Austria-Forum is a freely accessible

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Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

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, with some articles in English, initiated by TU Graz. As of 2022, Austria-Forum has been integrated with NID-Library (Netinteractive Document Library).

Background

The predecessor of Austria-Forum, the AEIOU project was launched in 1996 by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research as part of Austria's millennial celebrations. The first mention of the name '' Ostarrîchi'', or Austria was in the year 996. The content was based on the German-language ''Österreich-Lexikon'', first published in a printed version in 1995. Additional material has been acquired, including additional images and audio and video files, allowing ''AEIOU'' to hrow into one of the first

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s pertaining to Austrian history, culture and politics. The title ''AEIOU''—the "Annotatable Electronic Interactive Oesterreich Universal Information System"—is an

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to the old

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motto, A.E.I.O.U. Suggestions for the improvements to articles can be made by reader; however, the ''aeiou Encyclopedia'' was not a

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Scope

Austria-Forum merged with a new technology, "Netinteractive Documents", which allows published texts to be annotated by readers, in NID-Library.com. The scope remains on issues of Austrian concern in a broad sense and includes open access versions of some key Austriaca publications, including historical primary texts, by e.g.

Franz Grillparzer Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who was considered to be the leading Austrian dramatist of the 19th century. His plays were and are frequently performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He ...

, Gerald Szyszkowitz, or

Ödön von Horvath Ödön is a male given name of Hungarian origin, since the 19th century Ödön became variant of Edmund. It may refer to: * Ödön Bárdi (1877–1958), actor * Ödön Batthyány-Strattmann (1826–1914) nobleman * Ödön Beöthy (1796–1854), p ...

. The collection includes recent secondary sources on Austriaca, such as Ute Degener's 2022 academic study on

Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors to write in German and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices ...

's aesthetics, Stefan Dollinger's 2021 monograph on Standard Austrian German, or Kurt Ifkovitz's 2018 edition of Hermann Bahr's correspondence with Arthur Schnitzler, 1891-1931.

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External links

* {{in lang, de Culture of Austria Austrian online encyclopedias Multilingual websites

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