The Austrian Academy of Sciences’ (ÖAW) 10th ACDH Research Day, featuring Jakob Leitner (FWF GuDiE project)

On 18 November, Jakob Leitner, who is part of the FWF project “Digital Edition of Gumpenhuber’s Theatre Chronicles (GuDiE)” based at the Department of Art History and Musicology, will speak on the topic “Adapting, Not Adopting? Building a Performance-History Ontology for 18th-Century Music Theatre’. This lecture will take place as part of the third session on 18 November and will open the afternoon programme of Research Day.

The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) is hosting this event with a thematic focus on the fact that countless humanities projects are producing, curating and making ever-larger volumes of data openly accessible. Nevertheless, many datasets often remain self-contained and relatively isolated. Datasets from musicology exist alongside those from literary studies, prosopography, dialectology and print culture, yet none of them is aware of its neighbours, even though they potentially describe the same people, places and periods. Linking these datasets at a semantic level makes their fundamental interconnection explicit and predictable. The result is a potentially dense network of relationships spanning disciplines, regions and historical periods, which opens up new research opportunities and insights that no single dataset could offer on its own. 

Further information on the full programme for Research Day