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Workshop on the environmental history of mining and metal making, 20 April 2026
On 20 April 2026, Orrje and Jansson participated at a workshop at Jernkontoret in Stockholm for discussing environmental history of mining and metal making.
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Digital History seminar at SU, 21 October 2025
On 25 October 2025, Orrje presented the draft paper: "Datamining the Swedish Bureau of Mines: Experiments with distant reading in an early modern administrative archive", analyzing the minutes and travelogues of the Bureau of Mines using LLM:s and text-mining methods.
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Subterranean Supervision. Codification of Miners’ Techniques in the Bergskollegium, 1620–1750, 27–30 March 2025
On the 27–30 March 2025, Orrje presented his paper "Subterranean Supervision. Codification of Miners’ Techniques in the Bergskollegium, 1620–1750" at the workshop "Knowing in Action", arranged by Simon Schaffer (Cambridge) and Lissa Roberts (Twente).
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HTR lecture at paleography course at Gothenburg University
On the 26 February 2025, Orrje presented our digital work with HTR at the course "Paleography and AI" at Gothenburg University.
Early modern mines were like subterranean roots from which fiscal-military states drew military, economic, and scientific power. To improve this vital trade, fledgling European mining administrations encouraged travelling officials to tour foreign territories to collect new useful knowledge. This website is the result of a three-year collaborative project between researchers at Uppsala and Stockholm University, which has used state-of-the-art digital methods to explore the collection of foreign knowledge of the Swedish Bureau of Mines through their system of study tours. Read more about the project