The online portal LAPIS is currently developed by the research units DH Research & Infrastructure and Linguistics at the ACDH in cooperation with the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna. The project is led by Alexandra N. Lenz.

LAPIS is designed to collect the rich findings and data on language(s) in Austria that several research projects yielded recently. Such results or data may target, e.g., language use or language attitudes by offering speech recordings or survey data on language perception, they may focus German, or any other languages used in Austria. LAPIS not only aims to make them visible, but also searchable and analyzable in the long term.

LAPIS targets the broader public as well as teachers, students, and researchers. Therefore, it will have a twofold character: First, LAPIS will be an information system that provides space for multimedia publications and presentations of the latest research results on language(s) in Austria. Second, it will be a research platform that enables users to browse and analyze research data on the topic. To do so, LAPIS will offer various means to query the corpus and visualize, map or analyze data quantitatively natively in a browser. Additionally, users will be able to share their results.

Linguists, DH experts and programmers cooperate in the development of LAPIS.  The project team currently consists of the following colleagues: Jakob Bal, Alexandra N. Lenz (PI), Agnes Kim, Kilian Kukelka, Markus Pluschkovits (coordinator), Anja Wittibschlager and Daniel Schopper (technical supervisor).