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Writing/Making History: Crowdsourcing at the Vienna City Library (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus)

Year: 2026

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In line with the participatory turn in the archival and library landscape, the Vienna City Library has collaborated with citizen scientists in several crowdsourcing projects since 2022 to transcribe and catalogue Vienna’s digitized heritage, thereby transforming the city’s memory into knowledge for future generations. Projects include three letter transcription campaigns (43,000+ items) and a 1930s playbills project tagging 20,000+ items with interoperable metadata. The knowledge generated is freely available to everyone. Results feed the Digital Library, enhancing accessibility and scholarly reuse in line with the Vienna City Library’s open-content strategy, the principles of digital humanism, and the City of Vienna’s overarching strategies.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21905023

Authors: Kühnert, Katrin, Fritze, Christiane

Institution: Vienna City Library

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7203786677

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