UraLaari – Uralic Trove!

In March three articles from Human diversity were published in the Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications. They all promote open science, since Santaharju et al. (2025) is a database publication about century old Finnish dialect data, Roose et al. (2025) is a description of the URHIA user interface that helps to look and download our data without further technical knowledge and Vesakoski et al. (2025) combines all eight databases into UralicTrove.

Databases describe the human past in Finland and Northern Eurasia, specifically in the Uralic language speaker area. They include information about languages, dialects, people, environmental and cultural legacy. Databases have been or will be opened for everyone according to the FAIR-principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable).

Read more from the blog text (in Finnish) in Open Up! blog of Open Science Accelerator of the University of Turku:

Open Up! blog’s main themes are open science and research impact and the goal is to promote the culture of open science.

Take a closer look at the publications mentioned above:

Meeli Roose, Tua Nylén, Petro Pesonen, Harri Tolvanen, and Outi Vesakoski. 2025. “Uralic Historical Atlas (URHIA): Interactive Web App for Spatial Data”. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 7 (3). https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.12261.

Jenni Santaharju, Kaj Syrjänen, Terhi Honkola, Perttu Seppä, Outi Vesakoski, and Unni Leino. 2025. “Data Release: Digitized Dialect Atlas of Finnish by Lauri Kettunen”. Digital Humanities inhe Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 7 (3). https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.12270.

Outi Vesakoski, Michael Dunn, Meeli Roose, and Jenni Santaharju. 2025. “The Uralic Trove (UraLaari) – The Digital Data Infrastructure of Speaker Areas of Uralic Languages and Finnish Dialects”. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 7 (3). https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.12266.

From left to right: Meeli Roose, Outi Vesakoski and Jenni Santaharju in the Profi7 Computational Day at the University of Turku.