Walter Scholger studied History and Applied Cultural Sciences in Graz (Austria) and Maynooth (Ireland). Having served as Deputy Director of the Center for Information Modeling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz (Austria) from 2008 to 2019, he now holds the position of institute manager, primarily dealing with administrative issues, project management and the coordination of the Centre’s teaching activities.
He is involved in several international projects focusing on legal aspects of academia and digitization, a member (and co-lead) of several working groups of DH umbrella organizations dedicated to DH curricula development (ADHO Digital Pedagogy SIG) and issues of digital publication (DHd Working Group “Digitales Publizieren”).
A veteran contributor to DARIAH-EU, he was one of the driving forces behind the “DH Course Registry” and has been active in several Working Groups, serving as Co-Lead of the “Training and Education” Working Group from 2013 to 2017 and the Working Group on “Ethics and Legality in Digital Arts and Humanities” since 2017. He has been serving as Deputy National Coordinator for Austria since January 2019 and currently, since March 2024, he is appointed National Coordinator for Austria. Walter also serves as the speaker of the CLARIAH-AT consortium, the national association for Austrian contributions to the CLARIN and DARIAH ERICs.
Impact case study
What did we do? Since its inception in 2019, the CLARIAH-AT consortium, representing the Austrian universities and research institutions which coordinate and drive Austrian activities related to the ESFRI research infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH, has rapidly built a reputation for excellence and cooperation. Based on the Digital Humanities Austria Strategy 2021+ envisioned by the consortium
