Austria-Forum

Austria-Forum is a freely accessible online collection of reference works in both German and English about Austria-related topics.

Austria-Forum
Type of site
Online database of Austrian culture
Available inGerman, partly also English
URLaustria-forum.org
Commercialno
Current statusActive

Background
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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 was acquired, including more images and also audio and video files, and AEIOU soon grew into a multimedia information system.

The title AEIOU—the "Annotatable Electronic Interactive Oesterreich Universal Information System"—is an allusion to the old Habsburg motto, A.E.I.O.U.. Suggestions for the improvements to articles can be made by reader; however, the aeiou Encyclopedia was not a wiki.

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