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Digitising a corpus of Austrian dialect recordings from the 20th century
The Corpus of Austrian Dialect Recordings from the 20th Century comprises 2442 dialect recordings from the Phonogrammarchiv’s holdings on magnetic tape from fieldwork conducted in the years 1951 to 1995 by German philologists Eberhard Kranzmayer, Maria Hornung, Werner Bauer, Herbert Tatzreiter and others. They cover all provinces of Austria as well as linguistic varieties of German spoken in Northern Italy, Hungary and former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. In a project cooperation of the Phonogrammarchiv with the Research Department “Variation and Change of German in Austria” (both Austrian Academy of Sciences) and the Austrian Science Fund Special Research Programme “German in Austria” (F60), these recordings are now digitised, annotated and analysed, and will be made searchable in a database. In this article we introduce and discuss the corpus and address various digitisation and metadata-related issues with special attention to real-world questions and problems encountered