Resources
Digital Humanities infrastructure
across Austria
DHinfra.at partners offer shared infrastructure in four areas. This is the overview — open each one for what it is, how it is used, and who to contact.
GPU & LLM Cluster
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 moreDigitization
Multispectral imaging (XpeCAM, MISHA), a scanning robot for fragile loose-leaf collections, and borrowable inference GPUs — available on request.
Read moreSaaS / IaaS & storage
Database-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 moreOpen Source Software
Three DH tools improved through DHinfra investment — QLever, liiive.now and Zellij. Usable on our cluster and elsewhere.
Read morePartner contributions
Who contributes to each area. ★ core contributor · ✓ supporting contributor. See Partners for contacts.
| Area | KFUG | PLUS | UWK | UniAK | LFUI | TUW | ÖNB | ÖAW | UniVie |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digitization | ✓ | ★ | ★ | ||||||
| GPU / ML | ★ | ✓ | ★ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| SaaS / IaaS & storage | ★ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
| Software | ★ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Registered research infrastructure
The hardware and facilities behind DHinfra.at are registered in the national research-infrastructure database (FI DB) of the BMBWF, across the participating institutions. Each entry names its contact person. Some entries are still being applied for.
The database covers far more than DHinfra.at. Institutions across Austria list compute, imaging and lab infrastructure there and mark it as open for collaboration, so if what you need is not on this page, search the FI DB and contact the facility directly.
Compute
| Facility | Institution | FI DB |
|---|---|---|
| GPU Cluster for Digital Humanities | KFUG | Entry |
| GPU Cluster for Digital Humanities | UWK | Entry |
| Database Research Cluster Database-as-a-Service and test/development infrastructure-as-a-Service for DH. | PLUS | Entry |
| GPU Server / Storage Processing of captured imaging data via deep learning and other methods. | TUW | requested |
Digitization & imaging
| Facility | Institution | FI DB |
|---|---|---|
| ScanRobot (robotic scanner for loose sheets) Prototype robotic scanner for loose sheets up to A4; optimised for early-20th-century registration forms. | UIBK | Entry |
| Canon imageFORMULA DR-G2090 production scanner A3 production document scanner, up to 100 sheets per minute; currently digitising a 1.5M index-card catalogue (Univ. Wien Numismatics × Univ. Innsbruck). | UIBK | Entry |
| 5 repro stands with Sony ILX-LR1 cameras 61 MP repro camera rigs for fast, high-quality archival document capture (about 2,500–3,000 shots per day). | UIBK | Entry |
| 2 NVIDIA DGX Spark On-prem inference for small/medium models — for privacy-sensitive archive digitization. | UIBK | Entry |
| XpeCAM multispectral imaging system Mobile, filter-based multispectral capture (350–1200 nm, 30 filters); no darkroom required. | TUW | Entry |
| MISHA multispectral imaging system Mobile multispectral imaging for archives (flat objects); used for the Cetinje charters. | TUW | Entry |