Österreichische Mediathek

As video and sound archive, the Österreichische Mediathek is responsible for the preservation of the Austrian audio-visual cultural heritage (with the exception of film on photographic carrier material and photography).

In order to preserve its collections, the Österreichische Mediathek specializes in digitisation and digital long-term archiving of audio and video material.

[2] The collections of the Österreichische Mediathek mainly cover the subject areas music, literature, history, politics and science.

The documents span the period from the 19th century to the present and include sound carriers such as instantaneous discs, shellac records, vinyl records, audio tapes, DAT cassettes, compact cassettes, CDs, DVDs, different video formats as well as various file formats.

Virtual exhibitions and online media databases are dedicated to various central subject areas: an acoustic chronicle illustrates Austrian history from 1900 to 2008, the web platform journale.at[4] provides the radio station [Ö1]’s sound radio journals from 1967 to 1999 in full length and the online archive “Österreich am Wort”[5] offers over 9000 sound recordings and videos on Austrian cultural history, also accessible online.