Curriculum Vitae

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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

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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 10.58079/12p9n

Further records

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

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: 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: 10.5281/zenodo.16737492
  • Mar 2025
    Wenzelsbibel Digital: Völlig Losgelöst Poster DHd 2025, Bielefeld DOI: 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: 10.17613/gw2h-e162

Teaching and workshops

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 Read more
  • 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-XMLXPathXSLTRDF/SPARQLSKOSOntoLex-Lemon
Programming and tools
PythonGit/GitHubDockerLaTeXOverleaf
Infrastructure and repositories
GAMS/Fedora
AI-assisted methods
LLM-based annotation pipelinesPrompt documentationHuman-in-the-loop workflows

Languages

German
native
English
C1
French
B1
Spanish
B1
Latin
Dutch