Project Archive

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 liturgical musical sources that constitute an important part of this cultural heritage are made digitally accessible and subjected to scholarly analysis.

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

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 William V of Bavaria and Renata of Lorraine.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.