Few Finnish teams, some of whom are also well known to the extended Digitalia research community, were well represented in the Transatlantic – Digging into Data challenge, where the aim was to find common lines of digital humanities research across nations across the pond. This kind of international collaboration can bring together new ideas and experienced researchers in new ways in how to utilize digitized materials in new ways.
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Oceanic Exchanges: Tracing Global Information Networks in Historical Newspaper Repositories, 1840-1914 (OcEx) is a team, where professor Hannu Salmi and his team from University of Turku is part of the 6 teams ranging from Mexico to Finland. Link to overview .
Mapping Manuscript Migrations: digging into data for the history and provenance of pre-modern European manuscripts is a team, where 4 teams from UK,US, France and Finland led by professor Eero Hyvönen will link disparate datasets together enabling researchers to do better analysis and visualisations.
In addition Okko Räsänen from Aalto University (Analyzing Child Language Experiences Around the World (ACLEW), link) and Peter Sarlin from Hanken School of Economics (Digging into High Frequency Data: Present and Future Risks and Opportunities (Atlantis), link) got funding to their collaborative projects.
So in 4 of 14 awards had Finnish presence at least in the application phase, but who knows if the approaches will extend even further as work continues. Good situation anyhow, which gives more opportunities for new kinds of research and collaboration.