Data-driven scholarship in the humanities requires the appropriate tools and software for the production, description, visualization, annotation, and analysis of its objects of interest. Drawing from the abundance of available open source software from the DH community, our spectrum of services ranges from hosting existing tools to developing bespoke solutions tailored to the specific data models and needs of a project and researcher. To continuously improve and expand our portfolio, we explore emerging trends, familiarize ourselves with state-of-the-art developments, and generally strive to foster a culture of openness, learning, and curiosity.

Our applications support collaborative work and offer programmatic access to data via well-defined APIs. We release most of our code on GitHub under open source licenses (MIT by default).

The programming languages most frequently used in the ACDH ecosystem are Python, TypeScript, and PHP. We utilize a variety of frameworks, both in front- (VueJS, ReactJS) and back-end (Django, Flask). We put particular emphasis on quality assurance (linting, testing) and modern deployment strategies.

Austriacisms – AMC meets Variationist Linguistics

Austriacisms – AMC meets Variationist Linguistics

CROSS-UNIT COOPERATION 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.

Beyond the Item – Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects

Beyond the Item – Biographies and Itineraries of Cultural Heritage Objects

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

ChIA – Accessing and Analyzing Cultural Images

ChIA – Accessing and Analyzing Cultural Images

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.

DYLEN – Diachronic Dynamics of Lexical Networks

DYLEN – Diachronic Dynamics of Lexical Networks

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

DYSEN – Dynamic Sentiment Analyses

DYSEN – Dynamic Sentiment Analyses

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

EUROTORT – Database of European case law on tort law

EUROTORT – Database of European case law on tort law

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)…

FemCareVienna

FemCareVienna

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.

Digital Archive Barbara Frischmuth

Digital Archive Barbara Frischmuth

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.

HAPA – Linguistic History of Albanian Place Names

HAPA – Linguistic History of Albanian Place Names

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

HIT – Histories in Transition

HIT – Histories in Transition

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.

Kabinettsratsprotokolle

Kabinettsratsprotokolle

Critical moments of a republic in its own words: a scholarly edition of Austria's cabinet council minutes 1919-1920.

Karl Kraus – Legal Papers

Karl Kraus – Legal Papers

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

LOI – The Land of Israel in Geonic Times

LOI – The Land of Israel in Geonic Times

Explore Jewish relationships with the ancestral homeland through literature from the rise of Islam to the First Crusade (7th–11th centuries).

MAMEMS – Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society

MAMEMS – Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society

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

MMP – Mapping Medieval Peoples

MMP – Mapping Medieval Peoples

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

Margins at the Centre

Margins at the Centre

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

(Ps.)-Athanasius – Expositiones in Psalmos

(Ps.)-Athanasius – Expositiones in Psalmos

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.

Arthur Schnitzler – Literary Correspondences I

Arthur Schnitzler – Literary Correspondences I

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

Arthur Schnitzler – Literary Correspondences II

Arthur Schnitzler – Literary Correspondences II

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

Shawi – The Shawi-type Arabic dialects

Shawi – The Shawi-type Arabic dialects

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

SiCProD – Sigmund of Tyrol’s Court

SiCProD – Sigmund of Tyrol’s Court

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

SOLA – The Apocryphal Sunday

SOLA – The Apocryphal Sunday

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…

Tarim Brahmi – The Characters that shaped the Silk Road

Tarim Brahmi – The Characters that shaped the Silk Road

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.

Tillich Correspondence

Tillich Correspondence

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

Tillich Lectures

Tillich Lectures

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.

VICAV – Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties

VICAV – Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties

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

WIBARAB – What is bedouin-type Arabic?

WIBARAB – What is bedouin-type Arabic?

CROSS-UNIT COOPERATION 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 – Young Believers Online

YouBeOn – Young Believers Online

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