Shared infrastructure for
Digital Humanities in Austria

We pool compute, development services, digitization, and open-source software across Austrian institutions, so DH projects that lack resources or skills can still get the job done. A CLARIAH-AT initiative.

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What we do: More compute, easier access, and better support for digital humanities — democratizing infrastructure for all.

Hackathon · on site in Graz

CRASH: Cultural Heritage Advanced Search Hackathon

Monday 30 November and Tuesday 1 December 2026, Graz

Teams build and test search prototypes on cultural heritage data, with the language models and GPUs of the DHinfra cluster. Participation is free; registration is open until 8 November.

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What DHinfra.at offers

Distinct infrastructure parts, contributed by partners across Austria. Open each one for details and contacts.

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DHinfra.at on Ö1 and ORF 2
ORF interviewed DHinfra.at and looked at the cluster and how digital humanists use it. Two features came out of it, on radio and on TV.
CRASH: a hackathon on search in cultural heritage data, on the DHinfra cluster
On 30 November and 1 December 2026, teams build and test search prototypes on cultural heritage data in Graz. They work with the large open-weight language models and the GPUs of the DHinfra cluster. Participation is free, and registration is open until 8 November.
Public launch of DHinfra.at: slides and questions
About 70 people joined the online public launch of DHinfra.at on 12 October 2026. The slides are available for download, and the questions from the session point to what we add to the documentation next.
DHinfra.at is open to all: public launch on 12 October
Since 1 October 2026 the DHinfra cluster accepts project applications from all research and teaching in the humanities, cultural studies and the arts in Austria. Large open-weight language models run on the cluster itself, so data stays inside the academic network. Join the online public launch event on 12 October.
Pletka, formerly Zellij, is now open source
The core of Pletka, a platform for building semantic data models together, is released under the Apache 2.0 licence. DHinfra.at funded its storage backend, admin dashboard and generators. With it, the last of the three open-source tools we invested in is released, after QLever and liiive.now.
After the summer break: the cluster now accepts all DHinfra.at and CLARIAH-AT partners
The DHinfra.at project ended in June after internal testing phases with partner projects. DHinfra-Gov has taken over, the firewalls are open, and the GPU and LLM cluster in Graz now accepts all members of the DHinfra.at consortium and CLARIAH-AT partner institutions. Further opening starts in October.
HTR for Latin stone inscriptions: a use-case on the cluster
A student project in digital epigraphy as an example of what the cluster's GPU nodes can be used for, from a single training run to a systematic parameter search.
Three and a half years of DHinfra.at: results, and the handover to regular operations
On 8 June 2026 DHinfra.at presented the results of three and a half years of building shared DH infrastructure across Austria. As the project closes at the end of June, a CLARIAH-AT follow-up takes over the rollout into live operations.
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