Digital Philology
The Department of Digital Philology at the University of Vienna
The Department of Digital Philology at the University of Vienna conducts research and teaching in Digital Humanities, bringing together linguistics, literary studies, computer science, and editorial studies. Our work focuses on Digital Corpus Linguistics, Digital Text Studies, and Digital Scholarly Editing, combining computational methods with critical perspectives on language, texts, and cultural heritage. We contribute to the Master's Programme in Digital Humanities and collaborate with national and international partners to advance innovative research, open science, and digital scholarship.
What are digital cultural studies and humanities?
The comprehensive digitization of society does not stop at the humanities. Cultural artifacts such as texts, images, and audiovisual media are increasingly available in digital form, and digital methods are being used more and more frequently in cultural studies and humanities research.
Digital humanities is a new field of research that has emerged during this period of media transformation. It deals with the application of digital methods in the humanities and cultural studies, as well as with the consequences of media change for these disciplines.
In the digital humanities, interdisciplinarity plays a major role: research approaches from the cultural sciences and humanities are combined with those from computer science and brought into relation with one another. This not only opens up new possibilities for the humanities and cultural sciences, but also allows datafication and digitization to be understood not merely as a purely technical matter, but to be critically reflected upon in terms of their methodology and consequences.
Behind this lies the conviction that the cultural sciences and humanities, with their core competencies in dealing with pluralistic, multi-perspective worldviews and their competent handling of sources and critical reflection, can make essential contributions to shaping the digital transformation of society.
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Studies
In terms of teaching, the Department of Digital Philology is involved in organizing and running the Master's program in Digital Humanities and the corresponding Bachelor's extension curriculum, to which we contribute a number of courses.
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Research
We conduct research in the fields of linguistics, literary studies, and computer science, with dedicated strands in language-based as well as text- and heritage-oriented digital humanities.
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Events
Here you will find announcements, programs and forthcoming dates for events in Digital Philology and, more broadly, Digital Humanities.
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About Us
The Department of Digital Philology is part of the Digital Humanities research focus at the University of Vienna, which it forms together with the Digital Humanities Research Group at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies.
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