# Curriculum Vitae · Julia Hintersteiner, MA BA

Digital Humanities · Medieval Studies · Digital Editions · Salzburg / Vienna, Austria
julia.hintersteiner@plus.ac.at · julia.hintersteiner@onb.ac.at · ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8333-3658
PDF: https://juliahin.github.io/en/julia-hintersteiner-cv-en.pdf

## 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

## Academic positions

- **Jun 2026 – May 2027**: Senior Scientist (project staff), Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB), University of Salzburg
- **since Mar 2026**: Software Developer with a focus on Digital Humanities, Research & Data Services Department, Austrian National Library. Project “Peter Handke: Notizbücher. Digitale Edition”
- **Jan 2026 – Apr 2026**: Project lead, CLARIAH-AT project “WB-DEA meets MHDBDB”, University of Salzburg
    - Integration of the Wenceslas Bible edition data into the MHDBDB data structure
    - Annotation and AI-assisted data preparation
    - Development of a reusable pipeline for ingesting further texts into the MHDBDB
- **Nov 2025 – Jul 2026**: Project staff, “ÖSZD-ExilBriefe: Stefan und Lotte Zweigs Briefe aus dem Exil”, Literaturarchiv Salzburg
    - Digitisation and metadata capture in TEI-XML
- **Oct 2024 – Dec 2025**: Senior Scientist (project staff), Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB), University of Salzburg
    - Complete migration of the database from RDF to TEI-only; coordination and evaluation of the platform relaunch
    - Preparation and curation of the entire TEI data set
    - Design and execution of user acceptance testing for the new MHDBDB interface
    - Project management and coordination (“MHDBDB goes AI”), third-party funding acquisition
    - Data maintenance and evaluation in the projects “Users First” and “ParzivAI”
- **Oct 2024 – Oct 2025**: University Assistant (parental leave cover), Older German Literature, Department of German Studies, University of Salzburg
    - Research within the digital edition of the Wenceslas Bible (image annotation, Python scripting)
    - Organisation of the annual conference of the Mediävistenverband
    - Teaching support; member of the department's PR team
- **Nov 2023 – Sep 2024**: Senior Scientist (parental leave cover), Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB), University of Salzburg
    - TEI documentation, XPath queries, XSLT scripting
    - Database evaluation and quality assurance
    - Contribution to grant proposals
- **Sep 2022 – Nov 2023**: Research Associate, Project “Die Wenzelsbibel – Digitale Edition und Analyse”, University of Salzburg, in cooperation with the Austrian National Library
    - Development of image annotation workflows for medieval manuscripts
    - Iconographic and semantic analysis of text–image relations
    - Development of controlled vocabularies
    - Evaluation of computer-assisted image analysis (e.g. object detection)
- **Oct 2019 – Jan 2021**: Student Assistant, Department of Art History, University of Salzburg
    - Editorial work and maintenance of the Prometheus image database
    - Support in conference organisation and teaching

## Projects

- **since Nov 2023**: Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB), Senior Scientist, Department of German Studies, University of Salzburg (University of Salzburg; sub-projects funded by CLARIAH-AT (BMFWF)). https://mhdbdb.plus.ac.at/
- **Aug 2025 – Dec 2026**: WB meets MHDBDB: The Wenceslas Bible as a pilot model for interoperable editions, Principal investigator, University of Salzburg (CLARIAH-AT small-scale projects call 2025 (BMFWF)). https://clariah.at/de/projects/wb-meets-mhdbdb/
- **Feb 2022 – Oct 2024**: The Wenceslas Bible – Digital Edition and Analysis, Research associate, Department of German Studies, University of Salzburg (State of Salzburg (project phase 2022–2024)). https://edition.onb.ac.at/context:wenbibel
- **Oct 2025 – Sep 2028**: Peter Handke Notizbücher. Digitale Edition, Software developer, Austrian National Library (FWF (lead agency) and DFG). https://edition.onb.ac.at/context:hnb
- **Jan 2025 – Jun 2026**: ÖSZD-ExilBriefe: Stefan and Lotte Zweig's letters from exile, Project staff, Literaturarchiv Salzburg, University of Salzburg. https://stefanzweig.digital/

All projects: https://juliahin.github.io/en/projects.md

## Education

- **Feb 2022 – Feb 2025**: Master's programme in Digital Humanities (not completed), University of Graz
- **until Nov 2023**: MA in German Studies (focus on Medieval Studies), University of Graz. Master's thesis: „Text-Bild-Relationen in der Wenzelsbibel“
- **until Feb 2022**: BA in Art History, University of Salzburg
- **Sep 2021 – Feb 2022**: Erasmus exchange semester, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- **until Jan 2020**: BA in German Studies, University of Salzburg
- **Jun 2016**: Matura (school leaving examination) with distinction, Europagymnasium Baumgartenberg (Upper Austria)

## Publications

### Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

- 2026: Transferring AI-Based Iconclass Classification Across Image Traditions: A RAG Pipeline for the Wenzelsbibel. In: Histories 6 (2026), no. 1, art. 17 (With Drew B. Thomas). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/histories6010017

### Conference proceedings

- 2026: Lessons Learned eines der ältesten DH-Projekte der Welt. In: Book of Abstracts – DHd 2026 “Nicht nur Text, nicht nur Daten”, University of Vienna, 23–27 February 2026 (With Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Alan Lena van Beek, Christian Steiner). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18591948
- 2025: Face Detection in Historic Manuscripts. A Case Study on the Wenceslas Bible. In: 4th International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition (FAPER 2025), ICIAP 2025 Workshop Proceedings (With Heinz Hofbauer, Manfred Kern, Andreas Uhl)
- 2025: Wenceslas or Not. Face Comparison on Frana's Wenceslas Depiction in the Wenceslas Bible. In: 5th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition for Cultural Heritage (PatReCH 2025), ICIAP 2025 Workshop Proceedings (With Heinz Hofbauer, Manfred Kern, Andreas Uhl)

### Digital editions, software and data

- 2026: Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank (MHDBDB) – TEI-XML Repository. Software, 10 June 2026 (With Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Klaus M. Schmidt, Alan Lena van Beek, Christian Steiner). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20627657
- since 2024: Wenzelsbibel Digital. Die Wenzelsbibel – Digitale Edition und Analyse. Cooperation project of the Department of German Studies, University of Salzburg, and the Austrian National Library (With Manfred Kern, Linda Beutel-Thurow, Oleksii Sapov-Erlinger, Martina Bürgermeister, Viktoria Spadinger). https://edition.onb.ac.at/context:wenbibel

### Blog posts

- 2026: MHDBDB Next: Forschen ohne Datenbankserver. Digital Humanities an der Universität Salzburg (Hypotheses), 9 July 2026 (With Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Alan van Beek). DOI: https://doi.org/10.58079/16jkg
- 2025: Poc, the Black Knight. Wie voreingenommen sind LLMs bei mittelalterlicher Literatur?. Digital Humanities an der Universität Salzburg (Hypotheses), 6 November 2025 (With Alan Lena van Beek). DOI: https://doi.org/10.58079/153my
- 2024: Von der Datenpflege zur Schnittstellenentwicklung: Eine Evaluation des Datenkolosses MHDBDB. Digital Humanities an der Universität Salzburg (Hypotheses) (With Michael Göggelmann, Alan Lena van Beek, Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer). DOI: https://doi.org/10.58079/12p9n

### Talks and posters

- Feb 2026: Lessons Learned eines der ältesten DH-Projekte der Welt (Talk, DHd 2026, University of Vienna), With Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Alan Lena van Beek, Christian Steiner
- Jan 2026: From Punch Cards to Prompt Engineering: The MHDBDB and the Future of Semantic Annotation with LLMs (Talk, ACDH Lecture 12.1, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ÖAW) in cooperation with the University of Vienna). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18412225
- Sep 2025: Die Wenzelsbibel zwischen Codex und Code (Talk, Interdisziplinäre Handschriftenforschung im digitalen Zeitalter in Österreich, Austrian National Library, Vienna)
- Jul 2025: From Users to Co-Creators. Learning from and with the Middle High German Conceptual Database (Talk, International Medieval Congress, Leeds). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16737492
- Mar 2025: Wenzelsbibel Digital: Völlig Losgelöst (Poster, DHd 2025, Bielefeld). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14944537
- Feb 2025: Gib mir Tiernamen! Das Namenssystem der MHDBDB (Talk, Conference of the Mediävistenverband, Salzburg)
- Feb 2025: Mit Linked Open Data-Verfahren zur Standardisierung von Benennungen in der Wenzelsbibel und in der Vulgata (Talk, Conference of the Mediävistenverband, Salzburg)
- Sep 2024: Digital Sustainability: Relaunch of the MHDBDB (Poster, CLARIAH Summer School: From Archive to Algorithm)
- Apr 2024: Text and Image Encoding in the Digital Edition Wenceslas Bible Digital (Guest lecture, Seminar Digital Humanities, University of Salzburg)
- Oct 2023: Interoperability of Text and Image in the Digital Edition of the Wenceslas Bible (Poster, TEI Conference 2023, Paderborn University). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17613/gw2h-e162

### Teaching and workshops

- Sep 2025: Bias Detection in der historischen Textanalyse: Prompting, Perspektiven und semantische Präzision in der AI-Readiness der MHDBDB (Workshop contribution, FORGE (Research Data in the Humanities), Rostock). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17178192. Code: https://github.com/Middle-High-German-Conceptual-Database/Bias-Detection-Workshop
- Sep 2024: Introduction to Text Modelling with TEI (Workshop, CLARIAH Summer School: From Archive to Algorithm)

### Further records

Imported automatically from ORCID and Zenodo, not yet editorially sorted.

- 9 Jul 2026: LLMs in the Service of Medieval Text Integration: WB meets MHDBDB (Presentation; Hintersteiner, Julia; Zenodo). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21277766
- 17 Mar 2026: From Miniature to Metadata: AI-Assisted Iconography for Medieval Manuscripts (Presentation; Thomas, Drew; Hintersteiner, Julia; Zenodo). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19065710
- 20 Feb 2026: From Miniature to Metadata: Transferring AI-Assisted Iconography to Medieval Manuscripts (Conference paper; Hintersteiner, Julia; Thomas, Drew B.; Zenodo). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18696403
- 5 Feb 2026: Iconclass Annotations and LLM-Generated Descriptions for Selected Wenzelsbibel Miniatures (Dataset; Thomas, Drew B.; Hintersteiner, Julia; Zenodo). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19454449
- May 2025: User Acceptance Testing in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften (Other; Alan Lena van Beek; Julia Hintersteiner; Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer; ORCID). https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8333-3658
- 1 Jan 2025: Wie annotiert man eigentlich den Pegasus? (Blog post; Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Katharina; van Beek, Alan; Hintersteiner, Julia; Zenodo). DOI: https://doi.org/10.58079/13pru

## Organisation and service

- Co-organisation of the workshop “Connecting Editions”, Austrian National Library, September 2026
- Organisation of the CLARIAH hackathon “Von historischen Daten zu KI”, October 2025 (https://dhsalzburg.hypotheses.org/6295)
- Co-organisation of the 20th early-career conference of the Mediävistenverband, Salzburg, February 2025
- Participant in the DHd mentoring programme

## Technical skills

- Markup languages and standards: TEI-XML, XPath, XSLT, RDF/SPARQL, SKOS, OntoLex-Lemon
- Programming and tools: Python, Git/GitHub, Docker, LaTeX, Overleaf
- Infrastructure and repositories: GAMS/Fedora
- AI-assisted methods: LLM-based annotation pipelines, Prompt documentation, Human-in-the-loop workflows

## Languages

- German (native)
- English (C1)
- French (B1)
- Spanish (B1)
- Latin
- Dutch

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Last updated: 19 Oct 2026 · https://juliahin.github.io/en/cv/