… has almost 30 years of experience in the digitization and processing of dialect data. Before joining ACDH-CH, she worked as an author on the print edition of the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (Wörterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich, WBÖ) and on associated digital projects. With her academic background in biology, she is particularly interested in dialectal animal and plant names. At ACDH-CH, she has been able to expand her skills through her work with other foreign language and dialect dictionaries and projects, focusing on text annotation, open innovation and citizen science. She is co-editor of two conference proceedings.
Since 2020, Barbara has been part of the Central Office team at ACDH-CH, where she is responsible for various administrative tasks. In addition, she is also the institute's Data Protection Officer.
Publications
- Piringer, Barbara, Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Yalemisew Abgaz, and Katalin Lejtovicz. 2017. Exploring and exploiting biographical and prosopographical information as common access layer for heterogeneous data facilitating inclusive, gender-symmetric research. Eveline Wandl-Vogt and Lejtovicz, Katalin. Biographical Data in a Digital World 2017. A conference in the framework of the project APIS, 6–7 November 2017. Abstracts. Wien. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1041978.
- Piringer, Barbara. 2017. Mundart. Kulinarische Wortschätze: Erdapfel, Kartoffel. Servus Gute Küche.
- Wandl-Vogt, Eveline, Davor Ostojic, Barbara Piringer, Heimo Rainer, and Ksenia Zsaytseva. 2017. Designing Collaborative Ecosystems and community organization: Introducing the multidisciplinary portal on "Biodiversity and Linguistic Diversity: A Collaborative Knowledge Discovery Environment". Rhian Lewis, Raynor, Cecily, Forest, Dominic, Sinatra, Michael, and Sinclair, Stéfan. dh2017. Digital Humanities 2017. Conference Abstracts. McGill University & Université de Montréal. Montréal, Canada. August 8 - 11, 2017.
- Schrödl, Christina, and Barbara Piringer. 2017. Language Contact in the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (Wörterbuch Der Bairischen Mundarten in Österreich). Vügar Sultanzade, Pehlivan, Ahmet, and van Nahl, Astrid. VIII. Congress of International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics (14-18 September 2015). Selected Papers. Gazimağusa: Eastern Mediterranean University Press.
- Piringer, Barbara. 2017. Mundart. Kulinarische Wortschätze: Bärlauch. Servus Gute Küche.
- Wandl-Vogt, Eveline, Alisa Goikhman, Roberto Theron, Alexander O'Connor, Barbara Piringer, and Heimo Rainer. 2016. exploreAT! Kollaborative, multidisziplinäre Lexikographie am Beispiel der Datenbank der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich (DBÖ). 13. Bayerisch-österreichische Dialektologentagung vom 28.9. bis 1.10.2016 in Erlangen. Dialektale Daten: Erhebung - Aufbereitung - Auswertung. Abstracts der Sektionsvorträge. Erlangen.