Current and past projects
On this page you can find more information about the research projects currently underway in collaboration with the National Library, as well as those that have been completed.
Ongoing projects
Past projects
Accelerating Nek5000 with optimized OpenACC directives
Project start: 2021
Funder: European Union (PRACE)
Grant administrator: Stockholm University
Advert classification in digitized newspapers (master's project at KB lab)
Project start: 2022
Funder: -
Grant administrator: Royal Institute of Technology
The Astrid Lindgren Code: Astrid Lindgren's stenographed original manuscripts through digital image analysis, genetic criticism, book and media history perspectives
Project start: 2023
Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Grant administrator: Swedish Institute for Children's Books/Uppsala University
Civil society without borders: Nordic humanitarian aid activities during the Biafra crisis
Project start: 2022
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Grant administrator: Södertörn University
Data readiness workshop
Project start: 2021
Funder: Vinnova
Grant manager: AI Sweden
EODOPEN: eBooks-On-Demand-Network Opening Publications for European Netizens
Project start: 2019
Funder: European Union (Creative Europe)
Grant manager: University of Innsbruck
Eric Ericson – the artistic pedagogue and the pedagogical artist
Project start: 2022
Funder: The Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation
Grant administrator: Royal College of Music
Evaluation and adaptation of an improved OCR process for mass digitization
Project start: 2019
Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Grant administrator: The National Library of Sweden
Expansion and diversity: Digital mapping and analysis of the non-institutional performing arts in Gothenburg 1965–2000
Project start: 2019
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Grant administrator: University of Gothenburg
Federatively trained language models: a pilot study
Project start: 2021
Funder: -
Grant manager: Scaleout Systems
Language models for Swedish authorities
Project start: 2019
Funder: Vinnova
Grant manager: AI Sweden
Large Scale Language Models for Swedish with Megatron-LM
Project start: 2022
Funder: European Union (EuroHPC-JU via LUMI)
Grant manager: The National Library of Sweden
Large Scale Transformer Models for Swedish Text, Sound, and Images
Project start: 2021
Funder: European Union (EuroHPC-JU)
Grant manager: National Library of Sweden
Large Transformer Models for NLP
Project start: 2022
Funder: European Union (EuroHPC-JU via MeluXina)
Grant administrator: National Library of Sweden
Layout analysis in newspapers (master's project at KB lab)
Project start: 2022
Funder: -
Grant administrator: Royal Institute of Technology
Movie audiences in Sweden: a study on the heyday and decline of cinema
Project start: 2019
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Grant administrator: Örebro University
Machine learning for curation of Swedish news corpus (master's project at KB lab)
Project start: 2019
Funder: -
Grant administrator: Linköping University
Medieval Scandinavia – analysis of dyes in a Swedish medieval manuscript: KBS B50, Östgötalagen
Project start: 2023
Funder: Swedish National Heritage Board
Grant administrator: The National Library of Sweden
Megatrends in Education Policy
Project start: 2023
Funder: Stockholm School of Economics
Grant administrator: School of Business, Economics and Law
Mining for meaning: The dynamics of public migration discourse
Project start: 2019
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Grant administrator: Linköping University
The new order of criticism: mixed methods in the study of Swedish literary criticism over a century
Project start: 2020
Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Grant administrator: University of Gothenburg
News article segmentation using multimodal input (master's project at KB lab)
Project start: 2021
Funder: -
Grant administrator: Royal Institute of Technology
News Information Decoupling
Project start: 2021
Funder: -
Grant administrator: Aarhus University
Project KB-lab
Project start: 2019
Funder: KB
Grant administrator: KB
Participation in the visual cultural heritage: metadata, reuse and interdisciplinarity
Project start: 2019
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Grant administrator: Stockholm University
The Swedish r-word
Project start: 2021
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Grant administrator: Karlstad University
The Swedish National Heritage Board's oldest history – a digitization project
Project start: 2022
Funder: Swedish National Heritage Board
Grant administrator: The National Library of Sweden
Sami audiovisual collection: films and TV programs in archives and on the web
Project start: 2019
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Grant administrator: Umeå University
SuperLim: a Swedish test set for language models
Project start: 2020
Funder: Vinnova
Grant manager: AI Sweden
SuperLim 2.0
Project start: 2022
Funder: Vinnova
Grant manager: AI Sweden
Swedish post-medieval manuscripts in the National Library of Sweden and Uppsala University Library – a cataloguing and digitization project
Project start: 2019
Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Grant administrator: The Royal Library/Uppsala University
Swedish Retrospective National Bibliography (SRNB), 1483–1599
Project start: 2022
Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond (research initiation)
Grant administrator: Lund University
The sewing competition – Nordic neighbors at the Winter Olympics in sports media 1936–1998
Project start: 2022
Funder: NordForsk
Grant administrator: Södertörn University
Speech technology methods for making the audiovisual collections of the Royal Library accessible
Project start: 2020
Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Grant administrator: Royal Institute of Technology/Royal Library
Televised information: Swedish authorities' audiovisual communication
Project start: 2020
Funder: Swedish Research Council
Grant administrator: Lund University
Technical solution for training language model
Project start: 2021
Funder: -
Grant manager: Gavagai
Using BERT for article reconstruction in historical newspapers (master's project at KB lab)
Project start: 2021
Funder: -
Grant administrator: Uppsala University
QUEERLIT database: Development of metadata and searchability for LGBTQ literature
Project start: 2021
Funder: Riksbankens jubileumsfond
Grant administrator: University of Gothenburg
The Welfare State Analyzed. Text analysis and modeling of Swedish politics, media and culture, 1945–1989
Project start: 2019
Funder: Swedish Research Council, Project grant for digitization and accessibility of cultural heritage collections
Grant administrator: Umeå University/Uppsala University