Local Offices

Aalto University

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.

CSC

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.

National Archives of Finland

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.

National Library of Finland

The NLF is a cultural heritage organisation providing nationwide services to citizens, scientific communities and other operators, with a particular mission to preserve and ensure access to Finland's published heritage.

Tampere University

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.

The Language Bank of Finland - Kielipankki

The Language Bank of Finland is a service for researchers using language resources across digital humanities and social sciences. The Language Bank has a wide variety of text and speech corpora and tools for studying them. The corpora can be analysed and processed with the Language Bank’s tools or downloaded. The Language Bank is coordinated by the national FIN-CLARIN consortium formed by Finnish universities and other research organisations. FIN-CLARIN is a part of the international CLARIN ERIC research infrastructure. FIN-CLARIN enables access to the whole CLARIN community’s language resources. Researchers and research groups can also agree with FIN-CLARIN upon depositing and distributing their own material.

University of Eastern Finland

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.

University of Helsinki

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.

University of Jyväskylä

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.

University of Oulu

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.

University of Turku

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.