PI: Prof. Hannu Salmi

The consortium Computational History and the Transformation of Public Discourse in Finland, 1640–1910 (funded by the Academy of Finland programme on Digital Humanities, 2016–2019) is based on the cooperation of four partners: The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki, the Departments of Cultural History and Future Technologies at the University of Turku and the Centre for Preservation and Digitisation of the National Library of Finland. This brings together relevant complementary expertise on the research subject (eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history), methodology (computational sciences and language technology) and data (the preservation and enhancement of digital resources). The objective of the consortium is to reassess the scope, nature, development, and transnational connections of public discourse in Finland, 1640–1910.

Selected publications

• Hannu Salmi, Petri Paju, Heli Rantala, Asko Nivala, Aleksi Vesanto, Filip Ginter: “The reuse of texts in Finnish newspapers and journals, 1771–1920: A digital humanities perspective”, Historical Methods Vol. 53 (2020), OPEN ACCESS.
• Aleksi Vesanto, Filip Ginter, Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala, Reetta Sippola, Heli Rantala, Petri Paju: Text Reuse in Finnish Newspapers and Journals, 1771–1920 database, http://comhis.fi/clusters.