Projects

The project documents multilingualism in Vienna and tests acquisition strategies for sociolinguistic surveys amongst multilingual and minoritized groups.

Digital edition of the musical works of the Viennese court organist and composer Wenzel Raimund Birck

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

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

A collaborative edition project dedicated to the musical oeuvre of the composer Johannes Brahms.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Digital Edition and Handbook: A diachronic-linguistic analysis of documented Albanian place names.

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

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).

AI+ addresses the question of how to collaboratively expand society's awareness and resilience around the operation and impact of algorithms, exemplified on the city of Vienna.

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

This project provides linguistic data and analysis for the hitherto almost unknown Arabic varieties spoken in northwestern and central Tunisia.

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.

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

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.

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 Austrian part of PROVEDH, 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 project re-investigates ancient Egyptian graves from Turah. Modern methods are applied to the 1910 excavated objects mostly hosted at KHM, Vienna.

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

Connecting Kraus-Scholarship to the Semantic Web

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

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.

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.

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.

The project investigates the development of relational adjectives in the History of German.

Researching Persian & Arabic manuscripts, NoMansLand explores transculturation between nomadic & sedentary societies in medieval Iran & Central Asia.

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

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

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.

DHA is a virtual platform that supports the digital paradigm in Austrian humani-ties studies by distributing information and connecting stakeholders.

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

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.

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

Digitisation and publication of the printed volumes of the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria (WBÖ) 1–5

This project is dedicated to collecting, analysing, and evaluating prosopographical and biographical data in a structured and sustainable manner.

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, 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 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.

A project exploring the intersections of literature, politics, (digital) media, and celebrity culture

The aim of the project is to present Bernhard's linguistically developed provocative power and its public consequences against a contemporary historical background.

Capture and cataloguing of medieval music manuscripts in Austria

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.

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

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 Emergence of the Austrian Federal Constitutional Law of 1920

A collaborative edition project dedicated to the musical oeuvre of the Viennese composer Franz Schubert.

Digitisation of the language surveys for the "Deutscher Wortatlas" using AI

This project is dedicated to the documentation and lexicographic processing of the varied basal and regional dialects of (former) Austria.

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.

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.

Linking two data resources relevant to the city of Vienna: the DIGITARIUM will be semantically enriched with information of the Wien Geschichte WIKI.

Various media phenomena are analysed in this research project regarding their audio-visuality.

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

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