history

  • GenTeam

    • Project lead: Felix Gundacker
    • Address: Pantzergasse 30/8, 1190 Wien
    • Telephone: 0676 40 11 059
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, writing, translating
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://genteam.at/
    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...

  • Topotheque

    • Project lead: Alexander Schatek
    • ICARUS - International Centre for Archival Research
    • Address: Gertrude-Fröhlich-Sandner-Straße 2-4 | Tower C, Floor 7-9 1100 Wien
    • Telephone: 0664 / 266 55 10
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.topothek.at/de/
    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...

  • Kremser scorpion

    • Project lead: Martin Scheuch
    • University College for Agrarian and environmental pedagogy
    • Address: Angermayergasse 1, 1130 Wien
    • Telephone: 0699/11466566
    • Topic: Animals, History
    • Activity: identifying, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    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...

  • Writing History: Letters 1914-1919

    • Project lead: Alexandra Egger
    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Address: Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • Activity: identifying, writing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1914-1919/
    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...

  • Writing history: Letters 1920–1934

    • Project lead: Alexandra Egger
    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Address: Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
    • Telephone: +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: rating, writing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1920-1934/
    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...

  • Viennese playbills 1930-1939

    • Project lead: Alexandra Egger
    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Address: Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
    • Telephone: +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • Activity: identifying
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/theaterzettel/
    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...

  • Open Reassembly

    • Project lead: Reinhold Preiner
    • Institut für Computergraphik und Wissensvisualisierung, Technische Universität Graz
    • Address: Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010 Graz
    • Telephone: +43 316 873 - 5418
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • Activity: Online game, rating
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://openreassembly.cgv.tugraz.at/
    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...

  • Faces of migration

    • Project lead: Erol Yildiz und Marc Hill
    • Department of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • Activity: photography, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/iezw/migration-bildung/
    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

    • Project lead: Martina Fineder und Luise Reitstätter
    • Academy of fine arts Vienna / IKL and Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History - University of Vienna, Department of Art History
    • Telephone: +43 (0) 1 588 16–1150
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture
    • Activity: photography, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Closed participation
    • Project link: http://stadt-land-kind.at/?cat=1
    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...

  • ExploreAT!

    ExploreAT!
    • Project lead: Eveline Wandl-Vogt
    • Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Austrian Academy of Sciences
    • Address: Austrian Centre for Digital HumanitiesÖsterreichische Akademie der WissenschaftenWohllebengasse 12-14, 2. Stock1040 Wien
    • Topic: History, Language
    • Activity: locating, discussing, writing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh/projects/completed-projects/exploreat
    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...

  • Zeit.shift

    • Project lead: Silvia Gstrein
    • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
    • Address: Abteilung Digitale Services, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
    • Telephone: +43 512 507 25400
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • Activity: identifying, locating, rating, discussing, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://all4ling.eurac.edu/de/zeitshift/
    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...

  • Memories and Imaginaries

    • Project lead: Marina Gržinić
    • Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
    • Address: Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 (1) 588 16-6600
    • Topic: History, Politics, Culture, Language
    • Activity: discussing
    • Participation: Closed participation
    • Project link: https://convivialityaspotentiality.akbild.ac.at/citizen-science/
    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...

  • United by Crisis?

    United by Crisis?
    • Project lead: Jakob Maurer
    • Universität für Weiterbildung Krems (Zentrum für Museale Sammlungswissenschaften)
    • Address: c/o Landessammlungen Niederösterreich, Schloss Asparn/Zaya, Schlossgasse 1, A-2151 Asparn/Zaya
    • Topic: History, Disasters, Land use, Culture
    • Activity: measuring, counting, identifying, locating, observing, Offline participation
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.united-by-crisis.at/en/
    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...

  • Stories of Post-extractive F*utures

    • Project lead: Karin Reisinger
    • Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
    • Address: Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Wien
    • Topic: History, Politics, Land use, Culture, Gender, Living together
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.mountains-of-ore.org/de/pef/practice/
    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...

  • The Psychological is Participatory

    • Project lead: Nora Ruck
    • Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
    • Address: Freudplatz 1, 1020 Wien
    • Topic: Health, History, Politics, Culture
    • Activity: photography, rating, discussing, writing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://psychologie.sfu.ac.at/en/research/the-psychological-is-participatory/
    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...

  • 44 handwritten cookbooks from the Wien Museum collection

    A photomontage created from several scanned pages from handwritten cookbooks. Arranged in a star shape, like an open cookbook.
    • Project lead: Evi Scheller
    • Wien Museum
    • Address: Karlsplatz 8, 1040 Wien
    • Telephone: 066488293852
    • Topic: Food, History, Culture, Language
    • Activity: transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://wienmuseum.crowdsourcing.wien/kochbuecher/
    The cookbooks comprising more than 7,700 pages are to be transcribed, reviewed, and tagged online. The documents provide valuable insights into everyday historical practices, dietary habits, and culinary knowledge from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. What are the aims of the project? This crowdsourcing project aims to improve access to a collection held by the Wien Museum, which has so far only been partially catalogued...

  • Documentation of historical floods in Lower Austria prior to instrumental hydrographic records

    The picture shows flooded houses in the parish of Kilb.
    • Project lead: Gertrud Haidvogl
    • Institute of Hydrobiology and Water Management, BOKU University
    • Address: Gregor-Mendelstraße 33, 1180 Wien
    • Telephone: 01 47654/81204
    • Topic: Weather, History, Disasters, Land use, Water
    • Activity: measuring, photography, identifying, locating, transcribing
    • Participation: Open participation
    In this project, citizen scientists are researching material on historical floods along the Danube tributaries in Lower Austria prior to 1960. This information is intended to help expand existing water level data and improve our understanding of flooding.  What are the aims of the project? One of the project’s objectives is to collect and analyse information on historical floods on the Danube’s tributaries in Lower Austria from...