Walter Koch

From 1979 to 1983, during the first period of our activities, AIT successfully developed software for production automation: SAMIS, the Sawmill Management Information System. After that, the company specialised more and more in the field of information processing and the development of information systems. Since the late 1990s, many of our research projects have focussed on the development of comprehensive IT solutions and portals for the cultural heritage sector (MLA – Museums, Libraries and Archives). We have been a partner of the European Digital Library, Europeana, since 2008 and took over the function of an aggregator of cultural, digital data from Austria for Europeana after the launch of the Europeana portal in late autumn 2008. Since 2011, we have also been operating the European service centre for natural history data (and manage more than 13 million items of data for natural history museums, research centres and botanical gardens throughout Europe) Since 2015, we have also been intensively involved in technical research in the medical field and have specialised in simulation solutions for the ear, nose and throat area.