The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ACDH-CH ÖAW) is a new research institute which was set up with the declared intention of fostering digital methods in the various fields of the humanities. The ACDH-CH offers a wide range of services. It is running a repository for digital language resources, hosts and publishes data, develops software and works on a tightly knit web of specialised knowledge centres offering advice and guidance to the research community.