Austrian Academy of Sciences

Digital Research Practices and Publications

Karlheinz Mörth
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Berlin, AGATE Workshop, 13.6.2016

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Austria’s central non-university research and science institution.

Its mission is to “promote science in every way”.
Dedicated to
o innovative basic research,
o interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge,
o the dissemination of new insights with the aim of contributing to progress in
science and society as a whole.
Austrian Academy of Sciences

770 members and 1,450 employees

28 research institutes in the field of innovative basic research in the arts and
humanities and the social and natural sciences
Austrian Academy of Sciences

Life Sciences
CeMM - Research Center for Molecular Medicine
IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology

Mathematics, physics, space research and materials sciences

Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics - RICAM
Institute of High Energy Physics - HEPHY
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information - IQOQI Innsbruck
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information - IQOQI Vienna
Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics - SMI
Acoustics Research Institute - ARI
Space Research Institute - SRI
Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science - ESI
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Archaeology and classical studies

Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture - IKAnt
Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology - OREA
Austrian Archeological Institute - ÖAI

Asian studies and social anthropology

Institute of Iranian Studies - IIS
Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia - IKGA
Institute for Social Anthropology - ISA
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Historical sciences
Institute for Medieval Research - IMAFO
Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research - INZ

Cultural research
Institute of Cultural Studies and Theater History - IKT
Institute of History of Art and Musicology - IKM

Social sciences
Vienna Institute of Demography - VID
Institute for European Tort Law - ETL
Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research - IMR
Institute for Urban and Regional Research - ISR
Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies - CMC
Austrian Academy of Sciences

… and:
Institute of Technology Assessment – ITA
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities – ACDH-OeAW
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Promoting Digital Research

2014: go!digital (5 projects out of 36)

2016: go!digital 2.0
o Up to 15 projects
o Deadline: 15 July 2016
o Scientific digitisation
o In support of data-based and data-driven research in the humanities on a
sustainable basis
o Scientifically innovative research questions on the basis of broad material and
technical know-how
o DARIAH/CLARIN
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Looking back …
2013-08: Contract with Ministry of Science and Research
Early 2014: ACDH Project is started. Planning & Preparation phase for new
structures
Late 2014: Presidium of the Academy decides to found a new institute
2015-1-1: ACDH-OeAW formally starts as the 29th institute of the Academy.
Summer 2015: New colleagues take up their work. Begin of Parthenos, EGI – Engage
…
Late 2015: Relocation is finished. Basic new infrastructures are in place, new WGs
fully functional.
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Structure

Team expansion (2015, ~20 new colleagues)

Current number of staff: 45
4 Working groups + 1 Department
o Networks & Outreach
o Tools, Service, Systems
o Data, Resources and Standards
o eLexicography

o Variation and Change of German in Austria (Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in

Austria)
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Objectives

Supporting the humanities by fostering digital methods by

o building up digital infrastructures

o developing technical tools and services
o hosting and publishing digital data
o intensifying knowledge transfer
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Objectives

Supporting the humanities by fostering digital methods by

o building up digital infrastructures

o developing technical tools and services
o hosting and publishing digital data
o intensifying knowledge transfer
RESEARCH + SERVICE
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Background

Text technology

Corpora + lexical resources

Digital scholarly editing

Data modelling
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‘Our’ Digital Humanities

Technical & social infrastructures

Inter- and transdisciplinarity

Collaborative settings

Open Science: data, access, source (results and data!!!)

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Main areas of operation

Early Modern Digital Humanities

Digital Archaeology & Ancient History
eLexicography

Innovative Tools & Services (“the right toolbox”)

Semantic Technologies (“from data to knowledge”)

Social Infrastructures
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Parthenos

Pooling Activities, Resources

and Tools for Heritage E-
research Networking,
Optimization and Synergies
Horizon 2020
Started in May 2015
Initiative of DARIAH-EU
Participation of CLARIN-
ERIC

http://www.parthenos-project.eu/
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dariahTeach

Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Grant

… is developing open-source, high quality, multilingual
teaching materials for the digital arts and humanities.
January 2015 - June 2017
Five core modules:
o Introduction to Digital Humanities
o Text Encoding
o Multimodal Literacies
o Ontologies & Knowledge Representation
o Retrodigitising Dictionaries
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Stakeholders

e-Infrastructures Austria
o … “establishment and development of repository infrastructures for digital
resources in research and science throughout Austria”

CLARIAH-AT (dha)
o supports innovative digital humanities research,
o promotes cutting edge research projects
o fosters exchange between researchers throughout Austria and abroad
CLARIN + | & DARIAH ???

In Austria, focus on commonalities and synergies between CLARIN

and DARIAH right from the start

CLARIN-AT + DARIAH.A)
(CLARIN. DARIAH-AT CLARIAH-A
CLARIAH-AT = DHA
DHA
http://digital-humanities.at/

Coordinated by the AAS

Bundling of forces: Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities
DH-Infrastructures
CLARIAH-AT

Initial ‘tripartite coalition’

o Austrian Academy of Sciences
o University of Vienna
o Karl Franzens University (Graz)
DH-Infrastructures
CLARIAH-AT

Initial ‘tripartite coalition’

o Austrian Academy of Sciences
o University of Vienna
o Karl Franzens University (Graz)
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Data Centres – Repositories

23 repos in http://service.re3data.org/search?query=&countries[]=aut
2 certified, 6 PIDs, 17 policies

University of Graz: GAMS

University of Vienna: PHAIDRA
OeAW: CLARIN Centre Vienna, EPUB.OEAW
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Getting in touch? / Want to know more?

http://acdh.oeaw.ac.at/acdh
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Getting in touch? / Want to know more?

http://www.oeaw.ac.at/stipendien-
foerderungen/foerderprogramme/godigital/

http://acdh.oeaw.ac.at/acdh
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Karlheinz.Moerth@oeaw.ac.at
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