Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries

Vol. 7 No. 3 (2025): DHNB2024 Conference Post-Proceedings

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): DHNB2025 Conference Proceedings

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025): Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2024) workshop

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3 issues of our journal DHNB Publications have been published in March.

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Book cover of Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception by Maja Bak Herrie

Thinking Through Data by Maja Bak Herrie explores the historical context of the current data-driven paradigm and explains how elusive yet crucial statistical concepts such as outliers, aggregates, and patterns form how we sense and make sense of data. #ReadUP

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PhD students Mark Mets and Yan Asadchy in our genAI project also presented their recent research, on quantifying attention on Ukraine in social media, and analyzing image generation prompts for gender differences

#DHNB2025 Digital humanities in the Nordics and Baltics conference in Tartu is drawing to a close. Presented 2 posters, 1 myself on #AI-assisted communication management, another with Tallinn Uni colleagues in the AI grading project.

👨🏻‍🏫Today was the last day of the conference with a wonderful keynote on #CriticalAI by Meelis Kull, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Tartu. He is the head of the Estonian Centre of Excellence in AI.

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You can see the keynote here
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Our paper "MLLM-Assisted Information Extraction from Historical Documents" presented soon by Yunting Xie. doi.org/10.5617/dhnb... Another interesting session at DHNB 2025, this time with presentations about AI, visualisation and language. #DHNB2025 #DH #digitalhistory

Today at 11:30

👩🏻‍🏫Keynote by Dr. Andrea Kocsis, Chancellor's Fellow in Humanities Informatics and National Librarian’s Research Fellow in Digital Scholarship 2024-25 at the National Library of Scotland, contributing to making the UK Web Archive’s collections more accessible to wider audiences!

Greet by the DHNB Association chair @jiemakel.bsky.social. The essence of this conference is to come together overcome our shyness and meet researchers from different disciplines and cultural heritage organisations, something at the heart of #DHNB2025 already since its beginnings in 2016

💚💙💜 So glad to hear!

A great first day at @dhnb.bsky.social Jesper Enbom did a great presentation on the “grey divide”, I got lots of valuable feedback on my paper, got to play around at the museum and listen to great music! What’s not to love? ❤️ #dhnb2025

Anne Agersnap highlighting the relevance on integrating human expertise in computational studies or Human-In-The-Loop approach and demonstrating its use in studying conceptual history by the workgroup at the Grundtvig Study Centre of Aarhus University.

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Eero Hyvönen introducing the LetterSampo, Finnish letters data service and semantic portal, project work of processing the data, and making the data #fair, as well as the outlooks what could be done with well-organized and accessible data by combining metadata and content analysis.
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Discussing @dhnb.bsky.social how asking a question to a chatbot vs. a 'simple' google search generates ~ 10x more emissions and how this could be annotated on AI generated material?

Anyone looking for guidance in how to help students navigate content-generating AI should get the team from the DH institute at Riga Technical University to come and give their presentation 💪 @dhnb.bsky.social Huge applause from all assembled!

Thought-provoking take on AI-human collaboration: content is anonymous (/stolen?), like it was in the oral tradition, where content was generated anew at every performance. AI generates a new version with every page refresh.
Talk by Platonova, Smirnova, Seņko, Ivanova at @dhnb.bsky.social

Henna Poikkimäki presenting the results of project on correspondence networks in Finnish letter heritage, shifting focus from egocentric approach towards sociocentric ones. Nice graph on how much women and men send letters to each other.
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Maria Skeppstedt introducing Word Rain text #visualisation method that solves several flaws of wordcloud visualisation with thematic clustering and placement of words. See also the work groups fresh article in DHNB journal journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/arti...
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DHNB2025 Tartu conference 'Digital Dreams and Practices' rolling out smoothly with more than 200 participants from Nordic and Baltic countries and elsewhere. Two great days with workshops and tutorials are behind our back. Now three days of presentations ahead. #DHNB2025 #dhnb #dh

Maciej Eder stating some honest truths in his "Text analysis is easy, unless it is not" keynote address @dhnb.bsky.social: "humanists tend to overestimate numbers, plots and maps. Hard scientists tend to underestimate language variation" — It's a match... 💘

In the beautiful National Museum of Estonia in Tartu, 2h from Tallinn, for three days of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social 🧤

Welcome to the first day of the Conference! #dhnb2025

👨🏻‍🏫We start at 11:00 with keynote by Maciej Eder, director of the Institute of Polish Language (Polish Academy of Sciences), chair of the Committee of Linguistics at the Polish Academy of Sciences, PI of the project Computational Literary Studies

Part of Team 'Mapping Saints' is now in Tartu for #DHNB2025! Looking forward to a couple of interesting days full of DH. @dhnb.bsky.social

We're not only stateside this week: Transkribus community director @caromein.bsky.social gave an insightful workshop at #dhnb2025 in #Tartu yesterday, helping users get started with the platform.

Thanks to Carmen Kurg for the photos! @dhnb.bsky.social

Today at #DHNB2025 👇

Fascinating days ahead at DHNB 2025 in Tartu! Today's pre-conference programme includes a DH in Higher Edu workshop and a doctoral consortium about ongoing PhD work. Many of us from ALM and CDHU speaking at the conference.

Proceedings: journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/index

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Paper topics include e.g.: digital scholarly editing of Imperial Diet Records of the Holy Roman Empire, use of Latin and English in the Finnish Parliament, and conceptual historical studies on AI, Democracy, Terrorism. Many thanks to everyone who contributed!