The following was initially written in the Estonian language, then translated to English by Google Translate:

The National Library's DigiLabor helps to monetize cultural data

On March 30, the Estonian National Library's research portal DigiLabor started operating. Those interested can create new knowledge and values from the datasets themselves or use the help of a library representative.

The goal of the National Library's DigiLab (digilab.rara.ee) is to help make the data held by libraries more digitally accessible and usable, to promote data valorization, research and innovation. The DigiLabor collection contains metadata of over 12 million newspaper articles and 70,000 books and 785,000 objects, but the datasets are constantly being supplemented.

"Cultural heritage and information technology come together in DigiLabor in the form of data. The target group of the portal is humanities and social scientists, data scientists and other interested parties," summarized Peeter Tinits, chief digital humanities specialist at the National Library of Estonia.

The data comes from the digital archive DIGAR, the Estonian article database DEA, the Estonian national bibliography database ERB and the Estonian keyword set EMS. DigiLabor also gathers data on legal bibliography, bibliography of Estonian presidents, parliamentarism and repros

The datasets are divided into categories such as books, periodicals, image material, sound, multimedia, and also individuals and collectives. The interested party can make inquiries in DigiLabor according to the category of interest.

The announcement is quite lengthy and goes on and on. I'll stop here. However, if you have an interest in Estonia and want to read the entire article, you will need to go to https://www.nlib.ee/et/uudised/rahvusraamatukogu-digilabor-aitab-v%C3%A4%C3%A4rindada-kultuuriandmeid. (Hopefully, you can read the Estonian language. If not, go to https://translate.google.com for a translation.)