Digitalia’s and OKF’s microhistory project were happy to hear that our workshop concept was accepted to the Digital Humanities i Norden 2018 seminar. The workshop is titled: “Miniature histories – Digitized newspapers and cultural heritage assets as source for the local history” . The workshops are organized before the conference, so this session is on 6.3.2018 in Helsinki. Please reserve your calendar.

Details about the session will be shared at the beginning of next year. Do note that also workshop participants need to register themselves to the seminar.  Things we will can try hands-on, based on participant interest, for example:

• searching and creating clippings from digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi
• utilizing page texts and capturing named entities from texts (for example using Finer tool) or tag clouds
• adding data to WikiMedia with correct attributions
• utilizing WikiMedia data in other systems (API, queries)

Let me know if you would like to do something specific with the digitized newspapers or if there are local history topics, which you are interested about. All ideas are welcomed – even if we cannot do everything in the workshop, we can work with them later on. We can think about some practical application prototypes that could be of interest for researchers and all.

Happy holidays for all, and see you in next year. 🙂

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