Projects
This project explores the dynamics of and relations between Hanslick’s aesthetic, critical, and scholarly writings during his tenure at "Neue Freie Presse."
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. By making comparisons across the centuries and different socio-economic conditions of the city, this project intends to discuss the food consumption of Ottomans within the frameworks of the internal and external political and socio-economic circumstances of the empire.
The project makes the content of the publication "Elfriede Jelinek: Work and Reception" as well as newly researched data accessible.
Digital edition of the musical works of the Viennese court organist and composer Wenzel Raimund Birck
DHA is a virtual platform that supports the digital paradigm in Austrian humani-ties studies by distributing information and connecting stakeholders.
Linking two data resources relevant to the city of Vienna: the DIGITARIUM will be semantically enriched with information of the Wien Geschichte WIKI.
The project investigates the development of relational adjectives in the History of German.
As an active player in the pan-European digital research infrastructure DARIAH, the ACDH acts as a national hub in supporting the aims of the consortium.
The FWF-funded project "Prosopographie der Wiener Kaufmannschaft 1725-1758" focuses on the systematic cataloguing of the first Vienna mercantile record (Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv, Bestand 2.3.2 - Merkantil- und Wechselgericht, 2.3.2.B6.1). This is a precursor to the commercial register and contains a complete list of merchants and their trading companies based in Vienna for the period from 1725 to 1758.
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 scope and topic of the FWF Special Research Programme (SFB) “German in Austria” encompass the entire spectrum of variation and varieties of German in Austria.
The Anton Bruckner Lexikon Online (ABLO) covers people, places, terms and all of Bruckner’s works in more than 1,000 entries.
The project Arthur Schnitzler Journal includes a digital edition of the 16,407 entries that writer Arthur Schnitzler noted in his journal.
The consortium maintains a network of data repositories, service centres and centres of expertise across Europe, focussing on digital language resources.
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.
This project conducts a survey representative for Austria’s electoral population, that aims at a multidimensional representation of multilingualism in Austria regarding the parameters competence, usage and attitudes.
The project, funded by the City of Vienna, provides a critical edition of the Festa da camera by Carlo Arrigoni (1697-1744). The edition will be published in three languages - German, English and Italian.
The research project is devoted to the systematic analysis of Brahms reception in the Viennese press between 1862 and 1902.
The project aims at transcribing and evaluating the handwriting and lexis contained on the over 100-year-old WBÖ paper slips with the intention of engaging citizens with their linguistic and regional heritage.
This project is dedicated to the creation and (digital) publication of a historical-critical edition of the early literary works of Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931).
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.
Digitisation and publication of the printed volumes of the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (WBÖ) 1–5
Digitally editing W. H. Auden's letters to Stella Musulin, this project offers a fresh perspective on the later life and work of one of the most influential twentieth-century writers through newly available archival material.
This project is dedicated to collecting, analysing, and evaluating prosopographical and biographical data in a structured and sustainable manner.
A project exploring the intersections of literature, politics, (digital) media, and celebrity culture
The Austrian Encyclopedia of Music (oeml) sees itself as a fundamental reference work for the music (history) of Austria in all its manifestations.
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.
Representations of music in the visual arts significantly contribute to a better understanding of music history. This applies both to the depiction of musical instruments and music-making within concrete performative contexts, as well as to issues of symbolic communication within unique cultural and socio-political contexts.
The project is dedicated to the digitization and archiving of the collection of the Austrian ethnologist Friedrich Julius Bieber (1873-1924).
A collaborative edition project dedicated to the musical oeuvre of the composer Johannes Brahms.
This project will TEI-encode all available texts written in the Tarim Brahmi to allow a comprehensive paleographic investigation of the writing system.
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.
A collaborative edition project dedicated to the musical oeuvre of the Viennese composer Franz Schubert.
The project is dedicated to harmo-nizing, digitizing and archiving data collected over 50 years in the context of excavations at Tell el-Daba, Egypt.
Digitisation of the language surveys for the "Deutscher Wortatlas" using AI
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. It consists of several sub-databases which have been made publicly available since 2013.
A web service for individuals, works, institutions, places, and events specifically for Vienna around 1900.
The focus of the project is on the Arabic minority variety spoken in the Harran-Urfa region of Southeastern Turkey.
Music played an important role in the self-conception and representation of the Habsburg dynasty.
This project includes the annotation, the creation of registers, the link with authority records as well as the technical equipment of the Die Schaubühne, a weekly theatre- and culture magazine.
Various media phenomena are analysed in this research project regarding their audio-visuality.
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.
This online Corpus of Arabic varieties is a virtual research platform for Arabic dialectology and a testing ground for new text technological methods.
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 applied for here is intended to collect essential basic materials for a planned history of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna.
This project provides linguistic data and analysis for the hitherto almost unknown Arabic varieties spoken in northwestern and central Tunisia.
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.
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.
The ELF in TIGs project develops a new methodological and descriptive framework for the study of communication in transient multilingual contexts.
The project investigates the Arabic language and focuses on the differences between sedentary and Bedouin varieties in the Middle East and North Africa.
A corpus-based analysis of language use and linguistic variation in Nestroy’s “Possen”, parodies and dramas, which aims at producing an up-to-date reference work, which will open up new perspectives on the diversity in the language of the ingenious Viennese playwright.
The aim of the project is to present Bernhard's linguistically developed provocative power and its public consequences against a contemporary historical background.
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.
DRACMarkS analyses watermarks found in Franz Schubert's manuscripts with the aid of thermography, machine learning and signal processing and uses methods inspired by techniques found in fingerprint recognition to facilitate watermark comparison.
Digital Edition and Handbook: A diachronic-linguistic analysis of documented Albanian place names.
The book series "Wiener Bruckner-Studien" was founded in 2009 and covers a broad range of topics. Thanks to the collaboration of foreign Bruckner scholars, nine volumes are currently available.
The project re-investigates ancient Egyptian graves from Turah. Modern methods are applied to the 1910 excavated objects mostly hosted at KHM, Vienna.
The Emergence of the Austrian Federal Constitutional Law of 1920
Researching Persian & Arabic manuscripts, NoMansLand explores transculturation between nomadic & sedentary societies in medieval Iran & Central Asia.
The project addresses the perceived memorability of places in Vienna in the 18th and early 19th centuries by combining travel guides of the time with digital text analysis and GIS-based methods.
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 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 documents multilingualism in Vienna and tests acquisition strategies for sociolinguistic surveys amongst multilingual and minoritized groups.
The Austrian Biographical Dictionary 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.
A digital edition of Kraus' extensive analysis of the beginning of National Socialist rule in Germany, 1933.
The project utilizes the high information density of the arrival lists published in the “Wien[n]erisches Diarium” from 1703 to 1725 with the help of digital, (semi-)automatic methods.
Capture and cataloguing of medieval music manuscripts in Austria
This project is dedicated to the documentation and lexicographic processing of the varied basal and regional dialects of (former) Austria.
The new edition of Johann Joseph Fux's works is a major contribution to Baroque music research.
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.
This project considers discourses on music at the pluricultural Slavonian and the Banat military frontiers between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire.
The research project is devoted to complex cross-media combinations of music, text(s) and image(s) in sixteenth-century illuminated choirbooks produced for the Wittelsbach court in Munich.
The project aims to investigate the practical, mental and emotional dimensions of human interactions with the materials of the dead (graves, human remains and artefacts) in early medieval central and eastern Europe (5th to 8th centuries CE).
Connecting Kraus-Scholarship to the Semantic Web
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