In August 2022, Jacob Orrje from the project attended the session "Min(d)ing New Connections: How to Approach Letters and Handwritten Relations as Big Data?", arranged by Illona Pikkanen.

In his presentation "Mapping the Geographies of Early Modern Mining Knowledge. A Digital History of the Foreign Study Tours of the Swedish Bureau of Mines, 1691–1826", he discussed how the Swedish mining administration encouraged traveling officials to tour foreign territories to collect new useful knowledge. These officials produced numerous handwritten relations of foreign lands (totaling c. 15 000 handwritten pages) over time. Especially he focused on how digital techniques – such as Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), annotation of entities, and Deep Mapping– can be combined with qualitative analysis, to mine these texts for new historical insights about the circulation of early modern mining knowledge.