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DH Projects

Ongoing DH projects

Digital Humanities Infrastructure Austria

Head of project Georg Vogeler (Graz)
Contributors Christina Antenhofer (Salzburg); Alan van Beek (Salzburg); Karoline Döring (Salzburg); Peter Färberböck (Salzburg/Krems); Julia Hintersteiner (Salzburg); Isabella Nicka (Salzburg/Krems); Martin Schäler (Salzburg); Lina Maria Zangerl (Salzburg); Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (Salzburg)
Classification History, German Studies, Informatics, Art history
Duration 03/2023–06/2026
Website and contact https://www.dhinfra.at/
Funding BMBWF
Abstract DHInfra.at is building an infrastructure for digitally supported research in the Austrian humanities. It fills the gap between standard offerings in the cultural heritage institutions (digitalisation), in research data management (curated and integrated repositories vs. institutional repositories), in software solutions (subject-specific open source products), and in high-performance computing offerings for the natural, technical and life sciences in the processing of large amounts of data with machine learning. There are plans to procure and implement equipment for the digitisation and storage of data from cultural heritage institutions as well as hardware for research with and productive use of machine learning processes. Open source software will be adapted and further developed to meet the specific needs of the community. The existing CLARIAH-AT consortium facilitates governance and long-term maintenance of the infrastructure.
The measures initiated in DiTAH to set up the DH helpdesk will be continued in the project. In addition, usage scenarios and competences in the five fields of data capturing and enhanced image sensing, open source software, data management and repositories, infrastructure as a service and machine learning are currently being surveyed at the participating locations in order to determine the specific hardware requirements for the shared infrastructure.

Digitale Transformation der Österreichischen Geisteswissenschaften

Head of project Georg Vogeler (Graz)
Contributors Christina Antenhofer (Salzburg); Alan van Beek (Salzburg); Karoline Döring (Salzburg); Peter Färberböck (Salzburg/Krems); Julia Hintersteiner (Salzburg); Isabella Nicka (Salzburg/Krems); Lina Maria Zangerl (Salzburg); Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (Salzburg)
Classification History, German Studies, Art history
Duration 5/2020‒12/2024
Website and contact https://ditah.at//
Funding BMBWF
Abstract The University of Salzburg offers a wide range of courses, data resources and research in the field of DH. Within the framework of DiTAH, humanities scholars from the Faculty of Social Sciences (GW) and the Faculty of Cultural Studies (KW) work closely with computer scientists from the Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences (DAS) and the IT services of PLUS. This interdisciplinary approach, based on the three pillars of ‘infrastructure’, ‘methods and tools’ and ‘knowledge transfer’, enables complex research questions to be addressed and innovative solutions to be developed that serve to impart and expand digital skills, methods and infrastructures.
The DiTAH network of the three faculties GW, KW and DAS has three main objectives: Firstly, the creation of a DH helpdesk for consulting, dissemination and coordination. It optimises the cooperation between DH researchers and DH teaching at PLUS; secondly, the intensification of DH teaching at the University of Salzburg. Students at all three faculties learn how DH methods are applied and what opportunities they offer from a disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective; thirdly, the evaluation of data models and data processing in the context of the Semantic Web and LOD in the cultural heritage sector. As part of a smaller DiTAH sub-project, the significance of semantic annotations and links to higher-level ontologies is being investigated so that data from DH projects can be analysed in terms of big(ger) data and reused in various scenarios.

Digital Hohensalzburg. Linked historical data on material room furnishings and use of space

Head of project Christina Antenhofer (Salzburg); Ingrid Matschinegg (Salzburg/Krems)
Contributors Stefan Zedlacher (Salzburg/Krems); Walter Brandstätter (Salzburg)
Classification History
Duration 2022‒2024
Website and contact https://hohensalzburg.digital/
Funding Salzburg (state)
Abstract

https://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/imareal-projekte/hohensalzburg-digital/; Baualterplan: Patrick Schicht; Illustration: Pixabay).


The aim of the project is the digital processing and linking of space and object-based information from historical sources and historical building data of Hohensalzburg. The gathered data will then be included in Time Machine Europe, with which a new way to experience virtual journeys through time and space has been established.
The project will be an interdiscipilinary cooperation of the department of History, the IZMF, the IMAREAL of the University of Salzburg and the fortress Hohensalzburg, the Time Machine organisation and the Insitute for architectur and media of the technical University of Graz.

Inventaria. The Making of Inventories as Social Practice. Deciphering the Semantic Worlds of Castle Inventories in the Historical Tyrol

Head of project Christina Antenhofer (Salzburg); Gerald Hiebel (Innsbruck); Ingrid Matschinegg (Salzburg/Krems); Claudia Posch (Innsbruck); Gerhard Rampl (Innsbruck)
Contributors Walter Brandstätter (Salzburg); Christoph Breser (Salzburg/Krems); Barbara Denicolò (Salzburg); Elisabeth Gruber-Tokić (Innsbruck); Karoline Irschara (Innsbruck); Andrea Mussmann (Innsbruck); Tobias Pamer (Innsbruck; bis 02/2023); Milena Peralta (Innsbruck); Simon Rabensteiner (Salzburg); Elisabeth Tangerner (Salzburg); Stefan Zedlacher (Salzburg/Krems)
Classification History, German Studies
Duration 2022‒2025
Website and contact https://www.inventaria.at
Funding FWF P 35988 (Einzelprojekt)
Abstract

Ausschnitt aus dem Inventaria-Knowledge-Graph, erstellt mithilfe der Ontologie CIDOC CRM und den zugehörigen Erweiterungen (CRMtex, CRMsci). Das Beispiel zeigt die Erstellung des Inventars für das Schloss Runkelstein im Jahr 1493 im Zuge des Pflegerwechsels von Hans von Leuchtenburg an Zyprian von Sarnthein (linke Bildhälfte). Darüber hinaus sind all jene Personen angefügt, die an der Erstellung des Inventars beteiligt waren und im Protokoll namentlich erwähnt sind (rechte Bildhälfte) © Inventaria 2023.

The interdisciplinary and inter-university project Inventaria investigates what life was like in medieval castles, using objects as sources. We take a peek through the keyhole into selected castles in historic Tyrol. The project is based on inventories, which are lists of the furniture and equipment found in castles, usually created when there was a change of ownership or administration.
How did people go about cataloguing and describing all these things? How were rooms inspected – or which ones were not recorded? Which people were involved in these processes and how did they put the flood of equipment into words? – We understand inventories as historical texts that tell stories by naming objects and rooms. They provide valuable insights into everyday and social history, into actions, feelings, memories, knowledge and sensory experiences associated with objects.
A remarkable number of such inventories have been preserved for the castles in the historical region of Tyrol for the period from the 14th to the 16th century: 130 of these inventories are being processed with Transkribus, an AI-based platform for text recognition of historical manuscripts. Graphs then visualise the semantic modelling of the information. Our project thus opens up new ways of analysing inventories by making them accessible both in terms of content and material form.
On the one hand, the project provides insights into the practice of inventorying, the social significance of spaces and objects in castles, and the people associated with them, as well as the history of Tyrol. In addition, we are developing methods in the field of digital humanities and object and practice history that can also be applied outside Tyrol.

Wie das Material ins Bild kam. Kulturelle Innovationen interdisziplinär mit KI und DH-Methoden erforschen

Head of project Isabella Nicka (Salzburg/Krems); Andreas Uhl (Salzburg)
Contributors Miriam Landkammer (Salzburg/Krems); Michael Linortner (Salzburg); Johannes Schuiki (Salzburg)
Classification Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces, Art History
Duration 26.9.2022–25.12.2024
Website and contact https://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/imareal-projekte/kiki
Funding Salzburg (state)
Abstract

Annotation dargestellter Holzmaserungen mit der Software CVAT (Bildbeispiel: Grablegung Christi, Wien, ÖNB cod. 2738, fol. 27v, Foto: Universität Salzburg – IMAREAL).

Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) this project aims to study paintings from the 14th and 15th centuries. The focus lies particularly on paintings in which materials and fabrics play a central role. On the basis of primary sources from the picture database REALonline machine recognitional techniques will be used to determine depicted material structures and surface qualities in book art and panel painting. These procedures enable analysis regarding the depicted material. Patterns and tendencies, but also special solutions, can be reognised in Big Data Corpora and their causalities can furthermore be studied using art historical methods.

Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank

Head of project Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (Salzburg)
Contributors Alan van Beek (Salzburg); Julia Hintersteiner (Salzburg)
Classification German Studies
Duration Long term project (online since 1992)
Website and contact https://mhdbdb.sbg.ac.at/
Funding Various sponsors such as CLARIAH-AT, DiTAH, permanently located at the University of Salzburg
Abstract Barrierefreiheit: Kurzbeschreibung des Bildes
Since the early 1970s, the MHDBDB has explored the middle high and early new high German vocabulary from an onomasiological perspective, i.e. via the meaning of the word. From 2016 to 2020, the database was redesigned and migrated. It now contains about 10.7 million tokens spread over 660 text editions of most diverse text types and genres, with about 6.7 million semantic annotations.
During the relaunch, the text editions of the database were transferred to TEI-XML. To allow any number of annotation levels in the e-texts, such as part-of-speech (POS), phrase and sentence structures, onomastics or semantics, the annotations are related to the text tokens via the Web Annotation Vocabulary in the stand-off method.

MHDBDB goes AI.

Head of Project Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (Salzburg)
Contributors Alan van Beek (Salzburg); Julia Hintersteiner (Salzburg)
Classification German Studies
Duration 01/2025–12/2025
Website and contact https://mhdbdb.plus.ac.at
Funding CLARIAH-AT
Abstract The LLM ‘ParzivAI’ is currently being created and trained at Heidelberg University. Dr Florian Nieser (HCHD) and Thomas Renkert (Heidelberg School of Education) are working with the Salzburg project team to train the chatbot using Middle High German and New High German data sets. The MHDBDB is providing its data and preparing it for the format. The release of the LLM ParzivAI is planned as an OER and follows the FAIR principles. This means that the LLM can be used in a wide range of areas, including German, linguistics, digital humanities, education (learning with AI/AI in education), computational linguistics and specific subject areas such as German studies and medieval studies. This opens up new avenues for research and application of knowledge in both academic research and practical applications.

Linked Open Middle Ages

Head of project Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (Salzburg); Luise Borek (Darmstadt)
Contributors Alan van Beek (Salzburg); Linda Beutel-Thurow (Salzburg); Karoline Döring (Salzburg); Peter Färberböck (Salzburg); Julia Hintersteiner (Salzburg)
Classification History, German Studies
Duration 05/2021‒07/2025
Website and contact https://offenesmittelalter.org
Funding DFG
Abstract
Medieval research objects are part of the cultural heritage. Preserving, developing and making them accessible in a variety of ways for further analysis is a core task of medievalists. Digital approaches and practices are constantly creating new possibilities for this, which is gradually changing the mode of research: The ‘Network Linked Open Middle Ages’ is intended to offer qualified young researchers an interdisciplinary platform to enrich relevant existing sources of digital medieval studies with innovative procedures, to evaluate these methods and to research the resources together in pilot studies.
Linked-Open-Data-Procedures (LOD) are intended to optimise the quality and depth of data access in such a way that new approaches to the research objects are opened up, which are not only sustainably developed, but whose contextualisation also contributes to a better understanding of the data. The evaluation of the applied methods and the identification of the resulting research potential form two equal pillars within the framework of the envisaged network. LOD is a pragmatically sensible option to tap and further enrich resources and thus make them visible, available and usable for very different research approaches. At the same time, LOD procedures adhere to the FAIR principles (“Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable”) and thus reflect the claim of the open network outlined here in terms of Open Science.
Digitisation turns objects into research data with a high level of evidence for a contemporary expert discourse. While LOD procedures are established for the registration of cultural assets, they have so far played hardly any role in the indexing of research data. Medieval studies, which is interdisciplinary per se, offers a suitable use case for a research-oriented adaptation of these procedures. Based on concrete resources and research contexts of the participating researchers, the network will systematically test for the first time to what extent LOD procedures can be implemented in order to improve the quality of the data and thus also the possibilities and quality of their research. The gained knowledge can be transferred to other disciplines and will be made available to the scientific community as ‘best practices’. This goes hand in hand with an exchange with various specialist communities and actors from the field of research data management.
The increased interconnectedness of the data is accompanied by an intensive cross-disciplinary exchange between the participating scientists and their institutions. The resulting networks promise a sustainable foundation for the future, which not only connects the data, but also the researchers involved.

Osmanische Natur in Reiseberichten, 1501–1850: Eine digitale Analyse

Head of project Arno Strohmeyer (Salzburg)
Contributors Doris Gruber (Wien); Güllü Yıldız (Istanbul); Jakob Ehmann (Wien); Jacopo Jandl (Wien); Michael Seidl (AIT); Michela Vignoli (AIT)
Classification History, Informatics
Duration 2022‒2025
Website and contact https://onit.oeaw.ac.at/
Funding FWF
Abstract

Ansicht von Konstantinopel von der Seite von Pera, Frontispiz von Vivant Denon, Allgemeine Reise=Encyklopädie…, Bd. 4, Berlin: Salfeld 1822, ©Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

This interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project analyzes Ottoman “nature” in travelogues on the Ottoman empire, printed between 1501 and 1850.
The leading questions are what role representations of nature played in the reports, whether and, if so, why differences occurred in diachronic and synchronic perspectives, and how the texts and images related to each other. This analysis aims to shed new light on transnational environmental and natural history.

Digital Scholarly Edition of Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic Sources 1500–1918

Head of project Arno Strohmeyer (Salzburg)
Contributors Yasir Yılmaz (Wien/Salzburg); Zsuzsa Cziráki (Wien); Laila Dandachi (Wien); Jakob Sonnberger (Graz)
Classification History
Duration 2020‒2024
Website and contact https://qhod.net
Funding ÖAW
Abstract

Bildausschnitt aus: Austausch der kaiserlichen und der osmanischen Großbotschaft bei Slankamen am 7. Dezember 1699, in: Gründ- und Umständlicher Bericht von denen Römisch-Kayserlichen wie auch Ottomannischen Groß-Bothschaften, Wien 1702. (c) Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München

QhoD is dedicated to producing critical digital editions of sources on Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy, covering the period from the inception of diplomatic relations between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries to the fall of both empires at the end of World War I. The QhoD project is inspired by recent culturological approaches to politics and the methodologies of “New Diplomatic History.” In its current phase, the project team focuses on editing all genres of textual and material sources documenting the grand embassy exchanges between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire during the early modern era. — Our platform welcomes external researchers and contributors interested in publishing their source editions as independent sub-projects.

REALonline – Image Database

Head of project Isabella Nicka (Salzburg/Krems); Peter Färberböck (Salzburg/Krems)
Contributors Peter Böttcher (Krems); Miriam Landkammer (Salzburg/Krems)
Classification History, Art history
Duration Long term project
Website and contact https://realonline.imareal.sbg.ac.at/
Abstract
The image database REALonline makes the visual cultural heritage from Austria and from regions of Central Europe available via the Internet with all its details. It forms the basis for the study of historical images using digital methods and at the same time makes their complex content accessible to all interested parties.

Sigmund of Tyrol’s Court. Practices – Actors – Spaces

Head of project Barbara Denicolò
Classification History
Duration 05/2025‒10/2025
Website and contact barbara.denicolo@plus.ac.at
Funding University of Salzburg with an Early Career Grant (Awardnr. 34824249); ÖAW
Abstract

Meister des Mornauer-Portraits: Herzog Sigismund von Österreich, genannt „der Münzreiche“ etwa 1465 – 1479, gemeinfrei (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sigismund_of_Tirol_(Alte_Pinakothek)_colour.jpg?uselang=de#Lizenz).

24 October 2027 marks the 600th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund, Prince of Tyrol and member of the Habsburg dynasty, also known as Sigmund the Coin-Rich (26 October 1427–4 March 1496). Sigmund was the son of Frederick IV of Tyrol (1382–1439) and his second wife Anna of Brunswick-Göttingen. Both his first marriage to Eleanor of Scotland and his second to Catherine of Saxony remained without heir apparent. He is well known in Tyrolean history, and his life and work have found their way into popular historical accounts.
Despite his importance for Tyrolean and Habsburg history, this Tyrolean prince has received little attention in research to date. Most of the information available is therefore based on superficial knowledge or very outdated publications that no longer meet current standards. His court in particular remains largely unexplored.
The planned project closes this research gap by drawing on the extensive source material and examining Sigmund’s court using approaches from recent court research and supporting technologies from the field of digital humanities.
These enable the existing sources to be processed in an economically and scientifically meaningful way, allowing them to be viewed and evaluated in their entirety or from a meta-perspective. Through automatic transcription, annotation and information extraction, a new, contemporary and efficient approach to the sources is being tested, offering new possibilities for insight.
The focus is on characterising Sigmund’s court on the basis of the people involved, the material and immaterial spaces used and created, the characteristic practices and the objects associated with them. In particular, it focuses on interactions and overlaps between the four categories of analysis: space, person, object and practice. The main focus is thus on the material and spatial conditions of the court and the question of how actors relate to and move within them.

Users First. Optimisation of user interface, user experience and crowdsourcing at the Middle High German Term Database

Head of project Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (Salzburg)
Contributors Alan van Beek (Salzburg); Julia Hintersteiner (Salzburg)
Classification German Studies
Duration 01/2025–12/2025
Website and contact https://mhdbdb.plus.ac.at
Funding CLARIAH-AT

The Wenceslas Bible – Digital Edition and Analysis

Head of project Manfred Kern (Salzburg)
Contributors Linda Beutel-Thurow (Salzburg); Martina Bürgermeister (Graz); Julia Hintersteiner (Salzburg); Edith Kapeller (Salzburg); Viktoria Spadinger (Salzburg); Max Kaiser (Wien); Christoph Steindl (Wien)
Classification German Studies, Informatics
Duration 01/02/2022‒31.10.2024
Website and contact https://edition.onb.ac.at/context:wenbibel
Funding Salzburg (state)
Abstract
The Bible of the Bohemian and German King Wenceslas IV/II, produced about 1390–1400, is one of the most precious manuscripts of the Austrian National Library and a cultural heritage object of the greatest importance. Part of the Ambraser Sammlung that was nominated for the National Document Register Memory of Austria within the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme in 2018, it conserves the earliest nearly complete German version of the Hebrew Bible, translated from the Latin vulgate version. The text is combined with a systematic programme of illustrations following an elaborate theological concept. In its present form, the manuscript is in six volumes (Cod. 2759–2764) consisting of 1214 parchment folios with 654 main and numerous marginal illustrations. The text is of immense philological interest, the illustrations are of the highest artistic value. Nevertheless, no digital facsimile nor edition of the text has ever been produced, nor is there a combined digital analysis of texts and illustrations. The project will create an interdisciplinary web-based edition consisting of a complete facsimile and transcription, an edition of the main text and all paratexts, a text-related analysis of the illustrations and a synopsis of the Latin version. It will include an editorial commentary, a translation concordance and an iconographic database. The project combines methods of philology, art history and computer science.

Completed DH projects

The domesticated space in medieval and early modern times

Head of project Thomas Kühtreiber (Salzburg/Krems)
Contributors Josef Handzel (Salzburg/Krems); Christina Schmid (Salzburg/Krems); Gabriele Schichta (Salzburg/Krems)
Classification Archeology, History
Completed 2015
Webseite and contact https://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/imareal-projekte/der-domestizierte-raum/
Abstract The aim of this project cluster, which was located at IMAREAL from 2006 to 2105, was to examine the “domesticated” space used for residential and economic purposes from the point of view of material culture.

The Mediality of Diplomatic Communication – Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople in the Mid-17th Century

Head of project Arno Strohmeyer (Salzburg)
Contributors Anna Huemer (Salzburg)
Classification History
Completed 2021
Website and contact http://diploko.at/
Abstract
This FWF-funded project examines the communication of Habsburg diplomats in Constantinople with the Imperial Court in Vienna. Their letters and travelogues will be analysed using modern computer-based methods and from the perspective of media studies. Media are understood as active agents that follow their own logic and significantly shape the transfer of information.

Historical recipe database of gastrosophy

Head of project Marlene Ernst (Salzburg)
Classification History
Completed 2020
Website and contact http://gastrosophie.sbg.ac.at/kbforschung/r-datenbank/
Abstract
The Historical Recipe Database serves as a collection of historical cookbooks and cookbook manuscripts (mainly from the Baroque period). More than 9000 recorded recipes from the late 15th to 18th centuries allow cross-source and cross-language analysis. Citizen Science participation will gradually expand the database.

Recipe tradition in the Middle Ages

Head of project Barbara Denicolò (Salzburg)
Classification History
Completed 2023
Website and contact barabara.denicolo@plus.ac.at
Abstract In cooperation with the Graz project Cooking Recipes of the Middle Ages (CoReMA), the German recipes written down from the 14th to the 16th century are compared. Using the historical discourse analysis, developments are analyzed based on selected questions of cultural history.

Sustainable creation of digital resources and tools for historical inventories

Head of project Christina Antenhofer (Salzburg); Ingrid Matschinegg (Salzburg/Krems)
Classification History
Completed 2021
Website and contact https://digital-humanities.at/de/dha/s-project/digital-tools-historical-inventories
Funding CLARIAH-AT
Abstract
Project within the framework of CLARIAH-AT from 2020 to 2021 (Austrian Center for Digital Humanities).

Ontology of Narratives of the Middle Ages

Head of project Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (Salzburg)
Contributors Peter Hinkelmanns (Salzburg); Miriam Landkammer (Salzburg/Krems); Isabella Nicka (Salzburg/Krems); Manuel Schwembacher (Salzburg)
Classification German Studies, Art History
Completed 2021
Website and contact http://onama.sbg.ac.at/
Funding ÖAW
Abstract
Since the 1st of March 2019, the project team of ONAMA has been working on the creation of a computer-aided system of relations of medieval narratological entities in texts and images. The project is funded by the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) until 31.12.2021 as part of the go!digital Next Generation funding program.
In cooperation between the MHDBDB and IMAREAL (REALonline), Peter Hinkelmanns, Miriam Landkammer, Isabella Nicka, Manuel Schwembacher and Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer (coordination) create a connection between the two databases in order to overcome the technical boundaries between pictorial and textual tradition.

Spängler Household Books

Head of project Reinhold Reith (Salzburg); Georg Stöger (Salzburg)
Classification History
Completed 2019
Website and contact https://www.spaengler-haushaltsbuecher.at/
Funding FWF
Abstract
The cooperation project of the Salzburg City Archives and the Department of History of the University of Salzburg, Die Ausgabenbücher der Kaufmannsfamilie Spängler (short Spängler Haushaltsbücher), provides an insight into the everyday life of a middle-class merchant family. A full-text edition and a related database make the edition books of the Salzburg cloth and silk merchant Franz Anton Spängler from the period 1733 to 1785 freely accessible as a web application. This makes edited spending books of 18th-century households available for the first time as an open access publication.

thingTAG ‒ Middle Ages

Head of project Isabella Nicka (Salzburg/Krems)
Contributors Miriam Landkammer (Salzburg/Krems)
Classification Art history
Completed 2022
Website and contact https://www.imareal.sbg.ac.at/imareal-projekte/thingtag/
Funding Lower Austria (state) | Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
Abstract
In the project “thingTAG-Middle Ages” we are developing an interactive app that combines education with a computer game. The game is about finding and annotating (tagging) objects in medieval paintings.

TRAVELOGUES: Perceptions of the Other 1500–1876 – A Computerized Analysis

Head of project Arno Strohmeyer (Salzburg)
Contributors Doris Gruber (Wien); Martin Krickl (Wien); Lijun Lyu (Hannover); Rainer Simon (Wien)
Classification History, Informatics
Completed 2021
Website and contact https://travelogues-project.info/
Funding FWF, DFG
Abstract Barrierefreiheit: Kurzbeschreibung des Bildes
This interdisciplinary and international project focuses on German language travelogues in the collections of the Austrian National Library, covering the period from 1500 to 1876. In order to analyze perceptions of “the other” and “the orient” in a large-scale text corpus, algorithms for the semi-automatized search for, and evaluation of, digitally available texts are being created.