Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage
| Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage | |
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| founding | 2015 |
| Sponsorship | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| place | Vienna , Austria |
| management | Alexandra Lenz (institute director; since 2020),
Karlheinz Mörth (Deputy Institute Director; since 2020) Tara Lee Andrews (Research Director; since 2018) Georg Vogeler (Research Director; since 2018) |
| Website | http://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/ |
The Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage ( ACDH-CH ) is a research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). Its task is to promote the humanities through the targeted use of digital methods and tools.
history
The Austrian Center for Digital Humanities was founded in 2015 as the 29th institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences under the presidency of Anton Zeilinger , Michael Alram , Georg Brasseur and Brigitte Mazohl . At the beginning of 2020 there was an expansion. This was made clear by the inclusion of "Cultural Heritage" in the name.
The aim of the competence center is to bundle existing expertise and resources in the field of digital humanities and to use the synergies of a close-knit local network. In coordination with the universities of Vienna and Graz , which at the same time set up new chairs for digital humanities in their faculties, the institute acts as part of a larger Austrian network that is supposed to harmonize developments in the field of digital and social infrastructures. It was founded with start-up funding from the National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development . The financing is supplemented by third-party funded projects (PARTHENOS, #dariahTeach, Humanities-at-Scale, CLARIN + etc.).
Research areas
In its research, the ACDH-CH primarily deals with text and language-related questions and focuses on non-standardized and historical linguistic varieties. In addition, research is carried out on technical standards and text technology methods. Digital editing and publishing are basic methods of the digital humanities, which play a central role in almost all ACDH-CH projects. The team strives to implement standards and technologies that are as open as possible and to implement sustainable solutions that ensure the efficient reuse of research results and data. Other important topics in ongoing projects are digital prosopography, entity linking, geo-information, visualization, open science and linked open data.
In the field of digital lexicography, intensive lexicographical research is being carried out on the one hand, and innovative tools and services are being worked on with great emphasis on the other. In addition to the spoken language (Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria, Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties), the focus is also on older language periods (Austrian Baroque Corpus). Another focus is on editing the works , letters and diaries of Arthur Schnitzler .
The ACDH-CH participates in the development of sustainable digital infrastructures in the cultural and human sciences and works on the development and operation of relevant core components. An important cornerstone of the ACDH-CH activities is the involvement in the European research infrastructure consortia CLARIN ERIC (European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology) and DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities). As part of these activities, the ACDH-CH u. a. a repository for digital research data (ARCHE - A Resource Center for the Humanities), which ensures the long-term availability and targeted dissemination of digital research data for the Austrian DH community. ARCHE has been a certified data center of the European CLARIN network since 2018.
Knowledge transfer
Although primarily interested in the academic discourse and its networking, there are activities that are aimed at a broader public. This includes the organization of conferences and the series of events ACDH-CH Tool Galleries and the ACDH-CH Lectures.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The ACDH Becomes ACDH-CH. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): OeAW annual report 2015 . Vienna May 2016, p. 62 .
- ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): OeAW annual report 2017 . Vienna May 2018, p. 90 ( oeaw.ac.at [PDF]).
- ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): OeAW annual report 2016 . Vienna May 2017, p. 78 ( oeaw.ac.at [PDF]).