Local Offices
Our ”offices” are local nodes that offer an easy access to the national infrastructure. each node enjoys freedom to specialize according to its own interests. You can meet local DARIAH-FI representatives, plan collaborations for future projects, or simply ask guidance from a real human being.
The local node in the Aalto University is situated at the Department of Computer Science, Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo), that has affiliated members also at the Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) and Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH). Our focus is on developing and maintaining a national Linked Open Data (LOD) infrastructure and applications for Digital Humanities.
The local node at the University of Eastern Finland highlights interdisciplinary research and the use of digital methods in SSH research. Our profile area is societal big data. We have collected large-scale benchmark corpora of social media and developed methods for data-intensive analysis of digital social networks.
The University of Helsinki DARIAH node is distributed in diverse units in the city centre campus, with ample methodological expertise and curriculum development in digital humanities and social data science.
The University of Jyväskylä’s DARIAH node supports multidisciplinary research at the intersection of the humanities, social sciences, and digital technologies. It brings particular strengths on the use and analysis of multimodal data. The node is active in game studies, digital cultural heritage, and the processing and interpretation of archival materials.
The University of Oulu’s DARIAH node supports language-focused research across the social sciences and humanities, with strengths in corpus creation, language models, and digital tools. It also offers expertise in philosophical analysis of historical topics, historiography, visual cultural heritage, popular history, and philosophy of history. Its activities are coordinated by the Eudaimonia Centre for Multidisciplinary Research.
At Tampere University, the DARIAH local node is situated in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, where technology and the humanities come together in a unique way. Their research mission is to ensure socially responsible digitalisation and transformation of work. Particularly, the local node focuses on widening the user community of DARIAH, lowering the threshold of the RI and guaranteeing successful uses for researchers.
The University of Turku has a long tradition in developing digital language resources and language technology tools, in particular for Finnish. This DARIAH node is led by two research groups TurkuNLP and Turku Data Science group, known for providing state-of-the-art language technology, data analysis, and digital resources as well as curating them in particular for the humanities.
CSC – IT Center for Science is a national centre for IT expertise owned by the Finnish state and higher education institutions. CSC enables world-class data management and high-performance computing by providing resources and supporting computational ecosystems
The National Archives of Finland (NAF) preserves official documents from the central and regional government, various organizations, and private individuals, and makes them available for research. NAF provides data infrastructure services connected to their collections. Machine learning based applications are continuously developed at NAF for improving the use of archival collections in academic research.
The NLF is a cultural heritage organisation providing nationwide services to citizens, scientific communities and other operators. The NLF has as a particular mission to preserve, maintain and ensure access to Finland’s published heritage, including the Finnish audio recordings and games as well as internet and social media. Furthermore, the NLF hosts and develops several national-level digital infrastructures.