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Digital craftsmanship from research,
for everyone who works with knowledge.

Training, consulting and research software around generative AI. For universities, cultural institutions, companies and public administration.

What we do See our work

Services

What we do.

Excellence

AI Workshops & Training

Context engineering, AI literacy and agentic engineering for research, culture and business. As a keynote, hands-on workshop or multi-day school.

Excellence

AI Consulting & Co-Intelligence

AI strategy and applied generative AI for institutions: Promptotyping, agentic systems and workflows that amplify expertise instead of replacing it.

Excellence

Teaching, Schools & Curricula

We teach at universities across Europe and help shape curricula. And we run schools in every season: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

Development

Research Software & Digital Editions

Web interfaces, dashboards and digital editions for research projects, compatible with Linked Open Data whenever possible. Long-term preservation included, in cooperation with the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Graz and its certified, OAIS-compliant repository GAMS.

Development

Data Modeling & AI-Assisted Digitization

TEI, RDF and schema development plus AI-assisted OCR/HTR pipelines that turn manuscripts into structured, reusable data.

Development

Research Project Partnership

DHCraft as project partner: consortium partner in funded projects of any kind, plus proposal support and the digital component of your research project.

Selected work

A selection of our work.

MHDBDB

University of Salzburg

The Middle High German Conceptual Database on a new foundation: 667 TEI texts, semantic search and an open data infrastructure.

Stefan Zweig Digital

Literature Archive Salzburg

Digital archive and ongoing expansion of the platform.

Fortunoff Video Archive

Yale University

More than 4,400 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, recorded since 1979. Consulting, support and further development of the archive's DH tools.

CROWN

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Data modeling and web development for the study of the Vienna Imperial Crown.

Ružake gila

mdw Wien · MMRC

Custom Omeka S theme, consulting and support.

DEPCHA

University of Graz · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Bookkeeping ontology and publishing platform for historical account books, grown out of Christopher's doctoral research.

More projects on GitHub →

Partners & clients

Institutions that trust us.

Team

The team.

Christian Steiner

Founder / CEO

Master's degree in translation/interpreting and Digital Humanities. At the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz since 2012, now fully dedicated to DH Craft.

E-Mail chsteiner.github.io

Dr. Christopher Pollin

Founder / CEO

Doctoral degree in Digital Humanities, master's degree in History. At the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz since 2016, now fully dedicated to DH Craft.

E-Mail chpollin.github.io

Excellence

Training and AI consulting.

Excellence is our area for generative AI: webinars, workshops and intensive days, plus consulting and Promptotyping, for research, culture and business.

60–90 minutes