FIN-CLARIAH day – Digital cultural heritage… Data or Metadata?

The Fall plenary brought the whole infrastructure to reflect about metadata, what is it in diverse fields and how to make it fit-for-research. On November 22nd the FIN-CLARIAH consortium assembled 41 representatives from six universities, the National Library and Archives…

Calling researchers working on social media data!

Survey on the current state of research using social media data in Finland. In order to advance analytical support for researchers, our partners in Joensuu (UEF), have launched a survey collecting information on the current state of research using social…

Finland at the DARIAH Annual event in Lisbon 18-21 June 2024

Report on the highlights of the DARIAH Annual event that gathered European representatives from DH, arts and humanities scholars, to university libraries and infrastructure providers under the them of digital research workflows. Off we went to warm and hilly Lisbon…

FIN-CLARIAH day – Consotium brainstorms AI implementation

On the first FIN-CLARIAH plenary this season the whole infrastructure reflected on how SSH research will be affected by AI and introduced what they will deliver by the end of 2025. The partners of DARIAH-FI and FIN-CLARIN (The language bank…

Helsinki DH Hackathon – a summary

Here is a review to the past week’s DH Hackathon in Helsinki, with the main take-outs on each of the projects. Last week I witnessed my first, and overall the 9th edition of the traditional Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon. This…

FinnSurveyText: Tool for open-ended survey questions in Finnish

The makers of FinnSurveyText introduce the resource through a demo guide and describe the process of creating an open-source tool for research. Finnsurveytext is an R package that has been created to help social science and humanities researchers analyse and…