.digital office - facilitating and encouraging digitalization!

The .digital office coordinates the implementation process of the digitalization strategy and is responsible for facilitating and designing implementation measures and specific digitalization projects. In doing so, the .digital office supports the institutes and departments in the implementation of these projects and ensures the interconnecting of existing digital competences at TU Wien in order to avoid redundancies and to ensure cost efficiency.

Digital Survival Café

[Translate to English:] Hängebrücke, Jungel

Take part in the Digital Survival Café and geht yourself connected you with contact persons for all digital issues at TU Wien! Every second Thursday, experts answer your questions on topics related to collaboration, digitalization, web presence, information security and much more. Topics and dates are kept up to date at TU coLAB, opens an external URL in a new window.

Digitalization projects

[Translate to English:] Digitalzation projects at TU Wien

The .digital office coordinates, supports and connects various projects within the scope of the digitalization strategy.

Objectives of the digital transformation

Digitalisation Objectives

TU Wien's digitalization strategy  has defined objectives in the areas of research, studying and teaching, administration and infrastructure which are to be realized. These objectives can be condensed into a number of core topics: digital skills, smart campus, data, analytics & prediction as well as platforms and networks.

Collaboration

[Translate to English:] collaboration

Digital tools can be used to make working together with colleagues and in teams a lot simpler. At TU Wien, various new services are currently developed to facilitate collaboration even more.

Events

[Translate to English:] Information update events

.digital roadshow and .digital updates - jointly designing the digital transformation

Team

[Translate to English:] .digital office team

You can find your contact persons at the .digital office here

Current .dblog posts

The .digital blog offers posts on interesting topics on digitalization matters in general and the digital transformation at TU Wien in particular:

Infrastructure for the fully-digitalized course: .dcall project JaaS

Tutors and students on a technical course are often faced with working with large quantities of data. It must be possible for this data to be edited and visualised. This is where JaaS is breaking new ground, which could prove interesting for all faculties at TU Wien.

[Translate to English:] Jupyter as a Service

Jupyter Notebooks are digital documents that can be accessed in a web browser without needing to install any special software and consist of a combination of executable program code, interactive comparisons, data visualisations and explanatory texts. The applications include data cleansing and transformation, numeric simulation, statistical modelling, data visualisation, machine learning, and much more. Novices and professionals alike enjoy an easy-to-operate digital working environment for these applications, ideal for analysing, experimenting and particularly learning. Little wonder then that Jupyter Notebooks are a preferred tool in teaching.

Easy access, reliable infrastructure

Using Jupyter Notebooks should thus be made as easy as possible for teaching staff and students, so that the focus is on interactive teaching and learning, rather than on installing and mastering Jupyter. The infrastructure for access with as low a threshold as possible and secure and reliable operation of Jupyter are key themes in the "Jupyter as a Service" .dcall project. As a result, TU.it is working in close cooperation with a number of TU institutes to build a suitably efficient infrastructure. Teaching staff can then construct their environment for students in self-service via TUWEL and cover various scenarios.

Pilot phase starting soon

Work has already begun in the winter semester of 2020 with an initial substantial pilot project in the Geodesy department. The "Introduction to programming I for geodesy, geo-information and environmental engineering" course is being delivered by the department's course director, Gottfried Mandlburger, to a huge number of more than 200 students for the first time. The new Jupyter service will play a central role in the innovative course design. The experiences and developments obtained as part of this project should then also benefit other TU Wien faculties for similarly stored courses.