Happy belated releaseday to us! ✨ Neuer Release seit 01.10. der digitalen Notizbuch-Edition von #PeterHandke an der #ÖNB: Ab sofort sind vier weitere Notizbücher (1979–1980, NB 022–NB 025) online - inklusive Volltextsuche und neuer Register: edition.onb.ac.at/context:hnb
About
I am a Digital Humanities researcher and software developer. I work on the Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB) at the University of Salzburg and on the digital edition of Peter Handke's notebooks at the Austrian National Library. My research connects medieval studies, art history and AI-assisted methods: semantic annotation of historical language data, text–image relations in medieval manuscripts and TEI-based research data infrastructures.
Current positions
- Senior Scientist
Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB), University of Salzburg - Software Developer, Digital Humanities
Research & Data Services, Austrian National Library
Research interests
- Word sense disambiguation and semantic annotation of historical language data
- Digital editions of medieval manuscripts, text–image relations
- AI-assisted indexing of iconographic motifs
- TEI-XML data modelling, data migration and research data infrastructure
- AI-assisted methods in the Digital Humanities and their critical reflection
Projects
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Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB)
Research infrastructure for Middle High German language and literature. Migration of the entire data set from RDF to TEI, platform relaunch, open data on GitHub and Zenodo.
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WB meets MHDBDB: The Wenceslas Bible as a pilot model for interoperable editions
CLARIAH-AT project under my lead: integrating the Wenceslas Bible into the MHDBDB with LLM-assisted lemmatisation and POS tagging. Searchable since May 2026.
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The Wenceslas Bible – Digital Edition and Analysis
Complete digital edition of the Wenceslas Bible (University of Salzburg and Austrian National Library): facsimile, transcription, reading text, Vulgate synopsis and analysis of the image programme.
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Peter Handke Notizbücher. Digitale Edition
Edition of Peter Handke's notebooks as facsimile with transcription, commentary and indexes (ÖNB and DLA Marbach). Software development in the Research & Data Services department.
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ÖSZD-ExilBriefe: Stefan and Lotte Zweig's letters from exile
Cataloguing and digitisation of around 500 letters from the estate of Stefan and Lotte Zweig for the platform Stefan Zweig digital.
Latest
Latest on Bluesky
Wie bringt man einem LLM böhmische Schreibgewohnheiten bei? Am Beispiel der Wenzelsbibel zeigt mein CLARIAH-AT-Projekt (WB-DEA meets MHDBDB), wie historische Sprachvarianten digital aufbereitet und an die MHDBDB angebunden werden: mittelalter.hypotheses.org/41016 #DigitalHumanities #Mittelalter
„Bildung ist eine zentrale Zukunftsinvestition“, schreibt das Bundeskanzleramt. Doch jetzt plant die Bundesregierung massive Kürzungen bei den Universitäten. Das gefährdet Forschung, Lehre und damit unsere gemeinsame Zukunft. mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/un...
Latest blog posts
MHDBDB Next: Forschen ohne Datenbankserver
Die Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank (MHDBDB) gehört zu den ältesten digitalen Forschungsinfrastrukturen der germanistischen Mediävistik. 1972 als Dissertationsprojekt auf Loc…
Digital Humanities an der Universität Salzburg (Hypotheses) →
Recent publications
- 9 Jul 2026
- 17 Mar 2026
- 20 Feb 2026
- 5 Feb 2026