Building on the Auden Musulin Papers project, Auden in Austria Digital (AAD) makes openly accessible all archival papers by, or related to, British-American poet W. H. Auden (1907–1973) in Austria through a scholarly digital edition, which will be a unique comprehensive resource for international Auden scholarship.

The project has the following main objectives: (1) making accessible hitherto unpublished literary papers including early versions of Auden’s late poetry, which will shed fresh light onto his practices of composition and revision; (2) processing new biographical information obtained from the documents (e.g. correspondence, legal papers, photographs), which will contribute to an alternative biographical cartography of Auden’s Austrian period 1958-1973 (including networks of artistic collaboration and social interaction); (3) spotlighting underexplored aspects of Austrian history after 1945, with a particular focus on queer history and neglected players in the Austrian literary scenes of the 1960s and 1970s; (4) rendering fully transparent scholarly research and interpretation both in human- and machine-readable formats—thus contributing to a vibrant current strand of research addressing uncertainty-aware data modelling in the Digital Humanities.