Completed projects

• Supported by: EU
• Duration: 2021-2023
• Project contact: Bernhard Bauer, bernhard.bauer(at)uni-graz.at
• The project

The project is funded by a H2020-MSCA Individual Fellowship. The central research question relates to the genesis of vernacular early medieval Celtic glosses: Are the glosses originals or translations of original Latin glosses? In order to find an answer(s) to this question, a case study will be carried out on the Celtic and Latin glosses of the manuscript Vienna, Austrian National Library, Codex 15298 (olim Suppl. 2698). The two main objectives of the project are

1. a comprehensive digital edition of the Vienna Beda with all glosses and the main text and
2. an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to analyze early medieval (parallel) glosses, which will include methods of digital humanities, philology and linguistics.

Horizon 2020 Project ReInHerit

Redefining the Future of Cultural Heritage, through a disruptive model of sustainability

The Horizon 2020 project "ReInHerit" has set itself the task of addressing the many challenges facing the European cultural heritage sector - from climate protection and sustainability to issues relating to digitization processes and audience reach (which have become particularly topical with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic) to the lack of communication and inadequate opportunities for exchange between stakeholders in the cultural heritage sector (museums, cultural heritage management and policy, tourism and audiences):The aim is to address and develop solutions for these issues within the cultural heritage sector (museums, cultural heritage management and policy, tourism, audiences).

The aim is to create a sustainable digital network for cultural heritage . The tools and research results developed as part of the project will be presented in a Digital Hub. This Digital Hub will connect cultural heritage institutions and sites across the EU, offer all stakeholders a place for exchange, cooperation and communication and provide useful tools and guidelines (e.g. for educational purposes, for the tourism sector or for the preservation and conservation of cultural heritage).

To achieve this goal, an international team consisting of 12 project partners from 7 EU countries, with the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation as project lead partner, has joined forces. This team also includes the Department of Digital Humanities, which will be responsible for the development of the Digital Hub together with the Department of Geography and Spatial Research .

Key data on the project:

• Project lead: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation - BoCCF (CYP)
• Project partner:
• Arte Sostenible (ESP)
• UNIFI-MICC (ITA)
• ECTN (BEL)
• University of Nicosia - School of Law (CYP)
• Materahub (ITA)
• Museum of Cycladic Art (GRC)
• University of Graz, with the Department of Digital Humanities and Department of Geography and Spatial Research (AT)
• CYENS (CYP)
• BLUE SHIELD (GRC)
• ARCADA (FIN)
• Graz City Museum - GrazMuseum (AT)

• Project management at the University of Graz:

• Ass. Prof. PhD Chiara Zuanni (Department of Digital Humanities)
• Ass. Prof. Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Fischer (Department of Geography and Spatial Research)
• Project duration: March 1, 2021 - February 29, 2024

The Digital Hub

Further information on the project can be found on the project website.

• Supported by: Erasmus+
• Duration: 2018-2021
• Project contact: Chiara Zuanni

The project aims to create a sustainable and efficient educational program dedicated to adult learners with low digital skills and low-skilled adults in the field of creative industries from Romania, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Lithuania, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The ZIM - ACDH has been a partner in the international doctoral program DiXiT since autumn 2013. DiXiT is an international network of public and private research institutions that are fundamentally involved in the creation and publication of digital editions. It is funded by the Marie Curie Actions in the European Commission's 7th Framework Program and runs from September 2013 to August 2017.

The 28 partners from across Europe are researching the impact of digitization on the scholarly edition of historical texts. It aims to provide the next generation of researchers with the necessary basic understanding of the problems and potential of using modern information technologies for the critical documentation and annotated reproduction of texts from various academic disciplines. The program is thus fully in line with the research focus of the ZIM, which can contribute expertise from its various editing projects.

At the heart of the program are doctoral positions located at ten leading institutions in the field of digital editing, which supervise their students in joint courses and in exchange with each other. The doctoral project based at the University of Graz deals with the question of how palaeographic research can also be made possible in the context of digital editions, e.g. in text-image linking tools and in the development of a joint palaeography and editorial model for transcription and manuscript description. In addition, a one-year post-doctoral position will develop a proposal on how established canonical reference systems of texts and digital persistent identifiers can be interwoven. As part of the project, ZIM will also organize a training course on the use of TEI for digital editions and teach units on digital archiving and metadata schemas.

More information can be found on the project page or on the DiXiT Fellows' community blog.

Project contact: Georg Vogeler

The project activities are tailored to specifically meet the target of audience development and professionalization and facilitate the mutual relationship between archives and archivists and the general public across the population stratum. Partial aim behind the project is to offer a barrier-free and easily accessible doorway to the opportunities of the Digital Age in the archival sector and empower the general public to actively make use of these possibilities and thereby take part in creating and exploring shared European history. Furthermore, it is envisioned to encourage sustainable growth of the digital archival landscape, advance the qualification of young professionals by providing material for teaching purposes, sponsored internships for students, various creative competitions for pupils, students and latterly the general public audience and therewith eventually advocate social solidarity. To this end the online archival database Monasterium.net will be enhanced through additional technical and Web 2.0 features in order to meet demands of audiences with special needs as well as actively promote and facilitate community involvement. Additionally, the implementation of innovative approaches towards citizen participation (festival, "Bring your history"-days - Topotheque, MOMathons, MOMschools) will reciprocally engage the public community with the archival world and in the long run create an intertwined, heterogeneous living community.

All activities within this project serve to reach the final goal of reaching out to the general European population and build sustainable bridges between archives and the public community. Ultimately, the development of a manifold audience, historical awareness on a European level, voluntary corporate citizenship, and openings for life-long-learning and intercultural dialogue will be encouraged. The fusing of these addressed parties by the means of this project's integral activities will elucidate and detail our shared European history and energize international understanding.

The Department of Digital Humanities is engaged in this project with activities in the field of legal issues and software development.

Contact: Georg Vogeler(georg.vogeler(at)uni-graz.at) and Walter Scholger(walter.scholger(at)uni-graz.at)

• In cooperation with the Regensburg City Archive
• Duration: 2011 -2013
• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

For the final project of the first EuroMACHS year, the Regensburg City Archives were won as a partner. The holdings of the Regensburg coat of arms and portrait books located there were made accessible as a web representation and simultaneously archived for the long term. One of the 12 volumes could be realized as a digital edition, the remaining collection is available as facsimile.

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• Funded by: fwf (I 3614 International Projects), ANR
• Duration: 2018-2021
• Project contact: Helmut W. Klug

Culinary tradition is one of the most formative elements of European culture and represents a large part of national identities. The Middle Ages and the recipes written down during this period can be regarded as the cradle of modern European cuisine. The present project aims to realize the intercultural research of medieval recipes and their interrelation by means of an interdisciplinary approach. The project takes the recipe tradition of France and the German-speaking countries, which comprises more than 80 manuscripts and around 8000 recipes, and examines them in terms of their origin, their relationship with each other and their migration through Europe. The partners, the Laboratoire CESR (Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance) of the University of Tours, the Department of Digital Humanities and the Department of Germanic Medieval Studies at the University of Graz, will process these multilingual texts according to modern standards and examine them using current quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Details can be found in the project proposal approved by the ANR.

• Supported by: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Wheaton College Massachusetts
• Duration: 2017-2023
• Project contact: Christopher Pollin

Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and coordinated by Wheaton College Massachusetts, DEPCHA is a cooperation between the Department of Digital Humanities and partners from the USA for the semantic enrichment of digital editions of historical account books, which are to be made accessible to a broad specialist audience. Data - from different formats - are to be brought together on a common platform and open up adequate forms of retrieval, discovery and visualization to facilitate work with the sources. The transfer to RDF on the basis of the bookkeeping ontology, which formalizes the transfer processes of historical account books, allows the interoperability, linking and merging of information in the sense of Linked Open Data.

• Supported by: Roehampton University and British Academy
• Duration: 2018-2019
• Project contact: Georg Vogeler and Jakob Sonnberger

Hearth Tax Digital is a platform for the publication of data from the English hearth taxes from the end of the 17th century. These hearth taxes were levied in England and Wales between 1662 and 1689 and provide unparalleled documentation of population and wealth distribution during a key period in English history. The Hearth Tax Digital project is the result of a collaboration with the Centre for Hearth Tax Research (University of Roehampton, UK) and is funded by the British Academy.

• Supported by: Getty Foundation
• Duration: 2018-2019
• Project contact: Chiara Zuanni

This project aims to explore new applications of digital methods in digital art history with a focus on the spatial narratives of objects. By using classical art as a case study and focusing on the themes of "geographies, provenance and visualization", the project explores how Linked Open Data can further advance digital art history research.

• Funded by: Digital Humanities Award of the National Endowment for the Humanities and German Research Foundation
• Project contact: Georg Vogeler

Funded by the Digital Humanities Award of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the German Research Foundation, MEDEA is a cooperation between the ZIM and partners from the USA for the semantic enrichment of digital editions of historical account books, which are to be made accessible to a broad specialist audience. Data - from different formats - are to be brought together on a common platform and offer adequate forms of retrieval, discovery and visualization to facilitate work with the materials. The transfer to RDF based on the bookkeeping ontology, which formalizes the transfer processes of historical account books, enables the interoperability, linking and consolidation of information.

• In cooperation with the Department of History at the University of Basel
• Duration: 2016
• Project contact: Christopher Pollin

The digital edition of Basel's Urfehdebuch X comprises the city of Basel's Urfehde entries from the years 1563 to 1569. The Urfehde describes a means of medieval law and means the sworn renunciation of feud. In collaboration with the Department of History at the University of Basel, a source corpus encoded in TEI was created that offers specific options for evaluation via a search function based on an RDF data model, indexing using various relevant categories and a "data basket" that allows the selection of individual primal feuds.

• In cooperation with the Seminar for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Basel
• Duration: 2014-2016
• Project contact: Martina Scholger, Johannes Stigler

Sarajevo, Istanbul, Belgrade, Ankara: four cities in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Turkey that were once part of the Ottoman Empire. The project examines the social, cultural, political and urban developments of these four cities through the lens of local press photographers employed by major daily newspapers such as "Politika" and "Cumhuriyet" as a result of the visual revolution in the region triggered by the Balkan Wars and the First World War.

The material expands the online portal "Visual Archive Southeastern Europe", which collects historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe. The project is being developed in cooperation with the Seminar for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Basel and is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

• In cooperation with the Department of History at the University of Basel
• Duration: 2013-2016
• Project contact: Georg Vogeler

Prof. Susanna Burghartz is working on the edition of the Basel annual accounts of the 16th century, a particularly rich source for the social and economic history of the city of Basel. Building on Georg Vogeler's preliminary work on the digital edition of invoices, a semantically enriched transcription is being produced as part of the collaborative project. It will be hosted in the GAMS infrastructure project and enhanced with functionalities that make the invoices processable both as texts and as numerically analyzable entries.

• In cooperation with the Universities of Graz and Basel
• Duration: 2011 -2016
• Project contact: Martina Scholger

The main aim of the Visual Archive of Southeastern European History and Anthropology of the Department of History is to collect historical and contemporary visual material on Southeastern Europe. VASE aims to draw attention to the visual as a primary source, to enhance visual studies as a technique and method, and thus to enrich primarily text-based historical-anthropological research. By providing various forms of images - such as photographs, postcards and maps - VASE also aims to critically reflect on the (self-) images of Southeastern Europe both in the academic community and in society at large.

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• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

As a sub-project of"Kulturerbe Digital", the work manuscripts and photo collections from the Hugo Schuchardt estate were digitized and published as the last outstanding parts. The manuscripts from Hugo Schuchardt's estate, which are held in the special collections of Graz University Library, comprise a large amount of diverse material. This material includes handwritten and printed documents such as notebooks, notes, galley proofs, drafts, photographs and newspaper cuttings. The collections mainly contain photographs (some taken by Hugo Schuchardt himself on his travels) and some postcards. The metadata is delivered to Kulturpool.at and Europeana.eu.

To the Hugo Schuchardt Archive

• Funded by: Internal project/university space structure funds
• Duration: 2015-2016
• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

In 2014, the texts of the founding charter of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and imperial and papal confirmations as well as descriptions of the insignia of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz were published in book form. The main contents of the publication were converted into a digital form of presentation and, in addition to an independent presentation, are also included in the "Repository of Styrian Scientific Heritage" portal.

• Funded by: Internal project/university space structure funds
• Duration: 2010-2016
• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

The Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz keeps a collection of copies of Latin and Greek inscriptions. These were photographed and digitally processed at the Graz University Library's Digitization Centre and the inscriptions depicted on them were transcribed, translated and annotated in detail by specialist scholars. The ZIM manages and archives both the digital copies and the indexing data so that the collection is available for research and teaching purposes.

• Duration: 2016-2017
• Project contact: Helmut Klug

Paolo Santonino and a group of travelers led by the Bishop of Udine travelled through East Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola and the former Mark an der Sann in three journeys. Santonino describes these journeys, which took place in the years 1485-87, the landscape and the people in minute detail and lists, among other things, the names of the diners and the individual courses for each meal that was served. The project makes the first two voyages available as an electronic resource.

• Supported by: Internal project
• Duration: 2018-2019
• Project contact: Sanja Saric

The subject of the project "War and Media Change" is print media that have the Schmalkaldic War (1546-1547) or the First French Religious War (1562-1563) as a common subject of speech and speaking time. On these two events, Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Gabriele Haug-Moritz has examined the bibliographic resources available digitally and in print for these two events and has also compiled a data collection of 551 prints for the Schmalkaldic War and 527 for the First French War of Religion. As part of the project, a TEI model and a web view of this data will be created.

• Supported by: Province of Styria
• Duration: 2017-2019
• Project contact: Helmut W. Klug

Regional nutrition, sustainable lifestyles and health prevention are of great importance for Styrians in the 21st century. However, this was also the case in the Middle Ages and early modern times: This topic not only played a central role in everyday historical life, but also in the specialist literature of the time. An impressive example of this is the manuscript Ms. 1609 from the Graz University Library from the late 15th century. In the 'Medieval Laboratory' project, precisely these topics are being investigated on the basis of Germanic-medievalist and digital humanities (digital edition) and scientific communication methods. Based on the contents of the late medieval manuscript, four course modules have been developed to impart knowledge and practical application in a way that is suitable for laypeople: Nutrition, Medicine, Sustainability, Mentality. These courses form a further hands-on laboratory for the humanities as part of the Open Laboratory at the University of Graz.

• Supported by: Faculty of Humanities of the University of Graz
• Duration: 2018-2019
• Project contact: Sean Winslow, Gerlinde Schneider

The aim of this FWF-funded project is to develop a database for the identification, cataloging and dating of Ethiopian bookbinding tools and binding decorations. The Madgwas database is intended to be an expandable resource that uses semantic technologies to establish and visualize relationships between a large number of tools and decorative patterns as well as individual manuscripts. Researchers should thus be able to classify the manuscripts chronologically. The project will take advantage of the increasing provision of digital facsimiles by international libraries via the interfaces of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), which, in addition to the use of an RDF data model and a triple store for data storage, will enable links to domain-specific web ontologies as well as other projects in Ethiopian studies or codicology.

• Funded by: FWF
• Duration: 2019 - 2020
• Project contact: Helmut Klug

In the planned project , aspects of medieval cuisine and methods of digital humanities are to be prepared for a predominantly young, less university-affine target group. These people, who do not belong to the primary target group of science communication, are to be introduced to the work of scientists at a university and individual contents of the humanities. With such a target audience, the direct communication of research is not the right approach. Therefore, science is combined with a thematically unrelated everyday topic that is still controversial in society in order to reach the target group through this approach. The main product planned for the project is a series-like sequence of video clips in the style of a docu-soap ("Science Ink") with a tattoo studio as the setting. In this environment, the tattoo artist and the scientist talk about their work. In the production of the film clips, special interests of the target group, current video and YouTube trends, explanatory video methods and aspects of science communication are combined; science flows into the conversation via "inserts" in which other locations (e.g. office, classroom, kitchen) are introduced. In this framework story, scientific content on medieval nutrition, cooking instructions for historical dishes and research approaches of the digital humanities and, of course, information on tattooing are conveyed.

• Funded by: ÖAW | go!digital Next Generation
• Duration: 2019 - 2021
• Project contact: Sebastian Stoff

NAMPI will create a semantic RDF database supported by the factoid model ontology developed by Pasin & Bradley, which, together with additional content-oriented ontologies, will provide an accurate representation of the lives of early modern nuns and monks. This data will be made available to researchers and reused by other projects through a modern and well-documented REST API and a website based on the API.

• Duration: since 2016
• Project contact: Georg Vogeler

Hermann Grotefend (1845-1931) created a standard work for the resolution of historical dates with his "Zeitrechnung des deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit". At the beginning of the 21st century, Dr. Horst Ruth retro-digitized this work with the index of saints and the calendars. This retro-digitization serves as the basis for this project, with the aim of modeling the data for the Semantic Web as Linked Open Data. RDF helps to prepare this information in such a way that it can be exchanged between systems while retaining its original meaning. Content statements are expressed via 'triples', for which the use of Linked Open Data vocabularies is preferred. The database can also be easily expanded to include the RDF representation of historically documented calendars. In addition, SPARQL is a query language that offers more potential than conventional full-text searches.

• Funded by: FWF, Open Research Data
• Duration: 2017-2019
• Project contact: Georg Vogeler

The project is a continuation of the FWF project "Illuminated Charters as a Gesamtkunstwerk" (P 26.706), which ended in 2017. The collection of illuminated documents created there on the world's largest document platform "monasterium.net" is being transferred to a long-term archiving strategy as part of the FWF's Open Science Data project (ORD84). The project is now ensuring that the data on the illuminated documents is backed up in the trustworthy repository GAMS, which was developed by the Department of Digital Humanities and is geared towards long-term archiving.

• Supported by: Internal project
• Duration: 2019-2021
• Project contact: Jakob Sonnberger

The digital edition of transcripts of England's last public mass oath-taking was created as part of a master's thesis.

• Funded by: ÖAW (go!digital Next Generation)
• Duration: 06-2019 until 06-2021
• Project contact: Martina Bürgermeister

Graz grew enormously over the course of the long 19th century (1789-1914). The project, which is being implemented together with the GrazMuseum and the Graz City Archives, deals with the development of the city of Graz during this period. With the help of a geographic information system (GIS), the changes in the city, the process of urbanization and the perception of it over the course of time will be analysed. City maps of Graz are combined with descriptions (e.g. from travel guides) and pictorial sources (e.g. postcards) from the 19th century with the current state of research. In this way, the "BeUrb" project provides a basis for the analysis of urban development in a period that can be strongly characterized by radical and rapid change.

The GIS is a tool for identifying places and structures that have significantly influenced urban development in the past and continue to do so today. The project therefore not only provides an insight into and overview of historical developments and events, but also creates a better understanding of Graz as we know it today. In addition to the benefits and added value of the project for research and teaching, the web-based project content will also be available for private and tourist use.

The ZIM-ACDH institute is responsible for the data modeling of the primary sources, the technical implementation of the GIS and the web presentation.

• Funded by: ÖAW (go!digital Next Generation)
• Duration: 2019-2021
• Project contact: Martina Scholger

The journalistic genre of the Spectators (moral weeklies) of the 18th century represents an important world cultural heritage from the Age of Enlightenment. The journals corresponded to the democratic ideal of disseminating cultural and moral issues in non-academic circles and popularizing Enlightenment values such as cosmopolitanism, tolerance, intellectual criticism, self-reflection and social responsibility. Based on the existing text corpus of the digital edition of the Spectators, this cooperation between the Department for Interactive Systems and Data Science at Graz University of Technology, the Know-Center Graz, the Department of Digital Humanities and the Department for Romance Studies at the University of Graz aims to examine this multilingual corpus using computer-aided methods of quantitative text analysis. This will provide insights into the shifting of topics over time and geographical distance, as well as stylistic features, which will subsequently enable the formulation of statements about trends and zeitgeist in the periodicals of the 18th century. An important focus is on the transnational transfer and development of this literary genre, taking into account geographical, cultural and temporal characteristics.

About the project

• Funded by: FWF
• Duration: 2019-2022
• Project contact: Helmut Klug

The aim is to annotate and publish the 24 radio plays, the play and the film script of this aesthetically highly reflexive author. Volume IV of the edition will contain the primary texts and the commentaries. The commentary will also be published online. In this way, this important aesthetic position within Austrian literature will be made visible in the entire spectrum of its writing styles and a hybrid edition will be offered that is characterized by practicability, manageability and a high user factor, thus satisfying not only the needs of literary studies but also those of an interested readership. A further aim is to explore the possibilities of the Internet as a medium for the publication of scholarly editions of radio plays. In addition, work is being done on a research platform to explore intermedial phenomena.

About the project

• In cooperation with the Department for Linguistics
• Funded by: FWF
• Duration: 2021-2023
• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

The project Philingk: Networked Knowledge on the Subject History of (Romance) Philology and Linguistics is a cooperation between the Department of Digital Humanities of the University of Graz, the Department of Linguistics of the University of Graz and the Romance Department of the University of Zurich. It deals with the correspondence between Gaston Paris and Hugo Schuchardt (185 letters) and its significance in the history of (Romance) philology and linguistics. The two correspondents, although almost the same age and academically socialized in comparable contexts, took very different paths and engaged in an extremely fruitful epistolary discourse until Paris' death. The correspondence will be edited both analog and digitally (hybrid edition), integrated into the existing digital Hugo Schuchardt Archive, annotated and indexed, and integrated into the CorrespSearch aggregation server of the BBAW (Berlin). The aim is to virtually represent this central component of a discourse network that existed in the later 19th century, to make it publicly accessible (open access) and to make it available for new research questions.

• In cooperation with the Department of History
• Funded by: FWF
• Duration: 2018-2021
• Project contact: Roman Bleier

The project completes the edition project "Reichstagsakten: Imperial Assemblies, 1556-1662", which was initiated by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Since 1988, this undertaking has been supervising the edition of historical sources relating to eleven imperial assemblies, which have been published in 15 partial volumes. The aim of the current project is to electronically index the records of the Regensburg Imperial Diet of 1576, enrich them with metadata and make the research data accessible in the form of a digital edition. The tagging and descriptive enrichment of the transcriptions with XML/TEI not only guarantees the long-term availability of the research data, but also enables links to structured resources based on RDF and ontologies as well as the export of highly structured data.

• in cooperation with Adalbert-Stifter-Institut des Landes Oberösterreich, Kunstuniversität Graz, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Technische Universität Graz, Universität Innsbruck, Universität Klagenfurt, Universität Salzburg, Universität Wien
• Duration: 2017-2019
• Project contact: Helmut Klug

The Higher Education Area Structural Funds project aims to establish a research infrastructure in the field of digital humanities. Under the leadership of the Center, the competencies of the top-class partner institutions are bundled into a content-related and strategic concept for the establishment of a national, digital infrastructure for edition projects in order to meet the changing requirements of modern, digitally supported research.

In addition to the continuation of digitization initiatives and developments in the field of digital data management at the individual partners, the "Repository Styrian Scientific Heritage" project, which was financed from higher education structural funds, also aimed to create a joint web platform. Here, the holdings of all partner institutions are made jointly accessible and searchable. In addition to the digitization and new publications financed directly from higher education area structural funds, the holdings of the partner institutions, as well as those of the Graz-Seckau Diocesan Archives and the Styrian Provincial Archives, which are already available in digital form, will also be jointly represented. The holdings consist of a wide variety of source types, from manuscripts, photographs or museum objects to archival records. As of its publication in March 2017, the platform has more than 27,000 entries.

The portal also offers descriptions of the collections and accompanying texts on the objects.

In addition to highly structured search access, there is also the option of a virtual tour through selected collections. These curated tours enable a playful engagement with the objects and a "virtual stroll".

In the course of the project, the underlying GAMS infrastructure was expanded. It can now also act as a data aggregator and generate objects in the repository from OAI-PMH-compliant data records. In addition, mechanisms for data enrichment and quality control have been developed.

Further information on the major challenge of metadata management and details on the technical implementation are available on the website.

• Funded by: Center for Cultural Studies
• Duration: 2021
• Project contact: Martina Scholger

The digital anthology "Twilight Zones" provides a new text compilation of "liminal texts" and their analysis through a comprehensive category system that offers innovative insights into the long period of the turn of the century in France, Austria and Germany. The project was implemented in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Studies, the Department of Sociology and the Department of Digital Humanities.

• Supported by: Zukunftsfonds Steiermark / Republic of Austria
• Duration: 2019 - 2021
• Project contact: Sebastian Stoff

The project, initiated under the direction of the Center for Jewish Studies with cooperation partners (Center for Information Modeling, Didactics of History and _erinnern.at_), pursues the goal of georeferenced indexing of places of remembrance of the terror and victims of National Socialism, initially for the territory of Styria, but in the future for the whole of Austria. The aim is to go beyond a mere online documentation of the places of remembrance manifested by signs and to develop new forms of presentation and new perspectives of digitally mediated remembrance education in an interdisciplinary team.

• in cooperation with the Literature Archive of the University of Salzburg
• Duration: 2017-2021
• Project contact: Christopher Pollin

The aim of the project is to bring together Stefan Zweig's estate, which is scattered around the world, in the digital space and to make it accessible to an audience interested in literary studies and academia. In cooperation with the Literature Archive of the University of Salzburg, a digital reconstruction of the estate will be generated based on the source material available there. The result is a structured collection of digital objects that is represented in terms of digital long-term archiving and is accessible to users regardless of time and place. The project is designed in such a way that it will be possible to index and enrich the source material (e.g. digital editions) at a later date.

• In cooperation with the Department of Classical Philology
• Funded by: bmwfw - Sparkling Science funding series
• Duration: 2017-2019
• Project contact: Sarah Lang

The "Graz Repository of Ancient Fables" (GRaF) is a Sparkling Science project that is developing a scientific school edition of ancient fables with the active participation of school classes, which will be made available as a digital edition on GAMS. In addition to didactic preparation, the possibilities and specifics of the medium of the "digital school edition" are also being researched.
The aim of the project is to develop the web portal (GRaF), i.e. the digital edition of a selection of fables (Phaedrus; selection from Avian) including a text-critical apparatus, which is designed with vocabulary information, translation, factual explanations and parallel texts combined with collections of materials for lesson design, taking into account the interests of the learners.

• Funded by: FWF
• Duration: 2019 - 2020
• Project contact: Hans Clausen

In cooperation with the Franz Nabl Institute, this project is developing a digital edition of Horváth's dram as. In addition to the edition of the drama texts themselves, their quantitative research and presentation, including in the form of figure networks, is at the center of the editorial work.

• In cooperation with the Department of Romance Studies
• Funded by: FWF, Open Research Data
• Duration: 2017-2020
• Project contact: Gerlinde Schneider and Christopher Pollin

The project aims to provide open access to a series of corpora compiled by the "Research Group on the Interfaces of Adjective and Adverb in Romance" at the University of Graz. The collected corpora will be updated for this purpose and integrated into a general database. In order to ensure maximum continuity and compatibility, the database will follow several relevant standards defined and promoted by the European Research Infrastructure Consortium for Language Resources CLARIN ERIC2. The following aspects are crucial for the project: open access, adaptation to international standards, development of standards for adjective-adverb tagging and the linking of the data with other language resources via Linked Data.

• Funded by: BMWF, Sparkling Science
• Duration: 2017-2019
• Project contact: Gerlinde Schneider

In its third term, this project is dedicated to researching the prerequisites and dimensions of literary learning using medieval texts. The focus of the cooperation with the Department of German Studies is on the further development of the "Graz didactic text portal on medieval literature", which was created in previous projects. The portal makes the texts of the Styrian Literature Trails available as facsimiles as well as in transcription and translation and also offers tried-and-tested materials for different school levels and types, developed together with teachers, pupils and students. The (literary) world of the Middle Ages is thus made accessible as a (non-)educational and digital place of learning.

• Funded by: go!digital 2.0, ÖAW
• Duration: 2017-2019
• Project contact: Martina Bürgermeister and Georg Vogeler

The cooperation project with the Austrian Academy of Sciences follows on from the previous project of the same name and aims to enrich the corpus of "Illuminated Charters" made publicly accessible on the monasterium.net platform with personal history and art history data and make it researchable via complex search queries.

• In cooperation with the University of Salzburg
• Funded by: FWF
• Duration: 2017-2019
• Project contact: Carina Koch and Georg Vogeler

The FWF-funded project on the mediality of diplomatic communication examines the correspondence between Habsburg envoys in Constantinople and the imperial court in Vienna. The main sources are letters by the diplomat Johann Rudolf Schmid zum Schwarzenhorn (1590-1667), including the correspondence of other residents in Constantinople, and the travel diary of Johann Georg Metzger († 1697), which contains not only daily events but also natural history and ethnographic information, as well as maps and sketches. The text sources are digitally edited and compared and analyzed using digital tools. Rules of correspondence, individual representations and the relationship between author and recipient are a focal point for the examination of the letters. Personal impressions and descriptions of events will also be examined more closely in the previously unpublished travelogue. The Department is developing the necessary data model and visualization options.

• In cooperation with the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna
• Duration: 2017-2018
• Project contact: Helmut Klug

Since 2015, a commentary on the individual prose works of this important Austrian satirist (1947-2011) has been compiled at the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna as part of the FWF project "Kommentierte Werkausgabe Werner Kofler (Prosa)" (P 27418). This commentary forms the basis of the present publication project. The digital commentary is part of a hybrid edition in which the primary text is published in book form. The commentary includes annotated archive and image material, which is made accessible via indices as well as spatial and temporal visualization.

• In cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Duration: 2015-2019
• Project contact: Christian Steiner, Johannes Stigler

The ecclesiastical province of Salzburg with its suffragan dioceses of Brixen, Freising, Passau, Regensburg and Salzburg played a decisive role in the cultural-historical development of Austria and Bavaria over many centuries. This makes it all the more important to make the numerous preserved liturgical-musical sources, which are an important part of this cultural-historical heritage, accessible in digital form and to evaluate them scientifically. In the academic study of Libri Ordinarii, the critical translation of the Latin texts must be followed by a well-founded analysis of the origins of the liturgy and the commentaries. The primary task of the project will be to transform the Ordinarii into TEI. In a second focus, the secondary sources, i.e. the liturgical and liturgical-musical sources such as graduals, missals, sequentiaries, antiphonaries, etc., are to be indexed and prepared for implementation in the web platform, so that behind the incipits of the Libri ordinarii the concrete forms, e.g. of a chant, are also available in complete form and with musical notation.

• Funded by: FWF, Higher Education Area Structural Funds
• Duration: 2017-2020
• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

The project evaluates all Celtic god names preserved on inscriptions in the Roman province of Germania Inferior. This should lead to fundamental insights into the development and manifestations of the so-called Gallo-Roman provincial religion. It will also make an important contribution to the study of the processes commonly referred to as Romanization. In addition to a print edition, an online corpus of the inscriptions will also be created, which will be implemented by the ZIM.

• in cooperation with the Department of Slavic Studies
• Duration: 2016-2018
• Project contact: Carina Koch

The aim of the project is to create a virtual collection of postcards from Lower Styria (today's Slovenian Štajerska) from the period from 1885 to 1920, focusing on the bilingual nature of this historical region, which was increasingly characterized by nationality conflicts during this period. The electronic resource is intended to make the material searchable according to content and linguistic criteria and thus contribute to research into the shared history of the area inhabited by Slovenes and Germans. To this end, a data model, disseminators and various visualization options are being developed at the center.

• In cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Duration: 2014-2017
• Project contact: Georg Vogeler and Martina Bürgermeister

The FWF project P 26.706 has set itself the goal of collecting illuminated medieval documents, making them available on the monasterium.net platform and examining them comprehensively. It has a pan-European focus, is deliberately interdisciplinary and sees the use of information technology as a central part of the project.

Material acquisition, cataloging and scientific evaluation are seen as a unit. State-of-the-art web-based technologies, traditional documentary and cultural-scientific interpretative approaches jointly enable new findings and provide material for further studies.

• In cooperation with the Department of Romance Studies
• Duration: 2010 - 2017
• Project contact: Martina Scholger

The journalistic genre of the "Spectators" or moral weeklies, which began in England at the beginning of the 18th century, soon spread throughout Europe before becoming an important indicator of the discourse system of the Enlightenment. The content of the moral weeklies was primarily aimed at a broad urban readership. These writings were intended to disseminate the ideas and values of the Enlightenment in an entertaining way. As such, they were also instrumental in shaping public opinion. This edition project aims to create a central collection of all European moral weeklies. Currently, representations and analyses of Spanish, Italian, French, German and English texts are available. Numerous perspectives of the levels of representation and narrative forms are made visible.

• In cooperation with TU, KUG, GrazMuseum, Province of Styria, Diocesan Archive Graz-Seckau
• Duration: 2014-2017
• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

The web portal that emerged from the HRSM project"Repository of Styrian Scientific Heritage" provides all interested parties with access to digitally recorded cultural heritage that is stored and researched at various locations in Styria. The more than 25,000 digitally available resources can be searched and filtered according to various criteria. At the same time, virtual tours offer the opportunity to engage with the objects in a playful way and take a virtual stroll through the collections. Descriptions of the partner institutions and background information on the project round off the presentation.

• In cooperation with the university museums
• Duration: 2014-2017
• Project contact: Carina Koch, Elisabeth Steiner

The collection established by Hans Gross in 1895 - consisting of "corpora deliciti" - was founded as the "Criminal Museum at the Provincial Court for Criminal Matters" in Graz and moved to the Karl-Franzens University of Graz in 1913, where it has been one of the holdings of the university museums since the creation of the "inter-faculty service area University Museums of the Karl-Franzens University of Graz". As part of the HRSM project "Repository of Styrian Scientific Heritage", the objects of the Hans Gross Crime Museum were inventoried, digitally recorded and displayed for the first time according to the latest museological standards.

• In cooperation with the GrazMuseum
• Duration: 2014-2017
• Project contact: Carina Koch

As part of the cooperation project "Repository of Styrian Scientific Heritage", the postcard collection of the GrazMuseum will be put online. The inventory of the postcards has already been prepared with the Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna (2012-2014). Content-related and methodological questions were developed together with specialist scholars, with the aim of taking into account the specific characteristics of the hybrid media type "postcard" in the interplay of image and text. The digital processing of the postcard collection offers different approaches to the collection and makes unique sources of Graz's city history accessible to the general public.

• Funded by: Internal project/university space structure funds
• In cooperation with the Department of Archaeology
• Duration: 2011 - 2016
• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

The original and cast collection of the Department of Archaeology was founded in 1865 and is open to the public on the 2nd floor of the main building of the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. As part of the "Repository of Styrian Scientific Heritage", the data of the original collection, which was already available online, was fundamentally revised and supplemented by a virtual tour.

• In cooperation with the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research
• Duration: 2016
• Project contact: Hans Clausen

Ödön von Horváth is one of the most highly regarded German-language authors of the 20th century. The project page Ödön von Horvath: Historical-Critical Edition - Digital Edition summarizes the editorial efforts made for his work. It provides an insight into the methodology of the historical-critical book edition and also offers a digital edition of Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald (1931) as a prelude to the digitization of his complete dramatic oeuvre. A particular focus of this digital edition is the use of visualization techniques (network graphs) as a new analytical tool in the digital humanities.

• In cooperation with the Department of German Studies
• Duration: 2013-2016 (Cooperation ZIM: 2015)
• Project contact: Hans Clausen

The project "Dialect Cultures II - Database Launch, Editions and Aesthetics" (FWF project number: P 25573-G23) in cooperation with the Department of German Studies (Christian Neuhuber, Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr) aimed to digitally index and manage the wealth of Bavarian-Austrian dialect art developed in the previous project "Dialect Cultures I" with the help of the digital repository GAMS in the sense of long-term archiving and to make it accessible to a broad public by creating a project website.
To this end, the data already recorded in the XML standard (DI Alexander Nussbaumer) was transferred to the humanities data standard TEI and created as virtual objects in GAMS. As the individual resources were linked to each other by means of hyperlinks and RDF statements, the project website offers the user not only a search function but also networked access to the entire corpus of Bavarian-Austrian dialect art.

• In cooperation with the Department of Romance Studies
• Duration: 2010-2016
• Project contact: Gerlinde Schneider and Elisabeth Steiner

As a continuation of the FWF project "Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe" of the Department of Romance Studies, a TEI-based, morphosyntactically annotated text corpus is being built up here under the project management of Martin Hummel and fed into a web representation via innovative data structures and frameworks for which the Center is responsible.

• In cooperation with the Department of History
• Duration: 2012 - 2015
• Project contact: Gunter Vasold

In this cooperation project with the Department of History at the University of Graz and the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (funded by the FWF and DFG), the aim is to systematically record and index subject supplications in the form of a database and thus to investigate a hitherto little-noticed component of the political order of the Old Kingdom. The resulting database will be made available on the Internet for secondary analyses. In the first stage of the project, ZIMig designed a complex database in consultation with the scholars and programmed a REST-based web interface for data collection and processing.

• In cooperation with the Department of Folklore and the Department of History
• Duration: 2014-2015
• Project contact: Christian Steiner

The Virtual Museum of the University of Graz is the final project of the 2012-2014 EuroMACHS (Europe, Media, Arts and Cultural Heritage Studies) Master's program. The aim of the project was to develop an expandable virtual museum for the collections of the University of Graz, which are scattered throughout the departments. For the time being, two collections from the university's holdings were used as examples: The Meringer Collection of the Department of Folklore and Cultural Anthropology and the Seal Collection of the Department of History of the University of Graz.

• In cooperation with the Department of German Studies
• Duration: 2013-2014
• Project contact: Gerlinde Schneider

As part of this project, a freely accessible, virtual didactic environment is being created to make it easier for teachers to deal with the topic of medieval literature in the classroom. The portal provides the texts of the Styrian Literary Paths as facsimiles as well as transcriptions and translations and also offers tried-and-tested materials for different school levels and types, developed together with teachers, pupils and students. The (literary) world of the Styrian Middle Ages is thus made accessible as a (non-)educational and digital place of learning.

• In cooperation with the Department of Philosophy
• Duration: 2012-2015
• Project contact: Elisabeth Steiner

The aim of this project of the Franz Brentano Archive Graz (funded by the Franz Brentano Foundation Boston) is to make the entire estate of the German-Austrian philosopher Franz Brentano (1838-1917) accessible to the scientific public in the form of digital facsimiles of his philosophical manuscripts and correspondence. This digital archive will subsequently be expanded into a text-critical online edition based on the TEI guidelines.

• In cooperation with the Department of Romance Studies
• Duration: 2012 - 2013

In this project of the Department of Romance Studies, texts that pose the question of the relationship between art and reality, which has always been constitutive in aesthetics and poetics, are systematically organized and analytically prepared for the first time. On the one hand, the collection of texts functions as an anthology and covers various genres from the 18th to the 21st century. On the other hand, a system of text analysis developed for the project, which is based on categories of different orders, selected key passages and an index, enables several approaches to the texts.

• In cooperation with the Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies
• Duration: 2010 - 2013

The Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies at the University of Graz is the only comparable Austrian department with an extensive collection, including a respectable coin collection comprising almost 4000 ancient coins. The collection ranges from Classical Greece to significant holdings of Hellenistic and Celtic coins and objects from the Migration Period and Byzantine times. The majority of the collection consists of coins from the Roman period, and the digital processing of the collection presents all numismatically relevant data as well as accessible archival information, including images, for each coin as part of the "Ancient History Online Portal".

• In cooperation with the Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies
• Duration: 2009 - 2012

Several projects of the Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies are condensed here into an online portal of ancient history: "Violence in Ancient Societies", "Between Hellenic Consciousness and Polis Membership", "Spectatores", the "Numismatic Collection" and the "Epigraphic Collection" are already accessible, and work is currently underway to complete the "Prosophography of Ancient Hetaera".

• In cooperation with the Department of Theoretical and Applied Translation Studies
• Duration: 2009 - 2012

As part of a longitudinal study, this project investigates the development of translation skills in a process-oriented manner. GAMS supports researchers in this (FWF) project in the management and analysis of multimodal, qualitative data.

• In cooperation with the Department of German Studies
• Duration: 2010 - 2011

"Hugo von Montfort - the poetic work" is a hybrid edition that explores how a poetic work of the Middle Ages can be represented in its multimedia form. The text can be received in the following forms: Reading version, eye version, audio version, melody version. The accompanying internet platform for the new edition can be accessed here. The eye version realized here is based on a graphetically detailed basic transliteration and combines the transcription with images of the manuscript.

• In cooperation with the Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies
• Duration: 2010 - 2012

What effects did ethnicity have on alliance politics and the formation of stereotypes? Was it used for propaganda or rhetoric? As a basis for this research project, the FWF-funded project is creating an annotated collection of sources in the original language and in translation, which can also be used by other academic disciplines. The implementation of this collection in an XML-based system enables digital publication (incl. unique addressing of each individual quotation), sustainable archiving (content is available in different contexts) and interchangeability, as well as the indexing of the content independently of the project's research question in connection with other collections (see "gewalt").

• In cooperation with the Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies
• Duration: 2009 - 2011

The collection of sources on the subject of "Violence in Antiquity" is being compiled by staff at the Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies in collaboration with scholars from other research institutions. Texts and other surviving sources (images, sculptures, etc.) from antiquity that are relevant in this context are being collected, described and indexed, and the tried and tested workflow (Word document → TEI document → web publication) is proving to be particularly optimal in this project. The collection and description of sources can be carried out from any location; the collection is edited and compiled in Graz. In this way, a digital, categorized and publicly accessible collection can be successively created, the content of which is also available for other purposes (printed work, interchangeability with other collections - see "ethnos", etc.).

• In cooperation with the Department of History
• Duration: 2010-2011

The course is aimed at students on the BA History course and, of course, anyone else at KFU who is interested. The selection of texts is deliberately aimed at this target group. The structure of the learning portal corresponds to the structure of the BA and MA programs in History. The further expansion of the offer for students of the MA program is planned, but will depend on the available personnel and financial resources.

• In cooperation with the Department of Art History
• Duration: 2009-2011

GINKO is the official online image database of the Department of Art History at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz. The collection is intended as a supplementary online resource for image research for art history research and teaching. Both solitary image collections (only available at the Graz Department) and individually requested, digitized image materials - not available in the recommended databases - are made available. Both the project-related image collections and the general "image pool" are continuously expanded in the context of research and teaching.

• In cooperation with the Academy for New Media and Knowledge Transfer
• Duration: 2009-2011

Here you will find a collection of podcasts on various topics from research and teaching at the University of Graz. The aim of this offer is to use new media technologies to promote the communication of scientific content in an up-to-date and appealing way. The podcast portal of the University of Graz is a joint project of the Vice-Rectorate for Studies and Teaching, the Center for Information Modeling in the Humanities and the Academy for New Media and Knowledge Transfer.

• In cooperation with the Center for the History of Science
• Duration: 2011

Online edition of letters from 1790 to the end of 1819. The orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall was one of the central figures of systematic-scientific oriental studies and corresponded with numerous personalities throughout his life, which are published in this edition with his "Memories from my life".

• In cooperation with the Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria
• Duration: 2009-2010

The aim of this online edition is to make all of L. Gumplowicz's books, essays and articles available to interested parties. Not all texts will be made available in the first published version, but additions will be made on an ongoing basis. All original documents are available as TEI-compliant(Text Encoding Initiative) XML documents and are available in the HTML or PDF representation formats. The representation is true to the respective original in terms of pages and paragraphs and is therefore citable. The highlighting is largely true to the original, whereby the highlighting of personal names has been standardized as small caps.

• In cooperation with the Departments of History of the Universities of Graz and Klagenfurt, Carinthian Provincial Museum, Gurk Cathedral Archives
• Duration: 2010 - 2011

Together with the Departments of History of the Universities of Graz and Klagenfurt, the Carinthian State Museum and the Gurk Cathedral Archives, innovative ways of multimodal representation of documents are being explored, with particular attention being paid to the possibility of interactive linking of transcripts, text-critical commentaries and facsimiles. An FWF application is in preparation.

• In cooperation with the Department of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, the Department of History and the Academy of New Media
• Duration: 2009

The Department of Mathematics visualizes and animates basic quantum mechanical concepts and topics in several languages via our lead project GAMS. The Academy for New Media and Knowledge Transfer provides (media) didactic models and materials. The historical learning platform for students at the Department of History offers a collection of teaching materials on four centuries of history.

• Commissioned by the Faculty of Humanities, in cooperation with the ZID.
• Duration: 2007-2008

With the introduction of the UNIGRAZonline information management system, a standardized data source is now available. It is no longer necessary to store personal and other content (e.g. office hours, courses, publications, etc.) in redundant and high-maintenance databases. In cooperation with Graz University of Technology, an interface to UNIGRAZonline has enabled the INIG to process a wide range of information, and the results from this interface will be integrated into the department pages of the Faculty of Humanities - whose relocation to the web server and the CMS of the ZID is currently being prepared. The central entry point for this information will be the staff page (test page), which will now also include access to publications, teaching and projects in addition to office hours and telephone numbers.

• Commissioned by the Faculty of Humanities, in cooperation with the ZID.
• Duration: 2007-2008

Since the dissolution of the GewiLab service unit, the task of maintaining the department homepages of the Faculty of Humanities has been taken over by INIG staff as an additional activity. This task is now carried out by the ZID and the homepages are transferred to the university's content management system. This transfer is being accompanied by the INIG (structure creation and layout) and technically implemented in cooperation with the ZID.

• On behalf of the Faculty of Humanities
• Duration: 2004 - 2007

• On behalf of the Faculty of Humanities
• Duration: 2004 - 2005

• In cooperation with the Styrian Historical Commission
• Duration: 2008

The 164 texts compiled here mark the beginning of a new edition of those legally relevant medieval documents (charters) from the period up to 1192 which have a connection to Styria. It covers the period in which Styria was not yet in personal union with Austria. The texts published (together with the accompanying scholarly apparatus) are therefore only the beginning of a planned larger whole: a fully accessible, text-based online publication

• In cooperation with the Center for the History of Science
• Duration: 2007 - 2008

The correspondence between Alexander and Emil Rollett as well as scientific letters from the scientific community to Alexander Rollett, the first holder of a professorship for physiology and histology at the Medical Faculty of the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, which was established in 1863, can be accessed via an edition of letters from the Center for the History of Science.

• In cooperation with the Center for the History of Science
• Duration: 2006 - 2008

The aim of this project is to provide a reader on the history of science for students, in which the content of a series of lectures dealing with the development of science up to the 18th and 20th centuries is included. These lectures, together with all the accompanying material (biographical notes, images, sketches, terminological notes, etc.), are to be made available on the Internet using a workflow developed by INIG (Word document → TEI document → web publication) and the underlying information management systems (GAMS and BArch).

• In cooperation with the Department of Romance Studies
• Duration: 2006 - 2007

The project comprises a digitized complete edition of the essays of the Graz Romance philologist Ulrich Schulz-Buschhaus published in academic journals and anthologies. The available texts were encoded in XML using a format template generated by INIG and subsequently optimized at our Department for publication on the Internet (HTML) or as a print format (PDF). We are currently working on a detailed analysis of the texts with regard to various lexemes (name and subject index, technical terms, etc.).

• In cooperation with the Department of Classical Philology
• Duration: 2007

The subject of the research project is the research and categorization of all texts and bibliographical information on the reception of antiquity at the Jesuit University of Graz. In close cooperation with the staff of the Department of Classical Philology, a concept for structuring the content, which is essential for an electronic edition, was developed. The INIG is responsible for the workflow (Word document → TEI document → web publication) as well as for the technical implementation and the web presentation.

• In cooperation with the Department of Austrian Legal History and European Legal Development
• Duration: 2006 - 2007

The extensive collection of illustrations on legal iconography was made publicly accessible in February 2007 and serves primarily as teaching material. High-quality, zoomable graphics become an information pool for teaching and research through descriptive texts, dating, categorization and indexing. The search function enables user-friendly access to the numerous illustrations in the collection, which can be expanded as desired both in scope and in the form of presentation (material by course, material on specific categories, print edition).

• In cooperation with the Department of General Pedagogy at the Institute of Educational Science
• Duration: 2006 - 2007

This database-supported website of the Institute of Educational Science provides an insight into the biography, work and publications of educators from Austria and Eastern Europe and enables an (inter)national research community to maintain the database web-based. Existing data material was imported and modeled at the INIG in a database model newly created under PostgreSQL. Database queries are generated using the XML framework Cocoon and made accessible to the user via an easy-to-use web interface. Different views of the content (sorting by person, department and location) and an extended search function enable user-friendly access.

• In cooperation with the Department of Ancient History and Classical Studies
• Duration: 2006 - 2007

The Spectatores source archive represents the first attempt to collect all the evidence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the subject of spectatorship, to process it in a user-friendly way and to make it accessible for a wide range of questions. In addition, the relevant specialist literature is assigned to the respective sources, and the chosen medium allows for additions and updates, so that the information provided can always be kept up to date.

• In cooperation with FH-Joanneum and WU Vienna
• Duration: 2005 - 2006

The content pool gives you an overview of the status of the use of new media in teaching at Austrian universities and universities of applied sciences and shows you a "track record" of innovative, media-supported teaching projects. The Content Pool also aims to contribute to the networking of actors and cooperation partners.

• In cooperation with the "Treffpunkt Sprachen"
• Duration: 2001 - 2004

LAMM is a database-supported language learning environment that currently comprises approx. 600 cloze exercises for 7 languages at different learning levels. The program was implemented using Java and XML; all that is required to use it is a browser and the Java runtime environment (already integrated in newer operating systems). LAMM follows an open concept: language teachers can use the existing material and create new exercises and load them into the database. The exercises are created using a wizard, whereby the cloze texts can be noted down very easily. The current project phase is working on the implementation of multimedia listening comprehension exercises and on simplifying the client software for the exercise creators.

• In cooperation with the Department of Art History
• Duration: 2004

The task of the "Grazer Rezensionsseite" is to review new publications in the field of art history. The technical realization, design and implementation as a website (including full text search and print version) was carried out at the INIG.

• In cooperation with the Department of Art History
• Duration: 2004

medienkunst.at' sees itself as a university-based platform for the presentation and discussion of current media and net.art positions. The presentation and discussion of representative works of art from special fields of installation, video or computer art as well as the latest tendencies within net.art or software.art is intended to stimulate a scientific discourse on the art forms addressed as well as on the art-scientific and methodological approach. The graphic and technical implementation of the website - accessible through a category search - was realized with Cocoon and a relational database.

• In cooperation with the Department of Romance Studies
• Duration: 2002 - 2003

Based on international cooperation , the 3-year project is designed to collect phraseological units of everyday speech in Spain and Hispanoamerica with the final purpose of devising a dictionary including regionally specific as well as common panhispanic idioms and routine formulae. Detailed descriptions of their meanings/functions, formal properties, restrictions and self-explaining examples should permit both passive and active use of the DFH by foreign-language students and teachers alike.The INIG contributed to this project by creating and implementing a multilingual database model and supplying a GUI client.