The idea is to meet, talk, have pizza together and listen to a presentation on DH research-in-progress or project by a participant.
The meetings are held on Fridays at 12.00–13+ (Helsinki time) at Aalto University (Room 1593, Maarintie 8). It is possible to attend the seminar also via zoom (
Please register yourself for the seminar (for the pizza catering) at
The meetings in spring 2023:
14.4.2023 Hanna-Mari Kupari (University of Turku): Towards machine readable linguistic resources for Medieval Latin – from non-structured editions to automatic parsing.
12.5.2023 Annastiina Ahola (Aalto University): OperaSampo – Opera and Music Theatre Performances in Finland 1830–1960.
Warmly welcome!
Presentation proposals or joining the mailing list:
If you want propose a project or paper to be presented at the seminar or want to join the mailing list of the seminar, please contact
Past meetings:
The DH pizza seminar has met since autumn 2017, when it was launched at Aalto University by Mats Fridlund and Matti La Mela for bringing together researchers interested in digital humanities and digital research. The seminar has received funding from Aalto Digi Platform.
Autumn 2022
30.9.2022 Mikko Koho (Aalto University), Matti La Mela (University of Helsinki, Uppsala University), Laura Sinikallio (University of Helsinki): ParliamentSampo – Parliament of Finland on the Semantic Web.
28.10.2022 Henna Paakki (Aalto University): From conversation analysis to computational interaction analysis: Studying trolling behavior in online conversations by focusing on (a)symmetry in interaction.
11.11.2022 Risto Turunen (University of Helsinki): DARIAH-FI: How to Build Better Research Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Finland.
9.12.2022 Annastiina Ahola (Aalto University), Telma Peura (Aalto University, University of Helsinki): BookSampo - Finnish Fiction Literature on the Semantic Web.
Spring 2022
28.1.2022 Ilona Pikkanen (Finnish Literature Society), Mikko Koho (Aalto University), and Petri Leskinen (University of Helsinki): Constellations of Correspondence (CoCo). Large and Small Networks of Epistolary Exchange in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
8.2.2022 Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki): New comparative methodology for researching language change in contact ecologies. See
11.3.2022 Mietta Lennes (University of Helsinki): Puhelahjat tutkimuskäyttöön! Tutkijoiden mahdollisuudet Lahjoita puhetta -kampanjassa kerätyn aineiston hyödyntämiseen (in Finnish). More information at
5.4.2022 Tamas Grosz (Aalto University), Harri Kiiskinen (University of Turku), Mikko Kurimo (Aalto University), Jorma Laaksonen (Aalto University) & Hannu Salmi (University of Turku): "Movie Making Finland: Finnish fiction films as audiovisual big data, 1907–2017 (MoMaF)". See
6.5.2022 Pyry Kantanen and Leo Lahti (University of Turku): rOpengov project: a community of R package developers on open government data analytics.
Spring 2021
19.2.2021
12.3.2021
9.4.2021
21.5.2021
Autumn 2020
16.10.2020
6.11.2020
20.11.2020
4.12.2020
18.12.2020
Spring 2020
24.1.2020 Jarmo Peltola (Tampere University), Sakari Saaritsa, Henri Mikkola (University of Helsinki):
7.2.2020 Ilkka Jokipii (University of Helsinki) & Heikki Rantala (Aalto University):
21.2.2020 Matias Frosterus (National Library of Finland):
28.2.2020 Riikka Koulu (University of Helsinki):
6.3.2020 Kari Jalonen (Aalto University):
Autumn 2019
20.9.2019 Heta Aali, Mila Oiva (University of Turku):
4.10.2019 Dorota Glowacka, Alan Medlar (University of Helsinki):
18.10.2019 Elisa Mekler (Aalto SCI):
1.11.2019 Mikko Kurimo (Aalto ELEC):
22.11.2019 Mika Hämäläinen, Khalid Alnajjar (University of Helsinki): Modelling the Socialization of Creative Agents in a Master-Apprentice Setting
29.11.2019 Ville Rohiola (Finnish Heritage Agency), Pejam Hassanzadeh (Aalto SCI): FindSampo: A Citizen Science Platform for reporting and studying Archaeological Finds on the Semantic Web
13.12.2019 Neha Sayed (Aalto ARTS):
Spring 2019
30.1.2019 Eero Aalto, Zeerim Cheung, Robin Gustafsson (Aalto SCI): Asymmetric regulation, managerial discretion, and corporate political strategies
6.2.2019 Samir Bhowmik (Aalto ARTS):
15.2.2019 Marko Turpeinen (Aalto SCI): Digital Ethics and MyData
1.3.2019 Osma Suominen (NLF): Annif and automated indexing (
13.3.2019 “Bring your tools, discuss your data”. Introduction by Kati Katajisto (UH) on using Zotero
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29.3.2019 Arttu Oksanen (Edita), Sami Sarsa (Aalto SCI):
12.4.2019 Aaro Sahari (National Museum of Finland): The second battle of Ruotsinsalmi 1790 – re-imagining, representing, and sharing historical conflicts in digital history
26.4.2019 Tuukka Hastrup, Mikko Rinne, Susanna Ånäs: Wikidocumentaries - wiki for small history
3.5.2019
Autumn 2018
3.10.2018 Petri Kuosmanen (Aalto ENG), Digital twin
10.10.2018 Minna Tamper (Aalto SCI), Using Biographical Texts as Linked Data for Prosopographical Research and Applications
24.10.2018 Mark Granroth-Wilding (University of Helsinki): NewsEye project and AI research assistant
1.11.2018 Maria Kallio (National Archives), Transkribus and handwritten text recognition
21.11.2018 Ville Kivimäki (Aalto ENG), Dynamic Feedback System, Supporting understanding of students’ learning via visual self-assessment
28.11.2018 Petri Paju (Aalto ENG), Mila Oiva (University of Turku), Digital History in Finland: from collaboration to publishing
5.12.2018 Kimmo Kettunen (University of Helsinki), FiST - Using Semantic Tagging for Analysis of Written Finnish Digital Documents
19.12.2018 Antti Härkönen (University of Eastern Finland), Historical GIS of Vyborg
Spring 2018
10.1.2018 Tove Ørsted (Aalto ENG), GLAM & Open Culture
17.1.2018 Kirsi Virrantaus (Aalto ENG), Geoinformatics
24.1.2018 Eero Aalto (Aalto SCI), The Consortium ’Digital History of Telco and Exchanges in Finland and Sweden'
31.1.2018 Minna Tamper (Aalto SCI), Usage and applications of named entity linking (NEL)
7.2.2018 Urszula Pawlicka (Aalto ARTS), Mapping the Humanities and Media Labs
14.2.2018 Kimmo Kettunen (NLF), Digitized historical newspapers and named entities
28.2.2018 Jessica Parland-von Essen (CSC), Get the most out of your data! Data publication, tracking and citation
14.3.2018 Matti La Mela (Aalto ENG), Digitized historical newspapers and text mining
21.3.2018 Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki), COMHIS Helsinki Computational History Group
28.3.2018 Mikko Kivelä (Aalto SCI), Network science and social network research
11.4.2018 Anu Lahtinen & Maiju Wuokko (University of Helsinki), Ad fontes – a digital leap in teaching history
18.4.2018 Goki Miyakita (Aalto SCI), Design research in DH—a case study from Japan: redesigning pre-modern Japanese books in the digital age
25.4.2018 Maarit Olkkola (Aalto ECON), Digitizing and using historical (quantitative) administrative data. The Case of Public Health Policies
2.5.2018 Petri Paju (Aalto ENG), The evolution of IT use by a field of research. Case: (digital) history
9.5.2018 Susanna Ånäs (OKFI), Wikidocumentaries – Recycling, creatively reusing and collaborative enriching historical documents from public and private archives through an open platform
16.5.2018 Ari Apilo (Parliament of Finland), Digitization of parliamentary documents
29.5.2018 Aalto DH seminar goes Hackathon!
Autumn 2017
15.11.2017 Mats Fridlund (Aalto ENG), Introduction
22.11.2017 Mila Oiva (Aalto ENG), DH Centres and their practices
29.11.2017 Lily Díaz (Aalto ARTS), Systems of representations research group, digital cultural heritage
13.12.2017 Jouni Tuominen (Aalto SCI), Semantic Computing research group, Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities