Many cultural heritage organisations are currently thinking about how to secure cultural heritage materials in exceptional circumstances. One such organisation is the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS), which will digitise approximately 600,000 pages of nationally significant archive material by 2026 alongside its other operations.
Securing archive material so that it remains accessible to the public and researchers is one of SLS’s core tasks. The subject has become particularly topical recently due to the unstable global situation.
The project was estimated to take three years and is subject to strict digitisation requirements. The service provider chosen to carry it out is Grano, which has garnered praise, particularly for its expertise and patience in similar projects in the past.
Founded in 1885, the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS) is tasked with preserving, exploring, and sharing knowledge about Finland-Swedish culture. Being a scholarly society with a long history, SLS has a massive physical archive, the digitisation of which is subject to a large number of requirements.
Digitisation Coordinator Camilla Englund from SLS praises Grano’s expertise.
“This is a major project involving hundreds of thousands of individual surfaces. Grano had the facilities, staff and know-how necessary to digitise our materials for three years on a full-time basis,” Camilla describes the scope of the project.