Connecting to the past - newspaper digitisation in the Nordic Countries

摘要

Newspaper collections are targets that have a great demand on the Internet from researchers as well as the public at large.Our digitised historical newspaper collections and the born digital ones are connecting the users to places, questions, nations and human life over centuries. Incidents from the past are suddenly easily accessible. The past is living in the present.Today I will talk about newspapers in Finland. I will also give an update on the Historical Nordic Newspaper Project - one of the pioneers in digitising historical newspapers.