September 2025. Wei Luo's master thesis from the Master's Programme in Digital Humanities at the Department of ALM at Uppsala University is now available online. The title of the thesis is "Multimodal-LLM as A Reliable Tool for Information Extraction from Historical Documents: A Digital Humanities Approach to Swedish Patent Cards (1945-1975)". Read it here .

September 2025. Matti and Amanda Wasielewski  have written a chapter entitled "What is Digital Humanities and what's it doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)?"  in the new anthology "Kod & Kultur: Institutionen för ABM i Uppsala 30 år – en forskarantologi" (eds. Rydbeck, K., Huvila, I. & Foka, A.). Read the chapter here .

September 2025. Now you can watch the official presentation of Matti and his RJ Advanced Studies project  “Transnational innovation: A computational study of linguistic change and co-creation in France and Sweden during the Second Industrial Revolution”. Watch it here .

August 2025 Yunting attended the closing ceremony of the JSPS summer program after a fruitful research stay at Kobe University. Thank you Shigehiro-sensei for hosting her!

July 2025 Fredrik Tell and Matti La Mela presented the paper "Creating a Marketplace for Ideas during the Reign of Oscar II: ‘The Inventor Exchange’ in Sweden, 1886–1906"  in the session "Patent Data in Economic History: Challenges and Prospects" , organized by Alexander Donges (University of Mannheim), Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) and Michelangelo Vasta (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and University of Siena).

July 2025 Fredrik Tell and Matti La Mela organized a workshop at Grand Hotel Lund about  Historical research on patents and innovation  for participants at the World Economic History Conference (WEHC) in Lund.

June 2025 Yunting has arrived in Japan where she will be a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) research fellow at Kobe University as part of their JSPS Summer Program. There she will collaborate with Professor Shigehiro Nishimura and do research on Japan-Sweden patent families and the activities of Japanese patent agents during the second industrial revolution.

May 2025 Matti was interviewed about his research project "Making public property: a digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950" . Read it here .

April 2025 Matti and Yunting presented the project "From Invention to Innovation: Natural Language Processing to Study Swedish Historical Patents (1890—1945)"

March 2025 Yunting presented the paper "MLLM-Assisted Information Extraction from Historical Documents"  at the Digital Humanities in the Nordic & Baltic Countries (DHNB) conference in Tartu. The conference took place at the Estonian National Museum.

March 2025 Matti presented a paper on the history of allemansrätten and digital conceptual analysis, which is part of the new research project (2025-2028) funded by the Swedish Research Council, titled “Making public property: a digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950”. The conference took place at Leiden University.

March 2025 Fredrik presented the paper "Innovation undecided? Laboring patent litigation in Sweden, 1885-1925" in the session "Patents and innovation" at the Business History Conference (BHC) in Atlanta.

January 2025. Together with Michelangelo Vasta from the University of Siena, Fredrik Tell is the guest editor for a special issue in the Scandinavian Economic History Review (SEHR). The theme for the special issue is: "Patent history and economic growth: Institutional frameworks, practices, and global perspectives". Read more here .