Work Packages

The analysis of the Finnish public sphere (1640–1910) is based on a uniquely comprehensive combination of bibliographic metadata (WP1) and digitized full texts (WP2) over a consierable histrocial time span. Systematic large-scale analysis of these complementary sources is based on a flexible data-analytical ecosystem (WP3). This introdcues rreproducible research tools and a novel methodological framework in digital histroy, (Comhis plan, 2015).

In initial plan the original work packages have been divided as follows, during the research there might come some changes and adjustments.

WP1. Publishing trends and the development of public discourse (WP Leader : Prof. Mikko Tolonen)

WP1.1 Large-scale Analysis of Library Catalogue Metadata Collections

WP1.2 Intellectual Geography and Transcending of National Borders

WP2. Viral Texts and Social Networks of Finnish Public Discourse in Newspapers and Journals 1771–1910 (WP Leader: Prof. Hannu Salmi)

WP2.1 Improving the Quality of Newspaper Digital Archives

WP2.2 Virality of Newspaper and Journal Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Finland: Cultural Rhizomes and Social Networks

WP3. Data Analytical Ecosystem for Newspapers and Historical Document Collections (WP Leaders: Dr Kimmo Kettunen and Prof. Tapio Salakoski)

WP3.1 Quantitative Tools for Bibliographic Library Catalogue Metadata Collections and Finnish Book Production (1488–1910)

WP3.2 Machine Learning methods for text mining

WP3.3 Text reuse and Paraphrasing in Finnish Newspapers and Journals, 1771–1910

WP3.4 Open Source Statistical Workflow