).
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Digitizing the Materiality of the Premodern Book
This project develops teaching materials at the intersection of book history and digital humanities through a winter school and the creation of a video course for self-study.
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Distant Spectators: Distant Reading for Periodicals of the Enlightenment (DiSpecs)
The objective of DiSpecs is the application of distant reading methods to the enlightened Spectators press of the 18th century to gain insight into the formation of trans-European ideas, literary techniques and cultural practices.
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DiTAH - Digital Transformation of the Austrian Humanities
A project to promote the transfer and development of digital competencies, methods and infrastructures in research and education in the humanities - funded by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
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DiXiT
The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT)
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DYLEN: Diachronic Dynamics of Lexical Networks
Combining linguistics, DH and computer science the project explores the diachronic dynamics of lexical networks on the basis of large-scale corpora.
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EAST—Epistemology and Argumentation in South Asia and Tibet
EAST is a systematic collection of bibliographical and biographical data on philosophical traditions in South Asia and Tibet.
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Ephesos 4D – The Virtual City
The large number of scientific reconstructions of Ephesian monuments and urban situations are being digitally modeled at the ÖAI using uniform standards and current geodetic data, as well as being recorded periodically in an overall city model.
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Esperanto Newspaper Excerpts
The Project CLARIAH Esperanto Newspaper Excerpts deals with digitized newspaper excerpts about Esperanto.
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Support for EURALEX 2026 “Lexicography in the age of AI”
The conference will take place from 29 September to 3 October 2026 under the theme "Lexicography in the Age of AI" in Vienna. Its aim is to explore the role of artificial intelligence in lexicography and showcase innovative approaches and technologies.
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European Constitutional Court Network (ECCN)
We digitalize the network of European Constitutional Court decisions by compiling information on (1) cross-citations and (2) semantic similarities of decision texts. We aim to explain the patterns we find by applying inferential network analysis.
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EventSearch API
EventSearch provides an API for events encoded in digital editions.
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exploreAT!
exploreAT! aims to reveal unique insights into the rich texture of the German language, especially in Austria, by providing state of the art tools for exploring the unique collection of the Bavarian Dialects in the region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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exploring austrias' culture through the language glass (exploreAT!)
Developement of an Open Innovation space in Science: exploration space
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Ferdinand Ebner: Collected Works. Online Edition.
EbnerOnline is a critically commented edition of collected works of Austrian Dialog philosopher Ferdinand Ebner.
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The Fuggerzeitungen. An early modern informative medium and its indexing
This collection, part of the imperial library in Vienna since the 17th century, includes more than 15,000 newspapers in German and Italian from the years 1568 to 1604.
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GAMS
The Humanities Asset Management System is used to store and administrate digital resources produced in a scientific context.
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Cast Collection of the Department of Classical Studies at the Old Residence Salzburg – Creation of a Digital Collection and Virtual Tour
The aim is to employ innovative digital methods to make the collection available as Open Educational Resources (OER) for research and teaching while also bringing the cultural significance of classical antiquity closer to a wider audience.
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Glaser Collection - Open Access
The collection of the Austrian explorer Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) is now completely accessible online: a variety of photographs, glass-negatives, diaries, manuscripts, hand-drawn maps, countless notes and working documents of other researchers.
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Glaser Virtual World – All About Eduard Glaser
GlaViWo aims to virtually unite Eduard Glaser's scattered collections, and also to offer publications by and about him. All this information will be displayed in virtual 3D rooms that will be dynamically created depending on the user's request.
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Governance und Verstetigung DH-Infra.at
The aim of this project is to support research processes that rely on the use of digitised sources, research software, and data science methods. The focus lies on four key infrastructure areas: Machine Learning, Open-Source Software, Repositories and Enhanced Sensing.
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Graz Repository of Ancient Fables (GRaF)
A repository, online portal and learner-oriented digital edition of Ancient Fables in Latin and Ancient Greek.
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Grotefend – digital
Grotefend - digital is an RDF representation of the saints' register and the diocesan and religious calendars from Grotefend's reference book, which was implemented using the ontology "Ontology for the representation of medieval calendar data".
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Hackathon for the Creation of Digital Educational Escape Rooms (Spanish and French L2)
The aim is to enhance the motivation and language skills of young learners aged 12 to 17 by immersing them in interactive digital escape rooms.
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Handke: in Zungen (in tongues)
This project investigates the role of foreign languages in the dramatic literature by the Austrian writer Peter Handke.
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Hearth Tax Digital
Assertive edition of the British Hearth Tax records (1662-1689)
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HGIS de las Indas - A Historical-Geographic Information System for Spanish America (1701-1808)
HGIS de las Indias is a dynamic (year-based) Web-GIS that reconstructs developments in territorial and ecclesiastical organization, settlements and communications, as well as other data in Bourbon Spanish America before the independence struggles.
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HINeinSEHEN – HERausHÖREN
In 2013, on the occasion of UNESCO's "World Day for Audiovisual Heritage" the Phonogrammarchiv set up an online exhibition to provide insights into its unique and manifold holdings.
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Hugo von Montfort - the poetic work: visual presentation
'Hugo von Montfort - the poetic work' is a hybrid edition that explores how a poetic work of the Middle Ages can be represented in its multimedia form.
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HUGO SCHUCHARDT ARCHIV
Das digitale Archiv vereint Gesamtwerk, Nachlass und Korrespondenzen des Romanisten und Sprachwissenschaftler Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927).
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HYBRIDIZATION FROM TWO SIDES: UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN AND RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN CODE MIXING IN SOUTHERN UKRAINE
The methodological approach of the joint FWF-DFG project consists in an innovative corpus linguistic description, combined with analytical methods of quantitative variationist sociolinguistics, correlated with sociodemographic data.
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Illuminated Charters as 'Gesamtkunstwerk'
"Illuminierte Urkunden als Gesamtkunstwerk" - Visual media in legal documents in the European middle ages
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The Imperial Diet of Regensburg 1576 - digital
The edition publishes central documents of the Imperial Diet of Regensburg of 1576. It uses an assertive edition approach with an interaction-centred data model, that focuses on the communicative complexity and dynamics of the event.
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In/Tangible European Heritage - Visual Analysis, Curation & Communication
The InTaVia project draws together European databases for cultural objects and cultural biographies to provide a more integrated and contextual access to these sources, to foster data curation, visual data analysis, and visual storytelling.
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Integrative Science Communication: 'Science Ink'.
In the project 'Sience Ink', contents of historical culinary arts and methods of digital humanities are processed with modern means. The project is designed for a young target audience between the ages of 16 and 30.
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The Itinerary of Paolo Santonino - A culinary history document
Digital adaptation of the Itinerary of Paolo Santonino, which describes his travels in 1485-87 through East Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola and the former Mark an der Sann.
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IUENNA – openIng the soUthErn jauNtal as a micro-regioN for future Archaeology
IUENNA will provide, for the first time in Austria for Classics, an outstanding model study and a sustainable long-term archive of an elaborated excavation at one of the most critical Late Antique sites of the Southeast Alpine region and its vicinity.
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Jelinek online. Elfriede Jelinek: work and reception
The goal of this project is the digital indexing and secure storage of bibliographical data of Jelinek's complete works including its artistic, scientific, and media impact. Complete project data will be made available as Open-Access-Files.
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Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall Correspondence: FAIRification and Expansion Workflow
The initiative involves several key steps, addressing both the technical implementation and the scholarly exploration of the correspondence. Innovative digital methods are employed to structure, link, and visualise the letters.
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Karl Wiesinger: Digital edition of the diaries (1961-1973)
The digital edition of the diaries (1961-1973) of the Linz writer Karl Wiesinger provides a unique testimony to its time, literature and local history.
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Kofler intermedial
The research project "Kofler intermedial" presents and analyzes on the intermedial dimension of Werner Kofler's work (1947–2011).
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Cross-Institutional Cultural Data Hackathon – CultureDataLab 2025
The project KulturDatenLab 2025, or "Hack the Pool 2025," demonstrates impressively how open data and interdisciplinary collaboration can sustainably enrich the field of Digital Humanities.
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'Ladder Project' (LeArners' Digital communication: a Database for pragmatic competence in Italian L2)
The 'Ladder Project' shows a model handling with digital data intended to raise language awareness in L2 Sociopragmatics and displays the benefits of digital humanities applied in the language didactics.
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LadderWeb: A pragmatically annotated web-based corpus query interface for requests and cancellations in Italian L1 and L2
The project aims to provide pragmatically annotated data in under-researched languages (Italian L1/L2, German and Colombian Spanish). Benefits include the professionalisation of pre-service teachers and the self-learning of non-native speakers.
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Leopold Mozart Violinschule
Digital critical edition of Leopold Mozart's "Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule" (1756).
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A Linked and Open Bibliography for Aegean Glyptic in the Bronze Age
The aim is an interactive online bibliography about Bronze Age Aegean Glyptic. Reference information is held in Wikidata, allowing anybody to correct, extend or add entries. For user friendly re-use, data is displayed with a bespoke web application.
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LINKED CAT+ Explore half a century of knowledge production at the Academy
The Proceedings of the Austrian Academy of Sciences from the first 50 years can be virtually discovered and explored with a new web application.
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Machine Learning Suite for IIIF Resources
Examples for applications of machine learning for IIIF resources
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Mapping Difficult Heritage: Digital Documentation of Colonial Traces in Austrian Urbanscapes
The project focuses on the digital documentation and analysis of colonial traces in Austrian urban spaces. It aims to make the material presence of colonial legacies in public spaces visible while archiving them as long-term research data.
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Mapping historical networks (APIS)
Mapping historical networks: Building the new Austrian Prosopographical, Biographical Information System (APIS)
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The Marco Polo of Christopher Columbus: Francesco Pipino's Latin Version of 'Il Milione'
Research project on the Latin version of Marco Polo's 'Travels'
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Maximilian goes digital: From 'remembrance' to data storage
Digitization project of Maximilian I's commissioned art
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Mecmua
Historical texts of the early modern Ottoman period constitute an absolute rarity in the digital world.
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MEDCON
Mapping MEDieval CONflicts: A digital approach towards political dynamics in the pre-modern period
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MedCorpInn
Retrospective Intersectional Corpuslinguistic Analysis of Radiology Reports of Innsbruck Medical University
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Media Relations: How and Why Older Women Care for Information and Communication Technologies
Exploring Intersections of Media Generations and Gender in the Digital Era
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The Mediality of Diplomatic Communication Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople in the Mid-17th Century
This FWF-funded project examines the communication of Habsburg diplomats in Constantinople with the Imperial Court in Vienna. A digital edition of selected diplomatic sources (1649/50) will be provided.
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Medieval Explorations in Neuro-Science (1050–1450): Ontology-Based Keyword Spotting in Manuscript Scans
Research project on medieval brain anatomical texts
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Medieval Laboratory
A science communication approach towards the study of the medieval manuscript University of Graz Library, Ms 1609.
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Medieval manuscript fragments from the Benedictine Abbey of Mondsee
Digitization, catalogization and analysis of medieval manuscript fragments (8-15th century) from the Benedictine monastery of Mondsee
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MHDBDB goes AI. Data preparation for the OER-LLM ParzivAI
ParzivAI translates Middle High German into modern German – an OER AI project by the MHDBDB for research, education, and Digital Humanities.
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Monasterium.net
Monasterium.net is a portal and collaborative virtual research environment for medieval and early modern charters.
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Mozart Letters and Documents – Online Edition
This digital edition offers the complete correspondence of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart and his family as well as other letters and documents related to Mozart and the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg.
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Mozart Libretti – Online Edition
Mozart Libretti – Online Edition offers a digital edition of the textual sources of the vocal works by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart according to academic criteria.
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Multi-Modal Manuscript Representations (M3R)
The interdisciplinary analysis of historical manuscripts generates a variety of measuring and descriptive data. A repository relates these data and makes them available for research, education, and the public.
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Museum digital initiatives during the Coronavirus Pandemic
A map aiming to collect and visualise museum digital projects during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Museum of Knowledge Sciences
A open innovation approach to invent a paticipatory museum of knowledge cultures
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MUSIL ONLINE
MUSIL ONLINE is the online part of a hybrid digital edition of Robert Musil's (1880-1942) Collected Works.
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Musil Online - TEI Consolidation
Musil Online is a joint editorial project of the University of Klagenfurt and the Austrian National Library. Its aim is to make the works of Robert Musil accessible in a modern, hybrid form, combining the printed edition with a digital publication.
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Sustainable infrastructure for scholarly digital editions at the Austrian National Library
A GAMS-based infrastructure for digital editions based on collections of the Austrian National Library.
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Narrative Didactics - Digital and other Didactive Narratives
Narrative Didactics is a project at the Center for Inter-American Studies which studies and disseminates innovative approaches and methods that use stories and narrative practices to facilitate learning.
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NERDPool: Data Pool for Named Entity Recognition
In the project NERDPool data from historical German text corpora and editing projects are used to develop gold standard training material for Named Entity Recognition models.
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NoMansLand: Nomads' Manuscripts Landscape
The project investigates Transculturation between nomadic and sedentary societies in medieval Iran and Central Asia by looking at textual and paratextual evidence in surviving Persian and Arabic manuscripts of the period.
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Nuns and Monks - Prosopographical Interfaces (NAMPI)
NAMPI gathers various sources available about early modern European Catholic nuns and monks. This allows an accurate portrayal of the lives of early modern nuns and monks.
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OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities
The workshop focused on OCR and HTR workflows for languages and scripts that are often insufficiently supported by existing digital infrastructures.
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ODEEG (Online database for research on the development of vessel shapes and capacities)
The ODEEG project is connected to the CVA (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum). Its aims were to digitally document ancient vases in 3D and the long-term digital preservation and open dissemination of the documentation and results.
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Ödön von Horvath: Historical-critical edition – Digital edition
The project provides insights into the historical-critical Edition of Horváth's works and the comprehensive digital scholarly edition of "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods)"
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ÖNB Labs Symposium 2024
Four diverse thematic panels explored technological innovations and artificial intelligence, infrastructural perspectives, ethical considerations, and practice-oriented projects working with historical newspapers as datasets.
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ÖNB Labs Video-Tutorials
Working with digital collections, programming interfaces and data-driven methods, requires prior technical knowledge. The project addresses this need by developing accessible and engaging video tutorials that facilitate entry into the ÖNB Labs services and encourage users to work independently with the data provided.
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OIM (Osservatorio degli italianismi nel mondo / Observatory on Italian Loanwords worldwide)
Database of Italian loanwords in a continuously growing number of contact languages worldwide
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ONAMA – Ontology of Narratives of the Middle Ages
ONAMA is concerned with the development of a semantic web ontology as a digital tool for the analysis of narratological patterns in medieval literature and images.
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ONB Labs
Research, experiment and creative work with digital holdings and metadata from the Austrian National Library
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OpenAtlas
OpenAtlas is an open source, web based database system for complex archaeological, historical and geospatial data.
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Ottoman Nature in Travelogues, 1501–1850: A Digital Analysis (ONiT)
This interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project analyzes Ottoman "nature" (flora, fauna, landscapes) in travelogues on the Ottoman empire, printed between 1501 and 1850.
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Peter Handke Notebooks. Digital Edition
In this cooperation project between the Literary Archive of the Austrian National Library and the German Literature Archive Marbach, 22 notebooks of the Austrian literature Nobel laureate Peter Handke are published in a digital edition.
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Picturing Migrants' Lives
The research project Picturing Migrants' Lives examines photographic representations of Yugoslav labour migrants in Austria of the 1970s and 80s based on the photographic legacy of the Yugoslav photographer Jovan Ritopečki.
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Pilot Corpus for Tokenization and Lemmatization of Pannonian Rusyn – A First Step Toward Open Language Resources
The project develops the first linguistically annotated pilot corpus for Pannonian Rusyn. The corpus provides a foundation for further work in natural language processing, corpus linguistics and the Digital Humanities. At the same time, the project aims to connect the language more closely with open European research infrastructures.
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Power and Diplomacy. The Illuminated Charter in France 1160–ca. 1420
Data base for the research of medieval French charters featuring decoration.
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Privater Buchbesitz in Tirol zwischen 1750 und 1850
Eine Pilotstudie zu den Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der systematischen Auswertung von Inventaren am Beispiel der Landgerichte Stubai und Steinach.
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Progressive Visual Decision Making in Digital Humanities (PROVIDEDH)
PROVIDEDH analyzes how progressive visualization can contribute to decision-making in the humanities against the background of open innovation.
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Propaganda in Context: YouTube-Clips about Bandera, Lukashenka and Naval'nyi
A Deep Learning Approach for visual propaganda discourses from Eastern Europe
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Prototype of a Historical-Critical Online Edition based on the Estate Materials of Josef Maria Baernreither
The project aims to investigate the feasibility of an RDF-based graph model of a Historical-Critical Edition.
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A puzzle in 4D
Project on integration of heterogeneous and incomplete digital and non-digital records of archaeological long-term excavations to prepare them for spatio-temporal analysis, long-term archiving based on standards and open-access online publication.
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READ - Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents
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REALonline Image database
The image database REALonline makes the visual cultural heritage of Austria and the Central European regions available via the Internet with all its details. It forms the basis for research into historical images using digital methods.
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Reassembling the Republic of Letters
'Reassembling the Republic of Letters' is an EU-funded COST action which will bring together scholars, librarians, IT and Digital Humanities experts.
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Recommendations for the Academic Citation of Digital Resources
The aim of the project is to develop practical and consensus-based citation standards that can be applied both in university teaching and in research.
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Renaissance Architecture
Renaissance Architecture - A Digital Anthology of Heinrich von Geymüller
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Representation of risks and responsibility in the automation debate (MARA)
The Project explores media reporting on automation (robotics, algorithms, artificial intelligence). Using a combination of manual and automated content analysis it investigates the representation of risks and responsibility in the automation debate
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Distinguished Lecture Series Music and Digital Humanities
The lecture series comprises twelve public lectures on current topics in digital music research.
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A Roma Journey
With a selection of its extensive holdings featuring European Romani culture the Phonogrammarchiv contributed to the web exhibition "A Roma Journey".
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SALTA: Open-source tool and database for the segmentation of multimodal performances
The SALTA project develops an open-source tool and an associated data infrastructure for the quantitative segmentation of multimodal performances.
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SARIT—Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts
SARIT lets you read and search Indic texts.
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SemanticKraus – Connecting Kraus-Scholarship to the Semantic Web
A resource plattform and reference resource on Karl Kraus.
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Sentiment analysis for 18th century multilingual corpora
A freely available, adaptable tool chain for creating dictionaries and applying sentiment analysis methods to historical literary texts.
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Sentiment-annotated corpus of Austrian historical newspapers
The project is developing the first sentiment-annotated corpus of historical Austrian newspapers spanning the years 1800 to 1938. The aim is to significantly advance sentiment analysis within Digital Humanities and historical language processing.
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Sharing the CROWN - Establishing a Workflow from Collection Data to Linked Research Data
The CROWN project, initiated by the KHM in Vienna, focuses on a comprehensive analysis of the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, involving interdisciplinary research on its various components using The Museum System (TMS).
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Shifting patterns of 'you' and 'thou': Modelling address in the English sonnet
The project tracks patterns of usage for 'you' and 'thou' in the English sonnet until 1910 with the aim of describing semantic differences in its usage.
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SMC Browser
SMC-Browser is a web application developed in the context of CLARIN, which allows to explore the data-space of the Component Metadata Infrastructure.
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Soundscapes from Vienna
In the project "European Acoustic Heritage" audio recordings of Vienna's urban soundscape were made accessible by the Phonogrammarchiv.
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Special Research Programme German in Austria: Variation, Contact, Perception
The SFB (FWF F 60) German in Austria deals with the variety and change of the German language in Austria.
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The Spectators in the international context
The digital edition of the Spectator periodicals of the 18th century provides insights into the European discourse system of the Enlightenment.
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St Patrick's epistles - Transcriptions of the seven medieval manuscript witnesses
In this digital edition of the two epistles of St Patrick of Ireland transcriptions of the seven medieval manuscript witnesses are published.
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Stefan George Digital
The digital scholarly edition Stefan George Digital (StGD)
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Stefan Zweig digital
Stefan Zweig digital (SZD) is an information and research portal on the life and work of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
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Summer School: Machine Learning for Digital Scholarly Editions
Summer School on Machine Learning in Digital Humanities: methods, practice & networking for students and researchers in digital editions.
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Publication of the "Tegernsee Economic Booklet" as a hyperdiplomatic transcription
The Tegernseer Wirtschaftsbüchlein, a medieval manuscript, provides valuable insights into the culinary and everyday practices of a monastery. This project advances the scientific processing and digital publication of the manuscript to make it accessible to the research community and ensure its sustainable preservation.
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TEI Converter for E-Book and Print Editions
A software for establishing print or e-book editions out of TEI files.
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Telling Sounds
The research project Telling Sounds deals with the importance of audio-visual documents for new approaches in the field of musicology.
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Text Mining Medieval Mining Texts (TMMMT)
The project "Text Mining Medieval Mining Texts" (T.M.M.M.T.) digitizes and processes two medieval mining sources (15th and 16th century) of the regions Schwaz and Rattenberg-Brixlegg in Tyrol, Austria. One of the two sources is unedited while the oth
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THANADOS - The anthropological and archaeological database of sepultures
Within the project all published Early Medieval burial sites in Austria will be digitised and provided as an Open Data repository. A web-application will allow for interactive exploration, visualisation and export of the data.
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Topotheque
Online Archive for Citizen Scientists in local units
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Tote Tiroler
Die Gefallenen des Tiroler Aufstandes von 1809, erfasst in einer online-Datenbank
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Transkribus
Transkribus is a comprehensive Transcription and Recognition Platform (TRP) consisting of an expert tool (Transkribus), a web interface and dedicated cloud-based services.
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travel!digital
Focusing on a rarely investigated genre, the project conceptualizes a semantic data model for investigating cultural discourses in historical travel guides.
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Travelogues: Perceptions of the Other 1500–1876 – A Computerized Analysis
This interdisciplinary and international project focuses on German language travelogues in the collections of the Austrian National Library, covering the period from 1500 to 1876.
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Twitter Archive of Ianina Ilitcheva
The project is dedicated to digitally preserving and making publicly accessible the tweets of Austrian author Ianina Ilitcheva, who passed away in 2016.
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UNFOLDING THE WOLDAN COLLECTION - a prototype for dissemination and visualization of cultural heritage in a spatial-temporal way
The overall objective is the representation of a cultural heritage collection as geodata in a historical-GIS. This enables a spatial-temporal access on a very detailed and specific level and makes previously hidden content searchable.
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UniTV Salzburg
UniTV Salzburg is the scientific video-on-demand project of the University of Salzburg existing since 2004. The main task of UniTV Salzburg is the publication of outstanding scientific events at the University of Salzburg.
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Investigation of IIIF in Digital Editions
The project addresses the gap between existing technical implementations and the specific requirements of edition projects, thereby contributing to the optimization of workflows in the Digital Humanities.
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"Urfehdebücher" of the city of Basel – Digital edition
The digital edition of the Basler Urfehdebuch X from 1563 to 1569 represents a legal-historic source.
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Users First. Optimierung von User Interface, User Experience und Crowdsourcing an der Mittelhochdeutschen Begriffsdatenbank
The project builds on the relaunch of the MHDBD with the goal of further enhancing the accessibility, user-friendliness, and reach of the MHDBDB, in line with the FAIR principles and the Open Science strategy of the Digital Humanities.
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UWK Summer School 2025
The interdisciplinary Summer School “AI will sort it… out? Practices of collecting, archiving and curating in the age of digital transformation” addressed collecting, archiving and curating in the context of digital transformation.
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VASE
The Visual Archive South Eastern Europe of the Institute for Southeast European History collects and analyses photographs and postcards from the Balkans (1860-1950).
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Automated Recording and Semantic Analysis of Association Dissolutions in the "Official Gazette" 1938–1940
The project focuses on developing and testing a multi-stage processing chain for the 1938 to 1940 volumes of the “Amtliches Nachrichtenblatt”. It combines Optical Character Recognition (OCR), AI-supported information extraction, quality control and structured data modelling.
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vicav
The Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties is a collection of materials documenting a wide range of spoken varieties of Arabic.
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VIENNA TIME MACHINE
Corresponding digital data treasures and knowledge resources (Wienerisches DIGITARIUM & Wien Geschichte WIKI)
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Visually Reading the Pandemic: COVID19
'Visually Reading the Pandemic' is a transnational project of exploration space with the Ars Electronica Research Institute 'knowledge for humanity', metalab (at) Harvard (US), MIT (US) and the company NAMSOR (FR) exploring COVID19 related datasets.
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VOICE CLARIAH
The project integrates the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English into CLARIAH-AT and builds a new, enhanced web interface for VOICE Online to provide continued open access to this English as a lingua franca (ELF) corpus.
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Learning from Many Images
How can digital annotations of historical artworks open up new perspectives in museums and education? With data-driven approaches, innovative visualization software, and openly accessible results, the project builds a strong bridge between research, cultural heritage, and education.
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Wares, Types and Fabrics. The Upper Egypt Contribution to the Levantine Ceramics Project
Open Access Publication of the complete research data of an archaeological project on pottery in Upper Egypt through the »Levantine Ceramics Project« and long term archiving in ARCHE
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WB meets MHDBDB: The Wenzelsbibel as a Pilot Model for Interoperable Editions
The project opens new possibilities for the semantic modelling of Middle High German terms and their interdisciplinary linkage with other research databases.
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Wiener Video Rekorder
A collection of private everyday videorecordings from the 1980s and the 1990s.
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The Wien[n]erisches Diarium: A digital data trove for the humanities
Digital edition of a representative reference corpus of the Wien[n]erisches Diarium / Wiener Zeitung in the 18th century.
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Woldan goes digital
The collection of the Viennese private scholar Erich Woldan (1901-1989) was during his lifetime probably the most comprehensive private compilation of old geographic books and maps in Austria.
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Workshop: Re-late – Re-Use – Re-Work. Potentials for Variant and Intertextuality Analyses in the Digital Humanities
The workshop showcased methodological contributions and concrete application examples presented different approaches to the computational analysis of textual variants, adaptations and intertextual relations.
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Zukunft Kulturpool Visuell
The project explores and develops innovative visualization methods to improve the findability, visibility, and usability of these collections – both for the academic community and for the interested public.