The Anatomy of Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Mikko Tolonen is an Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki and the leader of the Helsinki Computational History Group (COMHIS). His part of this work has been funded by the Academy of Finland under Grants 1333716 and 1347706. He’d like to thank also Helsinki University Library for funding the Open Access of this article and members of COMHIS for supporting the work.

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