Cultural Heritage
We have been supporting projects in the field of digitisation and the management of cultural data since the 1990s.
AIT has been a partner of the European Digital Library, Europeana, since 2008 and took over the function of a certified aggregator of cultural, digital data from Austria for Europeana after the launch of the Europeana portal in late autumn 2008. Since 2011, we have also been operating the European service centre for natural history data, where we manage more than 13 million items of data for natural history museums, research centres and botanical gardens throughout Europe.
The majority of our long-standing international research projects in the cultural sector focus on the development of virtual catalogues and portals for museums, libraries and archives.
One recent example of a national cultural project is the ChIA project, in which the Europeana Local Service Centre at AIT Forschungsgesellschaft mbH was involved as a partner. Here, new technologies were tested against the background of a selected dataset of images on the subject of ‘food’, with the aim of enabling improved access and enriched analysis options for cultural data.
