Projects

Astronomical Diaries Digital (ADD) is a cooperation project with the University of Vienna analyzing Late Babylonian observational records, offering a digital edition and new insights using digital tools.

The project aims at transcribing and evaluating the handwirting and lexis contained on the over 100-year-old WBÖ paper slips with the intention of engaging citizens with their linguistic and regional heritage.

The Anton Bruckner Lexikon Online (ABLO) covers people, places, terms and all of Bruckner’s works in more than 1,000 entries.

The project deals with two possible sources of Guido Adler’s systematic orientation in musicology that date back to his educational background: high school education in “philosophical propaedeutics” on the one side, legal studies on the other.

ARIADNEplus, a continuation of the ARIADNE project, extends the ARIADNE catalogue of archaeological datasets and develops a Linked Data approach to data discovery.

This project is dedicated to the so-called „Armesünderblätter“, which were printed and distributed on the occasion of executions in Vienna in the 18th century.

ATRIUM brings together leading European research infrastructures DARIAH, ARIADNE, CLARIN and OPERAS to provide humanities scholars improved access to a rich portfolio of services, and other resources, and to enhance interoperability between these.

A digital edition of W. H. Auden's letters to Stella Musulin – The project makes openly available previously inaccessible documents by British-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973) in the estate of Welsh-Austrian writer Stella Musulin in a scholarly digital edition.

Auden in Austria Digital (AAD) makes openly accessible all archival papers by, or related to, British-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973) in Austria through a scholarly digital edition, which will be a unique comprehensive resource for international Auden scholarship.

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.

This project studies the cultural authority of writers at the intersections of literature, politics, the media, and celebrity culture.

This project conducts a survey on “Aspects of (multi-)lingualism in Austria” that is representative for Austria’s electorate population.

APIS is a project dedicated to creating a digital environment for new modes of access to prosopographical/biographical data.

The project analyzes how visiting Constantinople affected the reception of Byzantium by humanists from the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century.

Since 2023, the OeAW holds documents on the life, work, and impact of Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989). An online research platform will make these materials accessible and promote the examination of Bernhard's work in the context of literary, cultural and media history.

Thomas Bernhard’s most spectacular and controversial drama, its creation and public reception, are documented in a historical-critical digital edition.

A historical-critical digital edition of Thomas Bernhard’s autofictional narration „Wittgensteins Neffe“, originally published in 1982.

The project is aimed at cataloguing, organizing and inventorying the literary remains of Thomas Bernhard as digitized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Gmunden and partly in Vienna between 2014 and 2018.

Building on previous research projects into opera and sacred music at the Bonn Electoral Court as a center of musical excellence, this book project proposes both to reconstruct Beethoven’s musical and intellectual milieu and to re-evaluate his early creativity.

Bestiarium Mesopotamicum is an FWF-funded project at the University of Vienna examining Ancient Mesopotamian animal omens from cuneiform tablets, aiming to update and interpret these texts as culturally constructed reflections of human society using digital tools.

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

The project is dedicated to the digitization and archiving of the collection of the Austrian ethnologist Friedrich Julius Bieber (1873–1924).

The Vienna research group of the Johannes Brahms Complete Edition, established in 2011, is a long-term project that aims at compiling a scholarly-critical edition of the complete musical works of Johannes Brahms in cooperation with the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

The research project is devoted to the systematic analysis of Brahms reception in the Viennese press between 1862 and 1902.

Description of the creation of the Austrian Federal Constitution based on the sources and texts of 1919 and 1920

For many centuries, the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg, along with its suffragan dioceses of Brixen, Freising, Regensburg and Salzburg, played a key role in the cultural history of Austria and Bavaria. It is thus all the more important that the many surviving liturgical musical sources that constitute an important part of this cultural heritage are made digitally accessible and subjected to scholarly analysis.

The Benedictine Abbey of Göttweig has a rich collection of music manuscripts, printed music and libretti, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries; a part of the famous collection of Aloys Fuchs (1799–1859) was also inserted.

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.

Centerpiece of the research project is MS 2129 of the music collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna – a lavishly decorated choirbook produced by Richard of Genoa, singer and scribe of the Wittelsbach music chapel in Munich, for the 1568 wedding of William V of Bavaria and Renata of Lorraine.

CLARIAH-AT is the consortium of Austrian universities and research institutions that coordinates and drives Austrian activities in the European ESFRI research infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH.

The consortium maintains a Europe-wide network of data repositories, service centres and centres of expertise, focussing on digital language resources.

CLS INFRA is a H2020 project aiming to build an infrastructure with high-quality data, tools, and knowledge for the study of literature in the digital age.

The project analyzes how a ‘universal’ Late Antique Church was constructed despite the context of political fragmentation.

In this cooperation project, a unique corpus of historical Austrian dialect recordings from the 20th century is being researched and processed.

Account books on toll revenues such as the well-known Sundzoll registers are first-rate sources for researching trade in the early modern period. For the Austrian provinces, the Aschach toll records preserved in the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives (Linz) occupy an outstanding position. This collection of 194 volumes (1627–1775) could not be systematically analyzed until now due to its immense size and lack of indexes.

As an active player in the pan-European digital research infrastructure DARIAH, the ACDH-CH acts as a national hub in supporting the aims of the consortium.

The research platform DEMOS offers a collection of source materials related to Austrian music history, strongly (yet not exclusively) dedicated to biographical data, and with a particular focus on musical life in Vienna in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century.

A project that records new videos for the DH Course Registry.

DHInfra.at is building an infrastructure for digitally supported research in the Austrian humanities.

Combining text technology and user engagement, this project creates a digital environment for the exploration of the historical newspaper Wien[n]erisches Diarium.

The project is the continuation of the DIGITARIUM I project and serves to stabilize and expand the existing web application.

Digital Transformation of Austrian Humanities (DiTAH) is a collaborative project of nine Austrian research institutions that seeks to establish and promote the use of digital tools and methods in the humanities research and education in Austria.

This project considers discourses on music at the pluricultural Slavonian and the Banat military frontiers between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire.

The DLYS (Dictionary of Loanwords in Yalkut Shimoni) project deals with the investigation of the - predominantly Greek – loanwords in the Yalkut Shimoni, a medieval Rabbinic narrative (“aggadic”) compilation on the Books of the Hebrew Bible and aims at the creation of a digital online dictionary.

The project is dedicated to documenting and analyzing the highly endangered Zargari Romani variety spoken in North-West Iran.

Taking the correspondence of Austrian historians Bernhard and Hieronymus Pez as a point of departure, dQIÖG develops a reusable hybrid publication model of TEI-encoded volumes of the dQIÖG series.

Digitization of the language surveys for the “Deutscher Wortatlas” using AI

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.

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

As a cooperation partner in ELEXIS, the ACDH-CH helps to foster cooperation and knowledge exchange between different research communities in lexicography.

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.

Everyone in Austria and far beyond is probably familiar with Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th century and exerted great influence on European politics. But have you ever heard of her grandmother Eleonora Magdalena? A digital edition of more than 1000 recently (re)discovered letters by Eleonara Magdalena aims to bring this great monarch closer to the public once again.

The composer’s lesser-known film music is particularly interesting against the background of the commercial cinema of the Austrian economic ‘miracle years’, as patterns of avant-garde designs can be identified despite profit-orientated genre cinema. As a sub-project, an annotated catalogue raisonné will initially be compiled.

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 provides a critical edition of the Festa da camera by Carlo Arrigoni (1697–1744). The edition will be published in three languages (German, English, Italian).

Digitization, enrichment and automated transcription of 53 medieval and early modern chant manuscripts and modern rare chant prints of the Central Library of the Franciscans in Graz, as well as management and provision of image data via an IIIF interface and long-term archiving in ARCHE.

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 new edition of Johann Joseph Fux’s works is a major contribution to Baroque music research.

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.

This project explores the dynamics of and relations between Hanslick’s aesthetic, critical, and scholarly writings during his tenure at “Neue Freie Presse”.

The project aims at critically analyzing the eclectic intellectual background of Eduard Hanslick’s aesthetic treatise “On the Musically Beautiful”, the genetic factors of which are made transparent from an overarching perspective.

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

This project develops a Geographical Information System, workbench and repository to collect, create, and share historical temporalized spatial data.

Starting with the first musicological habilitation at the University of Vienna (Eduard Hanslick, 1856), the history of musicology as a university discipline is subject of this project.

The linguistic research on the German language in Austria is being reflected and contextualized in this project from the perspectives of history of science and philosophy of science (as well as sociology of knowledge).

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.

This EU-funded initiative unites academic institutions and creative industry partners from three countries.

The InTaVia project overcomes barriers to European cultural heritage data by integrating tangible and intangible assets, fostering enriched storytelling and research.

Based on the former iconographic archive at the Institute of Musicology of the University of Innsbruck (acquired in 2018), the project contributes to a history of music in images specifically for the Austrian-Central European region. Furthermore it will support the online version of the music encyclopedia oeml as regards artwork supply and workflow.

The aim of this project is the creation of a digital edition of the magazine „Die Insel – Monatsschrift mit Buchschmuck und Illustrationen“ (“Die Insel. Monthly Review with book decoration and illustrations”), published between 1899 and 1902.

The project “Index and Inventory of Text Corpora” is aimed at making the texts of the “AAC – Austrian Academy Corpus” searchable again.

The project makes the content of the publication “Elfriede Jelinek: Work and Reception” as well as newly researched data accessible.

A digital edition of Kraus’ extensive analysis of the beginning of National Socialist rule in Germany, 1933.

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

The network project KONDE is dedicated to developing a best practice research infrastructure for the creation and publication of digital editions.

Lapis is an online portal currently being developed to collect different language data from & about Austria to make them interoperable with each other.

LexAT visualizes lexical variation of the spoken language in Austria on the whole dialect-standard-axis multi-perspectively and interactively through an innovative mapping tool.

The LinkedCat+ project digitizes and indexes 1847–1918 ÖAW reports, offering advanced search and visualization tools to explore historical scholarly content.

The Lexical Information System Austria (LIÖ) is a platform on which interested users can find out more about vocabulary and lexical variation in Austria.

The project deals with periodically published lists, such as death or marriage lists, in early modern newspapers.

In cooperation with the University of Innsbruck, Institute of Musicology and the International Gustav Mahler Society a web presence with comprehensive information on life and work of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) – one of the most prominent figures of the so-called Viennese Modernity – is to be created.

This project aims to create a basis for an edition of letters by recording and indexing all of Gustav Mahler’s letters that have so far appeared in print.

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

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

Capture and cataloguing of medieval music manuscripts in Austria.

MINE is dedicated to collecting, analyzing, and evaluating prosopographical and biographical data in a structured and sustainable manner.

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

The project highlights the role of Byzantium as a global culture and analyzes the internal flexibility of Byzantine society.

Music played an important role in the self-conception and representation of the Habsburg dynasty.

St. Stephen’s Cathedral already is a spiritual centre in Vienna. In several project steps, gaps are now to be closed in order to be able to create an overall picture of the music at the Metropolitan and Cathedral Church of St. Stephen.

The Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna, founded in 1898, is not only one of the oldest musicological institutes in the world, but also one of the most renowned. The project is intended to collect essential basic materials for a planned history of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna.

Georeferencing of place names and collection of persons and scientific terminology in Nestroy's work.

This project aims to explore if a process of transculturation occurred between the conqueror and conquered societies and how closely Islamic sedentary elites interacted with nomadic conquerors between the 13th and the first half of the 15th century in present day Iran and Central Asia.

The ÖBL is the only encyclopaedic work in Europe to record the life courses and career paths of prominent personalities in the entire territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy as well as in the First and Second Republics. In selecting the entries, we are committed to taking individuals into account who do not hold a prominent place in public consciousness.

The Austrian Encyclopedia of Music sees itself as a fundamental reference work for the music (history) of Austria in all its manifestations.

ParlaMint contains comparable corpora of parliamentary debates of 29 European countries and autonomous regions, covering at least the period from 2015 to 2022.

This research project aims to reveal the importance and originality of baroque poet Pietro Pariati (1665–1733) by making the complete edition of his sacred and profane texts for music accessible to the scientific community and to a wide public audience.

The research project is dedicated to the complex cross-media combinations between music, text(s) and images in the Penitential Psalms produced for the sixteenth-century Wittelsbach court in Munich. As part of a comprehensive digital research environment we will provide digital image annotation for the pictorial programmes of Hans Mielich as well as a digital edition of the humanist Declarationes, written by Samuel Quicchelberg.

The Prosopographical Research Platform Austria (PFP) integrates person-based research at OeAW using DH methods, Semantic Web, Linked Open Data, and AI.

A web service for individuals, works, institutions, places, and events specifically for Vienna around 1900.

Portfolio/Showroom is an integrated data management and presentation solution for artists and scientists.

In her life memoirs, Clara Katharina Pollaczek wrote about meeting Arthur Schnitzler when they were young and, above all, about their time together, during which she was his central partner. We present a digital edition of the manuscript, which has only been partially corrected.

The Austrian part of PROVIDEH, carried out by exploration space, is an open innovation space against the background of art driven innovation, artistic activism and social innovation to explore how the humanities might contribute to co-create a more just, inclusive, and sustainable future.

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.

The project deals with relational adjectives and their historical development in German.

Socio-economical analysis of a prototypical medieval monastery by using digital methods.

The project will develop a dissemination strategy for a more effective communication of the content in the DH Course Registry.

The ERC project RELEVEN aims to explore the events in the Christian world in the “short eleventh century” (c. 1030–1095), while devising a novel methodological approach to express heterogeneous and even conflicting data.

The CD series “Klingende Forschung” is a project between musicological research and musical practice. In cooperation with the Phonogrammarchiv, concerts organized by the Department of Musicology are recorded and documented, including a scientific booklet published by the OeAW.

The project explores the concurrent establishing of musicology and art history as academic disciplines at the University of Vienna as part of an education reform conducted by Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein (1811–1888).

Founded by Berlin critic Siegfried Jacobsohn in 1905, the periodical „Die Schaubühne“, initially a theatre magazine, became one of the most important cultural journals of its time. A digital edition aims to provide access to the 26 volumes of the „Schaubühne“ in a fully searchable format.

In recent years, biographical and literary documents of Arthur Schnitzler have been digitized and edited. This website links these materials across projects for the first time. Users can access information on each day of Schnitzler's adult life through a simple interface.

The project is aimed at developing and publishing a historical-critical edition of the early literary works of Arthur Schnitzler in printed and digital forms.

180 historical texts featuring Arthur Schnitzler’s public persona. Together, they create a 'public biography' of Schnitzler by collecting what the public could know about him.

The project “Arthur Schnitzler – Journal” includes a digital edition of the 16,407 entries that writer Arthur Schnitzler noted in his journal.

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

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

This webpage contains several visualizations, which make it possible to measure the geographical space in which Arthur Schnitzler has moved as an adult.

In 1905, Arthur Schnitzler compiled a typescript that listed all the authors and works he had read up to that point. These readings are now made available digitally for the first time.

Among the artist myths of the 19th and 20th centuries, that of Franz Schubert occupies an exceptional position.

The project is cataloging the first volume of the Vienna mercantile record. This predecessor of the commercial register (company register) contains a complete list of merchants and trading companies for the period from 1725 to 1758.

The project is dedicated to the whereabouts of Schubert autographs in the first half of the 20th century and focuses on the collection of the music publisher August Cranz, who acquired the extensive music archive of the Viennese Schubert publisher Anton Diabelli.

Research platform (in preparation), including a database of Franz Schubert's autograph musical sources.

A bibliographical and biographical semantic web resource on Karl Kraus, linking current and future research and edition projects on the author.

The Vienna research group of the New Schubert Edition, located at the OeAW since 1980, is in an international partnership within a long-term musicological edition project based at the University Tübingen, whose goal is the scientific-critical publication of all of Franz Schubert’s works.

Collaborative efforts of the research unit "Linguistics" regarding its sociolinguistic scope with the SFB "German in Austria"

The project considers for the Shahi kingdoms (c. 7th–10th centuries) which played a pivotal role in the history of Central, Inner, and South Asia.

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.

SSHOC establishes an European digital infrastructure for Social Sciences and Humanities researchers as part of the broader EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) initiative.

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.

This project is dedicated to harmonizing, digitizing and archiving data collected over the last 50 years in the context of excavations at Tell el-Daba in Egypt.

The goal of the project is the development of a sustainable terminology planning strategy and terminology infrastructure in Mongolia.

THANADOS focuses on the digital collection and presentation of Early Medieval cemeteries in the area of present-day Austria.

The cooperation project TibSchol, hosted at the IKGA, explores the formative phase of the Tibetan Buddhist scholastic tradition by means of digital editing and a prosopographic database.

The Training Digital Scholars in Digital Humanities will be supported and the knowledge exchange between V4 countries and Austria will be fostered.

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.

TUNOCENT will provide up-to-date linguistic data and analysis for the hitherto almost unknown Arabic varieties spoken in northwestern and central Tunisia.

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

The VieCPro project is creating a prosopographical database of the early modern Viennese court and uses innovative digital methods for documentation and analysis.

Vienna is particularly multilingual. To show the diversity of the city, the project surveys the competences and use of different languages and varieties of German in Vienna.

The Vienna Time Machine project forms a part of the European Time Machine initiative, with which the ACDH-CH is heavily involved.

The research project explores historical perceptions of Vienna by combining 18th and early 19th century travel guides with digital text analysis and GIS-based methods.

The main goal of the project is to compile a complete list of Bruckner copyists on the basis of the approximately 700 manuscript sources that have been indexed so far

Based on arrival lists in the "Wiener Diarium", containing high level of information density and knowledge potential:, the aim of this project is to (semi-)automatically analyse this wealth of information with the help of digital methods.

This interdisciplinary project uses thermography, machine learning and signal processing in order to create digitized watermarks for databases as well as manuscript descriptions. Hence new methods of digitally recording, identifying and categorizing watermarks will be developed. All Schubert manuscripts from the music collections of Wienbibliothek and the Austrian National Library will be scanned and the data structured according to MEI guidelines.

The WBÖ project cluster brings together all long-term project activities centred around the Dictionary of Historical Bavarian Dialects in Austria and South Tyrol (WBÖ) at the ACDH-CH.

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

With its productions, which were primarily sentimental and melodramatic in nature, Wien-Film occupied a special position in the film industry in the Third Reich.

Whereas the imagination of Vienna in feature films has already been scientifically researched exhaustively, such an investigation is still pending for the genre of cultural films.

This project explores the medieval reception and interpretation of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem in 70 AD, examining its presence in chronicles, anti-Jewish treatises, sermon collections, and biblical commentaries.

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