Digital Humanities early career välipala is a regular event for early career humanities and social sciences researchers. It offers a free form opportunity to discuss and share experiences of digita…

DARIAH-Campus learning platform has just been updated with new educational videos by digital humanities and social science researchers, projects and infrastructure developers in Finland. This publication extends the outreach of an existing video library used as a teaching resource for BA Course Introduction to Helsinki Digital Humanities and Social Science at the University of Helsinki. DARIAH-Campus is a discovery framework and hosting platform for learning resources aimed at different profiles: students, teachers or researchers interested in incorporating digital humanities methods and digital scholarship in their practice.

DARIAH-CH, a member of the DARIAH network, and its national partners in Switzerland have announced the DARIAH-CH Training Series 2026–2027, a new programme of online training sessions designed to introduce researchers to the methods, tools, and good practices that are shaping digital scholarship in the arts and humanities. A programme of 11 online sessions is aimed primarily at early-career researchers, doctoral candidates, master’s students, and anyone new to Digital Humanities…

After a well deserved summer break, we are returning with some learning opportunities. Here are a few resources featured in DARIAH-EU's training campaign during the summer months. Text Mining YouTube Comment Data with Wordfish in R A lesson by Alex Wermer-Colan, Nicole Lemire Garlic and Jeff Antsen introducing readers to a method for conducting research on internet discourse by performing data analysis on comments posted under YouTube videos by viewers.

Are you using R but wondering if your R code makes the best use of the computing resources available? Would you like to learn to speed up R analyses by parallel computing, identify bottlenecks in your...

CSC’s new national supercomputer Roihu has been opened for general use, significantly increasing the national scientific computing capacity available in Finland. This brings numerous changes: for example, the copy of the open newspapers and journals dataset from the National Library of Finland has been moved to Roihu, and the adoption of the next-generation system means that the previous-generation machines Puhti and Mahti will be decommissioned.

The summer edition of the FIN-CLARIAH traveling seminar married historical and contemporary phenomena by featuring methods for researching communities and their interactions. The DARIAH-FI node at UEF hosted some 25 FIN-CLARIAH partners and local researchers to a night-less encounter in Joensuu on June 11-12. This blog recollects a handful of talks summarizing starting points, methods and tricks to untangle complex and hidden subjects with aid of traces found in diverse written records and forms of communication. 

The FIN-CLARIAH Summer meeting takes place in Joensuu on 11 and 12 June, 2026. This year’s program brings together thematic plenary sessions and dedicated time to share ongoing work across the cons…

How will I capture this moment? Multiple times I have asked myself this question. As ethnographer I have witnessed emotional moments. While doing fieldwork in a history class, students closed a month-long review to Europe's colonial history with several minutes of silence; "kids are struggling with this, all are looking at their desks, faces look as if they were having trouble swallowing or stomach ache" is jotted in my field diary.

Solving the IIIF-puzzle – Images in Dialogue Helsinki Showcase Program Join us to hear about the experiences of the Finnish International Image Interoperability Frameworkin (IIIF) (ope…

Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon starts today at the University of Helsinki. This 10-day event brings together students and researchers in the humanities, social sciences and computer science to collaborate in a DH project from start to finish. A public presentation of the projects will take place on 29 May 2026. This year, the 5 groups will focus on newspapers, parliamentary data, companies and legislation, bibliographical data and oral poetry.

This event invites digital humanities and social science researchers, projects and infrastructure developers in Finland to an introduction to DARIAH Campus. In this workshop participants will find …

This guest lecture with Visiting Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern University) excavates and explores a cultural, religious and political consensus that appears to unite the US and Isr…

This presentation by Feeza Vasudeva (Academy Research Fellow at the Study of Religions, University of Helsinki) introduces a concept of synthetic sacred – a configuration in which generative system…

Helsinki Di­gital Hu­man­it­ies Hack­a­thon #DH­H26 | 20.–29.5.2026

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In this report we gather important references to tools and use cases that illustrate Terminology work as a resource for improving visibility of research outputs and to produce reliable data-analysis tools. These were recently introduced to a small but interested live-audience at Aalto University. Precisely Aalto was chosen for this event, as it is the first university in Finland to introduce…

“From Data to Intelligence: a FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow”  This Roadshow event at Aalto University showcases scientific terminology work supporting researchers with the new language recommendations now b…

We are glad to introduce this month a recently created DARIAH-FI library The point of departure of this library is a cumulative publications aggregated since in 2022 DARIAH-FI started operations. In this virtual library one can find publications that explain a resource, data publications and guidelines to DARIAH-FI tools. This library is maintained by the network partners and will be continuously updated whenever…

Digital Humanities Early-Career Välipala is a regular event for early career humanities and social sciences researchers. It offers a free form opportunity to discuss and share experiences of digita…

In this blog, we bring news about new infrastructure developed in the past two years by the DARIAH-FI network for acquiring and processing large-scale, visual and multimodal historical documents. These infrastructures were unveiled during a full-day workshop on January 22nd with 70 participants. The tools have been developed based on what humanities researchers need when working with archival materials and visual cultural heritage, enabling the acquisition and making the most of large-scale data in the…

Brown Bag Seminar meetings every Wednesday.

The proliferation of short-form video on livestreaming platforms like Twitch presents a significant challenge for multimodal content analysis. Each clip contains a vast amount of diverse informatio…

Organisers: Inés Matres (University of Helsinki), Ida Toivanen (University of Jyväskylä), and Ilkka Lähteenmäki (University of Oulu) Date: 22 January 2026, Online, Full-day with breaks The workshop…

On November 28, the Centre for Social Data Science (CSDS) at the University of Helsinki hosted this milestone meeting to support FIN-CLARIAH in developing national infrastructure for digital social sciences. The event focused on current practices in annotating datasets in across disciplines interested in qualitative data, narrative analysis, secure practices for sensitive data, and the responsible use of AI tools in the annotation pipeline.

FAIR Science Café is a informal and interactive online event where researchers get to talk about their work, research, and results in their own words. The discussion also highlights the data used, …

A major Finnish research project “Constellations of Correspondence 2022-2025 (CoCo)” by the Finnish Literature Society (SKS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG), and Aalto University, Department of Computer Science, has now been finalized, based on collections of 16 Finnish Cultural Heritage organizations, over 1600 fonds, and four earlier online critical editions of prominent Finns (A. Edelfelt, E. Lönnrot, J.

The eve of the DARIAH Annual event was dedicated to working groups that act as research networks across Europe for diverse fields. Working groups are the main mechanism to benefit from the DARIAH ERIC, both financially and by enabling collaboration among infrastructure-oriented SSH scholars and experts. As the main theme of this year’s Annual event was “The past”, in this post from the…