Converting cultural heritage into digital form opens up new possibilities in terms of scale, arrangement, and linking of data, which can lead to novel insights into the past. From digital data, we can distill temporal dynamics, repetitions, connections, and continuums of similarities, and analyse them in various ways. This workshop addresses the potentialities and possible pitfalls of computationally examining digitised cultural heritage materials, with examples of exemplary digital collection interfaces and the latest methodological approaches applied in historical research. We ask, what are the best ways of representing digital archives to enable users to grasp meaningful parts of them, and how can we create connections between related archives? 

Location: online 

Date: Friday September 19, 2025 

Schedule (East European Time zone) 

14:00 – 14:05 Welcome and Introduction, Merit Maran 

14:05 – 14:35 Revisiting Cultural Heritage Collections: A Benchmark View on Data Visualization, Speaker: Hannu Salmi 

14:35 – 14:45 Break 

14:45 – 15:15 Visualizing the Lotman-Mints Digital Archive with AI, Speaker: Mila Oiva 

15:15 – 15:45 Discussion, Moderator: Petri Paju  

Registration: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/EP/C362817480107B8A   

For more information, see the news article: Online Workshop Series Organised by Turku University: New Trends in Digital Culture Studies.