HELDIG solicits collaborations with other major related centers in Helsinki capital area, such as the Helsinki Centre for Data Science (HiDATA), Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI), and Helsinki Institute for Information Technologies (HIIT). HELDIG also advances several other strengths and initiatives at UH and beyond in the areas of natural language processing, computer aided linguistics, research on social and psychological aspects of digitalization, quantitative social sciences, digitized cultural heritage, and artificial intelligence. At HELDIG, eight new tenure track professor positions in DH related fields have been established in the participating six faculties within UH. The starting phase 2016–2020 of the center, with a budget of about 10M€, is supported by the Academy of Finland as part of special national profiling actions that aim at redirecting research and education in Finland on a national level. HELDIG was established in 2016 at the University of Helsinki (UH) as a joint effort by six faculties, i.e., the faculties of Arts (coordinator), Educational Sciences, Law, Science, Social Science, and Theology. The goal is to form an ecosystem that fosters collaboration between academic research groups, memory organizations, companies, and the general public. The Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities (HELDIG) aims to build a research network and infrastructure for solving research problems in the humanities and social sciences with novel computational methods, and for studying digitalization as a phenomenon. These developments create a growing need for novel research and education in the emerging multidisciplinary field of Digital Humanities (DH). Digitalization provides ever more new research opportunities in the humanities and social sciences, and rapidly changes ways in which research is done. The digital world with its digitized resources, such as the Web with its data, services, and applications, is changing the society in fundamental ways and creating opportunities and challenges for globalization. This is part of our special feature, Digitization of Memory and Politics in Eastern Europe.Ī spotlight on the University of Helsinki.
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