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. 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. Signifcant work includes a multicentury hand-written text recognition model as well as several AI-based improvements in digitization. NAF also offers several thematic databases, where data from archival sources is transformed and shared in easy-to-use data format.