Georg Vogeler

Georg Vogeler is Professor of Digital Humanities at the Institute for Digital Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, University of Graz. He leads research in digital scholarly editing, digital diplomatics, and semantic technologies in humanities. He is also associated with the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he served as Scientific Director from 2018 to 2022.

• Professor, Center for Information Modeling, University of Graz (since 2016)
• Scientific Director, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (2018–2022)
• Member, Profile Area 'Dimensions of Europe', University of Graz
• Participant, Research Network 'Human Factor in Digital Transformation'

Georg Vogeler's research centers on the intersection of digital technologies and historical scholarship. His work emphasizes digital diplomatics, digital editing, and the application of semantic web technologies to medieval sources. He specializes in late medieval financial records and the administrative practices of Emperor Frederick II. His methodological focus includes information modeling and digital infrastructure for humanities scholarship.

The recent publications reflect a strong trend in rethinking traditional scholarly editing through digital methods. His work bridges historical auxiliary sciences with computational approaches, emphasizing structured data, distant reading, and machine-actionable editions. Keywords across his articles include digital humanities, medieval history, scholarly editing, and semantic modeling, with subfields such as text encoding, document analysis, and digital philology.

Scientific Awards:

• No awards explicitly listed.

Advising and Grants:

• Supervised Master’s thesis by Toni Büchel (University of Vienna, 2021–2022)
• Doctoral supervisor for Frederike Neuber (2017–2018)
• Principal Investigator, FWF-funded project 'The Reichstag of 1576' (2018–2022)
• Principal Investigator, EU-funded project 'From Digital to Distant Diplomatics' (2022–2026)
• Involved in international digital publishing infrastructure projects with Stanford and University of Virginia

Labs, Teams, and Research Groups:

Georg Vogeler is affiliated with the Center for Information Modeling at the University of Graz and has led major collaborative efforts in digital humanities. He participates in the 'Human Factor in Digital Transformation' research network and contributes to international initiatives such as the TEI Consortium, Biblissima, and COST-Action CA16204. He is a co-editor of key book series and serves on editorial boards, indicating strong integration into global digital humanities communities.