The Swedish National Archives

The Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet) primarily manage government records for future generations. Access to cultural heritage and authentic information that can be used for research, judicial matters and public transparency is fundamental to our democratic society. As a supervisory authority, we offer services, datasets and models related to our public task.

We work primarily with Handwritten Text Recognition, but also to some extent with historical language models. We share our training data and models here on Huggingface 🤗 and elsewhere. If you would like to work to improve or just use our models we'd be grateful!

Find us here 👉

• Our web pages where you can learn more about us and our services. 📚
• Our National Archives Database where you can search for and access archival information and digitised archival documents, maps, plans, drawings and more! 📚
• Our Our Github pages with documentation for our public APIs for accessing archival data. 🚀
• Our code that is open source can be found on our Github

Our long term goals

• Secure long-term access to information of importance to society
• Improve access to archives and public records