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Abstract
The paper documents the process of collecting, consolidating, and publishing epistolary metadata from Finnish cultural heritage organizations to create an archive for bottom-up analyses of 19th-century epistolary culture. We describe and discuss the data survey that was conducted to gather information about available letter collections across Finland, as well as the cleaning and harmonizing of over 350,000 letters from twelve different sources in various digital formats. We have also developed a data model that combines event-based and letter-based aspects of the metadata. Furthermore, the paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the initial phases of data-intensive research and the importance of discussing the labor of cleaning data. We believe that our experiences described in this paper can have wider significance for other digital humanities projects in Europe.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
MoE publication type | A4 Conference publication |
Event | Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries - Virtual, Online, Norway Duration: 8 Mar 2023 → 10 Mar 2023 Conference number: 7 |
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Constellations of Correspondence: Relational Study of Large and Small Networks of Letter Exchange in the Grand Duchy of Finland (CoCo)
Hyvönen, E. (Principal investigator)
01/09/2021 → 31/08/2025
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding