Over the years, numerous digital resources have been produced through projects led by the Department of Musicology. These resources include research platforms, scholarly editions, catalogs of works, lexicons, source inventories, as well as databases and applications. In collaboration with the research unit DH Research & Infrastructure, the department develops sustainable solutions for standardization and reuse.

By releasing the Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon (Austrian Encyclopedia of Music) in 2002, the former Commission for Music Research broke new ground in digital lexicography. Building on these experiences, the Anton Bruckner Lexicon online was launched as a specialized resource. Many of our databases are the result of considerable documentation efforts by predecessor institutions—whether through the analysis of music journals to cumulate research data on Austrian music (since 1979), or through compiling comprehensive information on the life and work of Anton Bruckner (now integrated into Bruckner Online). For a number of years, the creation of source corpora with digitized versions of rare primary sources—produced with the institute's proprietary Traveler scanner—has been a focal point in digital musicology. This has led to significant collections, such as those of medieval music manuscripts from the Austrian National Library (ÖNB) and selected libraries and monastic collections in Austria, which currently both form a work-in-progress. A comparatively recent development is the integration of fragmented resources into comprehensive platforms. Cantus Planus and Bruckner online were the first of these, with Fux online, Schubert-digital, and Hanslick online following suit. Presently, the focus of our digital editions lies on textual sources, including the medieval Libri Ordinarii and the works of Eduard Hanslick (Vom Musikalisch-Schönen and reviews). Notably, digital encoding standards set by the Music Encoding Initiative have been tested on Bruckner’s compositional studies.