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Walter studied History and Applied Cultural Sciences in Graz (Austria) and Maynooth (Ireland). He served as the Deputy Director of the Center for Information Modeling – Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz (Austria) from 2008 to 2019, and continues to deal with administrative issues, project management and the coordination of the Centre’s teaching activities. He is involved in several international projects and member (and co-lead) of several working groups of DH umbrella organizations focusing on legal aspects of academia and digitisation (e.g. CLARIN Legal Issues Committee) and DH curricula development (e.g. ADHO Digital Pedagogy SIG), and has given numerous international workshops on IPR, licensing and data protection in recent years. A veteran contributor to DARIAH-EU, he was one of the driving forces behind the “DH Course Registry” and has been active in several Working Groups, serving as Co-Lead of the “Training and Education” Working Group from 2013 to 2017 and the Working Group on “Ethics and Legality in Digital Arts and Humanities” (ELDAH) since 2017. In January 2019, he was appointed Deputy National Coordinator for CLARIAH Austria.