Web Development

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A joint pilot project of the RU Linguistics and the SFB “German in Austria” focuses lexical variation, providing innovative analyses based on both present day and historic data.

bITEM aims to present well-known museum objects in a state-of-the-art web application that is freely accessible online.

ChIA aims to engage and test new technologies against the background of a selected dataset of food images for the benefit of accessing and analyzing cultural data.

Combining linguistics, DH, and computer science the project explores the diachronic dynamics of lexical networks on the basis of large-scale corpora.

In this project a tool will be created in order to detect the change of emotional polarization of politicians in Austrian newspapers.

EUROTORT is the first comprehensive database of European cases on tort law. This web-based research tool shall allow both researchers as well as practitioners to access the vast wealth of jurisprudence on tort law throughout Europe in a single language (English) and with a standardized index system.

The FemCareVienna project aims to elucidate the history of medical care for women through an interdisciplinary study of the Hospital of the Elisabethians in Vienna.

The project consolidates the archive holdings, documents and describes the primary sources and their academic and public reception in a digital environment to serve as solid basis for research of Frischmuth’s oeuvre.

The main objective of GrocerIST is to reveal and analyse the food consumption patterns of inhabitants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Istanbul through the use of grocers’ (bakkal) inheritance inventories.

Digital edition and handbook: A diachronic-linguistic analysis of documented Albanian place names.

The HIT project challenges traditional views on the cultural history of Carolingian and post-Carolingian historiography through a study of Salzburg and Freising, exploring the evolution of historical writing from the 9th to 12th centuries.

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This project will provide a digital scholarly edition of the legal papers of the Austrian satirist Karl Kraus (1874-1936).

MAMEMS examines the monastic communities of Mount Athos as independent actors in medieval Eastern Mediterranean society.

Digital Edition: MMP wants to build an innovative technical solution for analyzing and visualizing collected data.

Book production and practices of annotation in the east Frankish realm (ca. 830–900).

The Expositiones in Psalmos appeared in the fourth or fifth century and circulated under the name of Athanasius of Alexandria. It is a foundational source for the development of patristic exegesis in the tradition of Origenes and Eusebius of Caesarea.

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This project edits Arthur Schnitzler’s (1862–1931) correspondences with more than 40 writers and puts them on a website.

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Digital critical edition of 45 complete correspondences and more than 3,600 correspondence pieces exchanged between Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) and fellow writers.

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The focus of the project is on the Arabic minority variety spoken in the Harran-Urfa region of Southeastern Turkey.

SiCProD is creating a prosopographical database of Archduke Sigmund of Tyrol’s court, offering detailed biographical data and network insights to historians.

The Sunday as a day of rest and a day for worship is generally perceived as one central identity marker of a society shaped by Christianity until today. This project investigates the significance of the Sunday between about 300 and 700 AD by analyzing source texts in Greek and Latin and establishing SOLA, a text database where relevant passages can be collected, annotated, commented, queried and visualized.

It is the goal of this project to encode all texts written in Tarim Brahmi available following the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative. For the first time, this will allow the comprehensive paleographic investigation of this writing system.

The project “Edition of Paul Tillich’s Correspondence (1887–1933)” is creating the first hybrid edition of the letters of the important theologian.

The project “Edition of Tillich’s Lectures on Religion and Culture” investigates and publishes the sources on Tillich’s seminal lecture on Religion and Culture.

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This online Corpus of Arabic varieties is a virtual research platform for Arabic dialectology and a testing ground for new text technological methods.

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The linguistic and socio-historical realities behind the millennia-old dichotomous concept of nomadic and sedentary people in the Middle East and North Africa

YouBeOn is an innovatice, participative research project investigating religion on social media. Results will be published in a web-app.