For a comprehensive list of COMHIS publications, see our page on the University of Helsinki research portal. COMHIS-related projects and selected articles are listed below. COMHIS is committed to the principles of open science. When possible, we release the datasets and code used for our research projects.
COMHIS is involved in several projects representing different areas of expertise. These projects include:
Hill, M. J. & Hengchen, S. (2019). Quantifying the impact of dirty OCR on historical text analysis: Eighteenth Century Collections Online as a case study. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. https://academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/llc/fqz024/5476122
Hill, M. J., Vaara, V., Säily, T., Lahti, L., & Tolonen, M. (2019). Reconstructing Intellectual Networks: From the ESTC’s bibliographic metadata to historical material. In: Navarretta, C., Agirrezabal, M. and Maegaard, B. (eds.). Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 4th Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 5–8, 2019. Aachen: CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 2364: 201-219. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2364/19_paper.pdf [Best paper award]
Kurunmäki, J. & Marjanen, J. (2018). A Rhetorical View of Isms: An Introduction. Journal of Political Ideologies, 23(3): 241-255. DOI:10.1080/13569317.2018.1502939
Lahti, L., Marjanen, J., Roivainen, H., & Tolonen, M. (2019). Bibliographic Data Science and the History of the Book (c. 1500–1800). Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 57(1): 5–23. DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2018.1543747
Mäkelä, E., Tolonen, M., Marjanen, J., Kanner, A., Vaara, V., & Lahti, L. (2019). Interdisciplinary collaboration in studying newspaper materiality. In: Krauwer, S. and Fišer, D. (eds.). Proceedings of the Twin Talks Workshop, co-located with Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN 2019). Aachen: CEUR Workshop Proceedings vol. 2365: 55–66. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2365/07-TwinTalks-DHN2019_paper_7.pdf
Marjanen, J., Vaara, V., Kanner, A., Roivainen, H., Mäkelä, E., Lahti, L., & Tolonen, M. (2019). A National Public Sphere? Analyzing the Language, Location, and Form of Newspapers in Finland, 1771–1917. Journal of European Periodical Studies, 4(1): 54–77. DOI: 10.21825/jeps.v4i1.10483
Tolonen, M., Lahti, L., Roivainen, H., & Marjanen, J. (2019). A Quantitative Approach to Book-Printing in Sweden and Finland, 1640–1828. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 52(1): 57-78. DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2018.1526657