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.
Hackathon · on site in Graz
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 1 November.
Resources
Distinct infrastructure parts, contributed by partners across Austria. Open each one for details and contacts.
Train and fine-tune models, run interactive GPU notebooks, and call a hosted OpenAI-compatible LLM and embedding API, built for Digital Humanities, not generic HPC.
Read moreMultispectral imaging (XpeCAM, MISHA), a scanning robot for fragile loose-leaf collections, and borrowable inference GPUs, available on request.
Read moreDatabase-as-a-service, dev/test VMs and CI runners, plus short and mid-term project storage: a development-first complement to your own institution.
Read moreThree DH tools improved through DHinfra investment: QLever, liiive.now and Pletka. Usable on our cluster and elsewhere.
Read moreReal projects on our infrastructure, announcements, and reports from across the consortium.
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 1 November.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DHinfra coordinated a loan of TU Wien's portable MISHA system to recover faded Old Serbian text on damaged charters in Cetinje — here is how the process works.
We are open to project collaborations and happy to help in joint projects. Contact us and we will try to find the best solution for your idea.