ABaC:us – Austrian Baroque Corpus

ABaC:us – Austrian Baroque Corpus

ABaCus is digital collection of Austrian baroque literature, that invites text-technological research from literary, historical and linguistic perspectives.

Ancient Myths

Ancient Myths

Ancient mythology provided court poets and librettists with a rich reservoir from which to constantly restage the legitimization of power and authority, especially in Baroque opera.

Austrian Dialect Cartography 1924–1956

Austrian Dialect Cartography 1924–1956

This project explores Austrian dialect maps from 1924 to 1956 and the way they reflect the politics and ideologies connected to linguistic research.

Baroque Literature

Baroque Literature

This project is dedicated to studying Austrian baroque literature, particularly the works of Abraham a Sancta Clara, with text-technological methods.

Beethoven the Younger

Beethoven the Younger

Building on previous research projects into opera and sacred music at the Bonn Electoral Court as a center of musical excellence, this book project proposes both to reconstruct Beethoven’s musical and intellectual milieu and to re-evaluate his early creativity.

Birck – digital edition

Birck – digital edition

Digital edition of the musical works of the Viennese court organist and composer Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718–1763).

Bruckner’s Viennese Copyists

Bruckner’s Viennese Copyists

The main goal of the project is to compile a complete list of Bruckner copyists on the basis of the approximately 700 manuscript sources that have been indexed so far

CANTUS Network

CANTUS Network

For many centuries, the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg, along with its suffragan dioceses of Brixen, Freising, Regensburg and Salzburg, played a key role in the cultural history of Austria and Bavaria. It is thus all the more important that the many surviving…

CBAB – Cremation Bronze Age Burials

CBAB – Cremation Bronze Age Burials

The shared online database developed by this project helps to collect and compare data on cremation burials during the Late Bronze Age.

CLS INFRA – Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure

CLS INFRA – Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure

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.

Choirbook of the Munich Wedding (1568)

Choirbook of the Munich Wedding (1568)

Centerpiece of the research project is MS 2129 of the music collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna – a lavishly decorated choirbook produced by Richard of Genoa, singer and scribe of the Wittelsbach music chapel in Munich, for the 1568 wedding of…

DAACDA – Downed Allied Air Crew Database Austria

DAACDA – Downed Allied Air Crew Database Austria

The web app developed in this co-operation with Uni Graz visualizes all Western Allied plane crashes in the area of present day Austria during WW II.

dariahTeach

dariahTeach

The ACDH-CH participates in dariahTeach, a project dedicated to developing open-source, multilingual teaching materials for the digital arts and humanities.

DEFC – Digitizing Early Farming Cultures

DEFC – Digitizing Early Farming Cultures

As a joint project with OREA, DEFC has developed an app for curating, exploring, and retrieving archaeological datasets related to early farming cultures.

Digitale Musikanalyse mit MEI

Digitale Musikanalyse mit MEI

Digitale Musikedition

Digitale Musikedition

Digitales Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner

Digitales Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner

DiTAH – Digital Transformation of Austrian Humanities

DiTAH – Digital Transformation of Austrian Humanities

Digital Transformation of Austrian Humanities (DiTAH) is a collaborative project of nine Austrian research institutions that seeks to establish and promote the use of digital tools and methods in the humanities research and education in Austria.

DWA Austria pilot study

DWA Austria pilot study

Digitization of the language surveys for the “Deutscher Wortatlas” using AI

ECCE – Evolution of Consonant Cluster in English

ECCE – Evolution of Consonant Cluster in English

The project ECCE is developing an interactive database and a web-app for studying word-final consonant clusters in Middle and Early Modern English.

Joseph Eckhel and his numismatic network

Joseph Eckhel and his numismatic network

This project aims at reconstructing 18th c. numismatist Joseph Eckhel’s scholarly correpondence and creating a virtual research environment for the ressource.

ELF in TIGs – Englisch as a lingua franca

ELF in TIGs – Englisch as a lingua franca

The ELF in TIGs project develops a new methodological and descriptive framework for the study of communication in transient multilingual contexts.

ELLViA – English in the Linguistic Landscape of Vienna, Austria

ELLViA – English in the Linguistic Landscape of Vienna, Austria

The project investigates meaning-making through the use of English vs. German on written public signs in the linguistic landscape of Vienna.

Der Engel mit der Posaune

Der Engel mit der Posaune

DHInfra.at

DHInfra.at

DHInfra.at is building an infrastructure for digitally supported research in the Austrian humanities.

exploreAT!

exploreAT!

Explore.AT! is developing and testing innovative methods to explore a corpus of Bavarian dialect samples collected over the course of the 20th century.

Family Matters

Family Matters

Everyone in Austria and far beyond is probably familiar with Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th century and exerted great influence on European politics. But have you ever heard of her grandmother Eleonora Magdalena? A digital…

Ludwig von Ficker – Der Brenner

Ludwig von Ficker – Der Brenner

The Tyrolean cultural journal Der Brenner, founded by publisher Ludwig von Ficker, represents an important literary and contemporary historical contribution for the entire German-speaking area.

GenR Loanwords

GenR Loanwords

Examination of the predominantly Greek borrowed vocabulary in the Midrash Genesis Rabbah, written in Rabbinic Hebrew and Aramaic.

Matura exams in german

Matura exams in german

This corpus-based study investigates how mode of composition (by hand/ computer) influences orthographic performance in German Matura exams.

GrocerIST – Grocers of Istanbul

GrocerIST – Grocers of Istanbul

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.

Handke: in Zungen

Handke: in Zungen

This project investigates and digitally catalogues the use of foreign languages in dramatic literature by the Austrian writer Peter Handke (*1942).

Hanslick in Context

Hanslick in Context

The project aims at critically analyzing the eclectic intellectual background of Eduard Hanslick’s aesthetic treatise “On the Musically Beautiful”, the genetic factors of which are made transparent from an overarching perspective.

Hanslick, Adler, and Musicology

Hanslick, Adler, and Musicology

The project explores the concurrent establishing of musicology and art history as academic disciplines at the University of Vienna as part of an education reform conducted by Leopold, Count von Thun und Hohenstein (1811–1888).

Monastic_Music_Collections

Monastic_Music_Collections

The music archives of the monasteries of Melk, Göttweig, and Klosterneuburg house almost 20,000 musical sources. This project focuses on cataloging and indexing these collections.

Kreutzer – Correspondence

Kreutzer – Correspondence

LaBaSi – Late Babylonian Signs

LaBaSi – Late Babylonian Signs

LaBaSi is an online cuneiform sign database based on the TEI Guidelines that will elucidate the diachronic development of sign forms.

Language Structure and Use in J. N. Nestroy's Plays

Language Structure and Use in J. N. Nestroy's Plays

A corpus-based analysis of language use in linguistic variation on Nestroy's "Possen", parodies and dramas, which aim to producing an up-to-date reference work, which will open up new perspectives on the diversity in the language of the ingenious Viennese…

Mahler – Correspondence

Mahler – Correspondence

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.

Mittelalterliche Musikhandschriften

Mittelalterliche Musikhandschriften

Musik – Identität – Raum

Musik – Identität – Raum

Musik, Medizin und Psychiatrie

Musik, Medizin und Psychiatrie

Musik und Wiener Kongress

Musik und Wiener Kongress

Musik des Ersten Weltkriegs

Musik des Ersten Weltkriegs

Musikarchiv Spitz

Musikarchiv Spitz

Musikgeschichte Österreichs und Zentraleuropas

Musikgeschichte Österreichs und Zentraleuropas

Nominalized Infinitive

Nominalized Infinitive

The project combines empirical and theoretical research in exploring the emergence and development of the German nominalized infinitive.

PARTHENOS

PARTHENOS

As a cooperation partner, the ACDH contributes to this European consortium’s goal to pool activities and resources for heritage e-research.

RISM-Oberösterreich

RISM-Oberösterreich

RITA – Reading in the Alps

RITA – Reading in the Alps

The project collects data on private book ownership in the catholically dominated rural areas of the Central Alps, particularly in 18th century Tyrol.

Schubert’s Circles of Friends – Correspondence

Schubert’s Circles of Friends – Correspondence

The correspondence within Schubert’s close circles of friends comprises private letters exchanged between 1806 and 1830.

SyHD

SyHD

The project "Syntax of Hessian Dialects" is concerned with the analysis of syntactic structures of dialects in the German state of Hesse.

Thun Correspondence – A Digital Edition

Thun Correspondence – A Digital Edition

This project is developing a digital edition and web-app of 19th c. Austrian politician and author Leo von Thun-Hohenstein's correspondences.

travel!digital

travel!digital

travel!digital takes you on an virtual tour through a unique collection of early Baedeker travel guides.

TUNICO

TUNICO

TUNICO investigated a contemporary variety of Arabic using an innovative approach that combined the analysis of corpus and lexicographic data.

VOICE – CLARIAH

VOICE – CLARIAH

This project rebuilds and updates the online interface and backend of the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English utilizing and enhancing the CLARIAH-AT infrastructure.

Wien im Kulturfilm

Wien im Kulturfilm

Whereas the imagination of Vienna in feature films has already been scientifically researched exhaustively, such an investigation is still pending for the genre of cultural films.

Webern – Wiener Arbeitsstelle

Webern – Wiener Arbeitsstelle

Anton Webern, one of the most influential composers of the 20th century, was born in Vienna, studied musicology at the University of Vienna and spent most of his life in the area around the city.

Wien-Film

Wien-Film

With its productions, which were primarily sentimental and melodramatic in nature, Wien-Film occupied a special position in the film industry in the Third Reich.