Patrik Höglund

Patrik Höglund, maritime archeaologist and historian. Patrik has worked on several research projects about the Baltic Sea’s history. He was part of the team that developed the Warship Log.

Patrik Höglund will be speaking at the Digital Collections Summit 2026 :

1000 warships, 100 wrecks, one database

The Baltic sea preserves thousands of historical shipwrecks, a unique and hidden part of history. When Swedish maritime museum Vrak took part in a research project to localize, identify and investigate the sunken ships of the Swedish navy we decided to bring these wrecks to the surface trough a free database: Örloggen (The Warship Log). This collaboration builds on open API:s, open data and knowledge from several institutions, all with the goal to salvage knowledge from the deep.