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@matti-lamela.bsky.social

digital humanities, patent history, property rights, allemansrätten | associate professor in digital humanities (Uppsala University), 2025-2026 Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. https://www.katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N20-65

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The 30th anniversary anthology PDF is now published online:

Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

13.10.2025 06:58 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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My contribution with Matti La Mela (@matti-lamela.bsky.social) — ”What is Digital Humanities and what’s it doing in the department of ALM (Archives, Libraries, and Museums)”

25.09.2025 07:13 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Soon to be released (Oct 9): this gorgeous pink anthology

25.09.2025 07:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Wow, looks very nice. And thanks Amanda, it was
really great working on this with you!

25.09.2025 08:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
DHNB 2026 – DHNB

Call for Papers: DHNB 2026: Lost in Abundance – Encounters with the Non-Canonical (Aarhus 9-13/3/2026). Submission DL 15 October. Note also the (now) traditional doctoral consortium with bursaries!
dhnb.eu/conferences/... @dhnb.bsky.social #DH #digitalhumanities

24.09.2025 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations to CultureLab @psl-univ.bsky.social. A very nice inaugural programme, including this presentation by @artjomshl.bsky.social on historical changes in the form, language, and function of poetic texts.

22.09.2025 12:56 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to presenting at the #MetSem seminar 16/10: "Transnational and translational innovation: ML/AI for digitising and analysing historical patents and their language." This stems from my work as an @ieadeparis.bsky.social fellow and at uphg.se

12.09.2025 07:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

❗Today is the last day to nominate yourself for the upcoming EADH Executive Committee elections❗If you were a member of an AIUCD/DHNB/DHD/CZADH/EADH by 25 April, are interested in running & need help finding 2 members to support your nomination, please be in touch ASAP with elections@eadh.org!

28.05.2025 10:47 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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LetterSampo Finland is launched. The portal contains information on 1.3 million letters from the period of the Grand Duchy of Finland (1809-1917) aggregated from 17 cultural heritage organizations. LetterSampo allows to find letters, perform analyses and create visualizations kirjesampo.fi/en/

28.05.2025 12:43 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Membership | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities Become a direct member of the EADH or join one of its Associate Organizations. EADH's membership fees will be set at €34/£29/$45. Direct membership of the EADH can also be combined with a subscription...

EADH seeks to elect 4 new members to the Executive Committee. We encourage direct members & members of AOs (DHNB, CzADH, AIUCD, DhD) to self-nominate for these positions to better rep EADH/AO joint missions. To vote/nominate, must be member in good standing by 25 April (Friday!) eadh.org/membership

22.04.2025 09:13 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 3

🌐 Join us for the EADH Online Community Meeting!

Let’s reconnect, share updates, and explore exciting opportunities.

📅 When: Friday, 11 April 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 BST | 11:00 CEST | 12:00 EEST

📝 Register now: lnkd.in/d2XEg4F8
🌍 More info: eadh.org

Looking forward to shaping the future with you! 🚀

07.04.2025 08:21 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Great archives, and yes you're right, Savonlinna's market square is the best.

21.03.2025 07:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bravo! Enjoy the weekend :)

14.03.2025 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational History - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus, Aarhus University

We’ve got a #postdoc opening in #computationalhistory! 📜🖥️

Come join our team at the Center for Humanities Computing at Aarhus University and dive into the Danish Golden Age (1750–1930).

Great research, great colleagues, and a pretty nice city too 😊

🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

13.03.2025 13:21 — 👍 14    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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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

06.03.2025 07:15 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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!

04.03.2025 07:50 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025): Digital Parliamentary Data in Action (DiPaDA 2024) workshop | Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications

Fresh research on parliamentary history: Digital Parliamentary Data (DiPaDA 2024) workshop proceedings published

journals.uio.no/dhnbpub/issu...

#digitalhistory #DH #parliaments

04.03.2025 07:49 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
DHNB 2025 – DHNB

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

BoA: dhnb.eu/conferences/...

04.03.2025 07:39 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2025 Call for Chapter Submissions: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit to a collection of essays tentatively entitled Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition, to be edited by Melissa Terras, Paul Goodi…

Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.

22.01.2025 18:15 — 👍 36    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 3
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Post doc -poolin haku avoinna 1.–31.1.2025 - Tiedeakatemia Poolin myöntämät apurahat on tarkoitettu vähintään yhden lukuvuoden ajaksi ulkomaille lähteville, hiljattain väitelleille tutkijoille.


Post doc -poolin haku avoinna 1.–31.1.2025

Säätiöt ja rahastot ry:n jäsensäätiöiden perustama apurahavaranto. Poolin myöntämät apurahat on tarkoitettu Suomesta vähintään yhden lukuvuoden ajaksi ulkomaille lähteville, hiljattain väitelleille tutkijoille.

acadsci.fi/apurahat-ja-...

14.01.2025 07:25 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Päätoimittaja, Kelan historiateos Päätoimittaja, Kelan historiateos

Historioitsijakollegat, hakekaa!

19.12.2024 09:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Artificial Intelligence-School of Information Sciences The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois invites applications from qualified individuals for 100% full-time Tenure-Track Facul...

Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS

11.12.2024 20:34 — 👍 69    🔁 58    💬 1    📌 0
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Ankarat ajat - Gaudeamus Ankarat ajat -teoksessa nimekäs kirjoittajakunta tarkastelee suomalaisten talouskriisien historiaa. Tilaa kirja Gaudeamuksen verkkokaupasta.

Uusi kirjamme koskien Suomen talouskriisejä, kannattaa tutustua! www.gaudeamus.fi/teos/ankarat...
#talous #kriisit #suomi

06.12.2024 18:08 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Our new paper (OA) on historical patent families: how to construct them and apply them in studying value and identifying key technologies of the past. doi.org/10.1016/j.ee... #econhist #patents #innovation

16.10.2024 16:03 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
DHNB 2025 – DHNB

📍 DHNB2025 has a new Doctoral Consortium track! Here, doctoral students can present their ongoing studies, and get mentored by more experienced scholars.

DHNB will provide up to six bursaries to cover reasonable travel and accommodation costs (up to 500€) for participating.

05.10.2024 13:07 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
DHNB 2025 – DHNB

Call for papers: DHNB2025 conference 'Digital Dreams and Practices' (5-7/03/2025, Tartu, Estonia)
dhnb.eu/conferences/...

Note the Doctoral Consortium track for doctoral students to get feedback on their work in #digitalhumanities. Bursaries available.

02.10.2024 06:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The CFP for ADHO Digital Humanities 2025 at NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal) is now open. Don't miss the opportunity to present your work 💻and to visit the sunny Lisbon city 🌇 !

+ info: dh2025.adho.org/call-for-pro...

23.09.2024 10:56 — 👍 17    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1
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Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities

Hey! I have a four-year post-doc position in computer science or #digitalhumanities open in my ERC CoG project, which focuses on the multimodality of human communication.

I'm looking for someone with experience in information retrieval / knowledge graphs. Details ⤵️

jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/3...

16.09.2024 09:06 — 👍 2    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

😀 useful code

05.08.2024 08:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This will be a stellar workshop for #histtech #histsci #envhist #envhum etc people. The organizers are truly excellent and the Stavanger weather in December could be a great opportunity to discuss weathering!

05.06.2024 05:56 — 👍 10    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

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