{"id":6,"date":"2025-05-12T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/digits\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:34:16","slug":"about-the-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/digits\/about-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Center for Digital Text Scholarship<\/strong>\u00a0(DigiTS) is an ERA Chair project with a focus on textual data, funded by the\u00a0European Union. The aim of ERA Chair projects is attracting high-level researchers to a widening university or research centre to increase its research capacity by establishing a research team fully integrated in the coordinator\u2019s institution to significantly improve its research performance in a scientific domain of choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing in a dedicated team of experts, DigiTS enables several key actions. Firstly, DigiTS is focused on research activities, including the promotion and development of LLMs for Estonian. Secondly, concerning teaching and training, DigiTS will expand studies in Digital Humanities at all levels of higher education. Thirdly, as a result of the previous points, DigiTS will have a stronger basis for collaboration with other institutes at UT as well as with GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) and start-ups in the industry. Since text-based DH is related to many fields in the humanities and social sciences, DigiTS will increase the ability to apply digital methods to textual data relevant to a multitude of scientific disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project revolves around the following objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n