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  • Open Reassembly

    • Institut für Computergraphik und Wissensvisualisierung, Technische Universität Graz
    • Reinhold Preiner
    • Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010 Graz
    • +43 316 873 - 5418
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • https://openreassembly.cgv.tugraz.at/
    • Activity: Online game, rating
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Many archaeological artifacts today are only preserved in fragments. Reassembling these parts into their original form is therefore an important but challenging task for archaeology. Computer-assisted methods can facilitate this task or even partially solve it in some cases. However, due to the usually poor preservation of these artifacts and their potential incompleteness, reliable fully automatic reassembly is rarely possible in practice.The goal of the Open Reassembly project is to...

  • Stories of Post-extractive F*utures

    • Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
    • Karin Reisinger
    • Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Wien
    • Topic: History, Politics, Land use, Culture, Gender, Living together
    • https://www.mountains-of-ore.org/de/pef/practice/
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, observing
    • Location: a local area
    The shrinking town of Eisenerz lies at the foot of the Erzberg mountain, Austria’s largest and best-known site of extraction of iron ore. The post-industrial town is experiencing a rural exodus, which concerns women in particular. The spatial practices of mining areas have been under-researched using inclusive methods. Mining is predominantly narrated in male, heroic narratives, while counter-narratives of repair, care, reproduction and maintenance are mostly overlooked. Within this complex...

  • Viennese playbills 1930-1939

    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Alexandra Egger
    • Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
    • +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/theaterzettel/
    • Activity: identifying
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Viennese playbills 1930-1939" is about the metadata capture of the playbills from the holdings of the Vienna City Library from this period. Previously only organized by theater and not indexed individually, during the project these valuable historical sources will become recorded individually and thus discoverable for all. The playbills provide insights into an initially internationally acclaimed and lively Viennese theater world, which was...

  • Writing history: Letters 1920–1934

    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Alexandra Egger
    • Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
    • +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1920-1934/
    • Activity: rating, writing, transcribing
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, a local area, Styria
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Letters 1920-1934" is about the transcription of the unique letter collection of the Vienna City Library from this period. In contrast to historical printed works, which are now subjected to automatic full-text recognition as standard, this is still not so easy to do for manuscripts - especially when the documents come from many different writers, as in this case. Since the democratization of knowledge plays a central role in the range of...

  • Writing History: Letters 1914-1919

    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Alexandra Egger
    • Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
    • +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1914-1919/
    • Activity: identifying, writing, transcribing
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Letters 1914-1919" is about the transcription of the unique letter collection of the Vienna City Library from this period. In contrast to historical printed works, which are now subjected to automatic full-text recognition as standard, this is still not so easy to do for manuscripts - especially when the documents come from many different writers, as in this case. Since the democratization of knowledge plays a central role in the range of...

  • The Psychological is Participatory

    • Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
    • Nora Ruck
    • Freudplatz 1, 1020 Wien
    • Topic: Health, History, Politics, Culture
    • https://psychologie.sfu.ac.at/en/research/the-psychological-is-participatory/
    • Activity: photography, rating, discussing, writing, observing
    • Location: Vienna
    Counselling centres for women* are important institutions that have been founded since the 1980s by the second women's movement. In the project, researchers are conducting research together with counsellors and clients of Viennese women's* counselling centres. We are interested in the life stories of women* who seek help at counselling centres. How can women lead a good life in this society today and what role can women's counselling play in this? In workshops, questions and methods are...

  • Memories and Imaginaries

    • Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
    • Marina Gržinić
    • Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien
    • +43 (1) 588 16-6600
    • Topic: History, Politics, Culture, Language
    • https://convivialityaspotentiality.akbild.ac.at/citizen-science/
    • Activity: discussing
    • Location: Vienna
    Democratic Citizenship"Memories and Imaginaries" critically explores with students in Austria what it means to be a citizen. Who can or is allowed to actively participate in the political community? Who can or is not allowed to? We address these questions with the aim of finding collective strategies to confront the state of exclusion and marginalization.The aim of the research is for researchers to explore the importance of remembering, retelling and re-imagining the past and the future...

  • Zeit.shift

    • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
    • Silvia Gstrein
    • Abteilung Digitale Services, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 512 507 25400
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • https://all4ling.eurac.edu/de/zeitshift/
    • Activity: identifying, locating, rating, discussing, transcribing
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Offers active beyond the duration of Zeit.shiftThe Zeit.shift project ended in June 2023. The central web offerings continue to be active beyond the project duration. Specifically, the results can be followed via the website. The newly generated web portal is accessible worldwide and the text material provided (several million newspaper pages) is searchable and downloadable. Geodata and content tags can be assigned via an external platform and the online game Ötzit! is freely available...

  • Kremser scorpion

    • University College for Agrarian and environmental pedagogy
    • Martin Scheuch
    • Angermayergasse 1, 1130 Wien
    • 0699/11466566
    • Topic: Animals, History
    • Activity: identifying, observing
    • Location: a local area
    Participatory exploration of the "Kremser scorpion” (Euscorpius tergestinus) with school students"Triestino scorpion" (Euscorpius tergestinus - still listed as E. carpathicus in the Red List of NÖ), which are threatened with extinction in Lower Austria, exists as an archaeozoon in Krems. This population is an isolated north-eastern outpost of the distribution area. Since 2019, sightings of these animals have been collected together with students of the BRG Krems Ringstraße 33, a UNESCO...

  • Topotheque

    • ICARUS - International Centre for Archival Research
    • Alexander Schatek
    • Gertrude-Fröhlich-Sandner-Straße 2-4 | Tower C, Floor 7-9 1100 Wien
    • 0664 / 266 55 10
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • https://www.topothek.at/de/
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, writing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The growing flood of images cannot be processed by institutions alone. Partnership with citizen scientists is vital. Topotheque is a digital archive and network in which this historical legacy can be gathered. For the locally resident Topotheque users, every new image and new piece of information means a valuable building block with which they can document their regional history in more detail. Enthusiasm for the work with the Topotheques creates local archives that captures an interest that...

  • GenTeam

    • Felix Gundacker
    • Pantzergasse 30/8, 1190 Wien
    • 0676 40 11 059
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • https://genteam.at/
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, writing, translating
    • Location: Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The European genealogy database"Connecting genealogists"GenTeam is a European platform of genealogical databases. Both scientists and amateur genealogists can make their data available here for free for other researchers. The cooperation of collaborators from many different countries has made it possible to compile databases that one researcher could not typically manage alone due to the volume. Our focus is currently on the indexing of ecclesiastical sources from Lower Austria, on a...

  • Faces of migration

    • Department of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck
    • Erol Yildiz und Marc Hill
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • https://www.uibk.ac.at/iezw/migration-bildung/
    • Activity: photography, discussing, writing
    • Location: Tyrol
    This project ran from 01.07.2017 to 31.12.2019. You can download a thematic booklet created in the process at the bottom of this page. In addition, print copies can now be made available to school classes free of charge (while stocks last). Please contact the project leaders if you would like to use them for teaching.Faces of migration. Youth from Tyrol collaborated to research their family histories of migrationStudies in social history have documented time and again that migration has...

  • City-Country-Child

    • Academy of fine arts Vienna / IKL and Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History - University of Vienna, Department of Art History
    • Martina Fineder und Luise Reitstätter
    • +43 (0) 1 588 16–1150
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture
    • http://stadt-land-kind.at/?cat=1
    • Activity: photography, discussing, writing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vienna, Styria
    An Intergenerational Ethnography on Rural Images of LongingTaking the unique photography collection of the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art as its starting point, the research project “Stadt-Land-Kind” (City-Country-Child) investigated the myth of a “better life in the countryside” from an intergenerational perspective. In dialogue with social scientists, and in exchange with older generations of parents and grandparents, pupils conducted research into prevailing urban/rural...

  • United by Crisis?

    United by Crisis?
    • Universität für Weiterbildung Krems (Zentrum für Museale Sammlungswissenschaften)
    • Jakob Maurer
    • c/o Landessammlungen Niederösterreich, Schloss Asparn/Zaya, Schlossgasse 1, A-2151 Asparn/Zaya
    • Topic: History, Catastrophs, Land use, Culture
    • https://www.united-by-crisis.at/en/
    • Activity: measuring, counting, identifying, locating, observing, Offline participation
    • Location: Lower Austria, a local area
    Participate in archaeological field surveys and/or in cleaning, documenting & interpreting archaeological finds.A transdisciplinary look at the early Neolithic communities in the Schletz settlement clusterThe project aims to explore the surroundings of the famous Neolithic settlement of Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria). Numerous human remains suggest a violent attack on this site in the Late Linear Pottery Culture, approx. 7.000 years ago. Due to its size and earthworks...

  • ExploreAT!

    ExploreAT!
    • Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Austrian Academy of Sciences
    • Eveline Wandl-Vogt
    • Austrian Centre for Digital HumanitiesÖsterreichische Akademie der WissenschaftenWohllebengasse 12-14, 2. Stock1040 Wien
    • Topic: History, Language
    • https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/projects/completed-projects/exploreat
    • Activity: locating, discussing, writing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    ExploreAT! - exploring Austrias culture through the language glassThe exploreAT! project aims to provide unique insights into the diversity of the German language (especially in Austria). With the help of innovative digital tools, a unique collection of Bavarian dialects in the region of the former Habsburg Monarchy (1911-1998) is being explored. The extensive corpus contains 200,000 main lemmas in about 4 million entries. The collection includes a 5 volume dictionary with about 50,000 main...