Matej Ďurčo is head of the ACDH-CH’s group Digital Humanities Research&Infrastructure.
Since 2002, while still studying computer science at the Technical University Vienna, he has been working at the Austrian Academy of Sciences engaging primarily in corpus linguistics and development of text technological applications. Since 2009, he has also participated actively in the Austrian research infrastructures core group and supported the build-up of the pan-European research infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, both on the Austrian and European levels. Since 2014, he was one of the key figures in founding and building up the institute.
From the very beginning, he took care of the institute’s infrastructure agenda, coordinating the development of applications and the provision of services for the numerous projects of the institute and its cooperation partners. Besides building technical infrastructures, his main concern has been the social aspect, sharing knowledge and acting as interpreter between humanities research and the technical world ensuring mutual understanding in order to find optimal solutions for the specific needs of the researchers.
As of November 2022, he has also been acting as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the European research infrastructure consortium DARIAH.
Publications
- Aspöck, E., G. Hiebel, K. Kopetzky, and M. Ďurčo. 2020. A Puzzle in 4D: Archiving Digital and Analogue Resources of the Austrian Excavations at Tell el-Daba, Egypt. In Old Excavation Data. What Can We Do? Proceedings of the Workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016., eds. E. Aspöck, Štuhec, S., Kopetzky, K., and Kucera, M., tran. Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, 79-100. Oriental And European Archaeology Series 16. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. doi:10.1553/0x003bca0e.
- Ivana Ilijasic Versic,, Vanja Komljenovic, Martina Drascic, Irena Vipavc Brvar, Elizabeth Lea Bishop, Daan Broeder, Maria Eskevich, et al. 2020. SSHOC Data Management Plan - DMP. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3931490.
- Ďurčo, Matej, Klaus Illmayer, and Laure Barbot. 2019. Inventory of existing learning materials. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3596003.
- Barbot, Laure, Yoan Moranville, Frank Fischer, Clara Petitfils, Matej Ďurčo, Klaus Illmayer, Tomasz Parkoła, Philipp Wieder, and Sotiris Karampatakis. 2019. System Specification - SSH Open Marketplace. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3547649.
- Kálmán, Tibor, Matej Ďurčo, Frank Fischer, Nicolas Larrousse, Claudio Leone, Karlheinz Mörth, and Carsten Thiel. 2019. A landscape of data – working with digital resources within and beyond DARIAH. International Journal of Digital Humanities 1: 113-131. doi:10.1007/s42803-019-00008-6.
- Trognitz, Martina, and Matej Ďurčo. 2018. One Schema to Rule them All. The Inner Workings of the Digital Archive ARCHE.. Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare 71: 217-231. doi:10.31263/voebm.v71i1.1979.