DiTAH - a Project to Expand Digital Skills, Methods and Infrastructure in Humanities Research and Teaching

The aim of the DiTAH-project (Digital Transformation for Austrian Humanities) funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research is to establish and process the methods and approaches developed in the Digital Humanities in such a way that they can be transferred to everyday use in humanities research and the education of students and scholars. Three major subject areas are considered: integration of the digital infrastructure, preparation and low-threshold access to digital methods and tools, and the promotion of digital skills in science and teaching. Within the project, the interdisciplinary investigation of historical manuscripts generates a variety of measurement and descriptive data: these range from multi- and hyperspectral images to spectroscopic material analyses, codicological and restoration descriptions, to transcriptions and philological editions.
The data material that has been produced continuously for years as part of the research work of the Vienna Centre of Image and Material Analysis in Cultural Heritage (CIMA) is used as a concrete application. The resulting repository is intended for further use of the data in technical, scientific and humanities research, as well as for university teaching (technical methods and data sources in the humanities).