TTA – National Research Data Project, Finland

1. TTA – National Research Data Project, Finland

2. The objectives of the TTA infrastructure Science is becomingevermoreopen and data-driven. Largeintegrateddatasetscanprovide a deeperunderstanding of nature and society. • 1. Developing a Finnish sustainable information infrastructure for research and cultural data; • 2. Providing selected services to this infrastructure cost-effectively and sustainably; • 3. Enabling and encourage sharing and re-use of scientific and cultural data; • 4. Ensuring preservation of digital data, • 5. Providing tools for data management, both on organizational, discipline and user level; and • 6. Contributing to unification of interfaces and metadata. • 7. Strengthen the capasitiesof researchinstitutes and infrastructures, thusenhancing the competiveness of Finnishresearch.

3. Tasks for enhancing the usage of research datasets Goal: the extensiveuse of publiclyfunded data in research Discovery Availability Usability Data life cycle The requiredactivities Coordination Role division Attitude Collaboration Interoperability Resources The data infrastructurebuilding blocks Politicalwill and data policy Legislation renewal Development of practices • Politicalalignment • Common goals • Principles and the division of • responsibilities • Resourceplanning • Coordinationenhancements • Clearrules • Removing the ambiguity • Easing the availability and • usage of research data • Data inventaries • Terms of use • Rules for financing and researchprin- • ciples • The strenghtening of skills • Interoperablesystems • Common services • Thematicapplications • Long termpreservation • Investments Ministries,sponsors, Data producing and governing organizations, univer- sities, researchinstitu- tions, researchers Ministries, government, statecouncil Ministries, Data protection commissioner, the parliament The ministry of culture and education, researchorganizations, Infrastructureactors Main actors

4. Project organization Deliverables Coordinationgroup Steering group Metadata Data infrastructure Researchregistries Long TermPreservation Availability of data Workgroups Integrated data archive (IDA) Data catalog (KATA) Data management pilot (SMEAR) Implementation projects

5. Currentblueprint for informationinfrastructure Guidelines & Support IDA Storage Service AVAA Publishing Service Analyzing & Visualization KATA Data Catalogue Collaboration Tools Metadata Support Services (Identifiers, Ontologies…) REMS EntitlementsMgmt Finding Aids PAS Preservation Startegy | Governance | Development Path

6. Metadata • No single metadata standard fits all! • TTA metadata principle: reuse of metadata; utilize existing metadata formats and services • International and national co-operation is important J. Riley: Seeing Standards (2010) http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/ • TTA metadata challenges: to improve data findability, availability and usability • Three metadata tiers: minimal, medium, large • TTA metadata model defines metadata that must be attached to each dataset and the structure of that metadata Usability Findability, availability

7. TTA-services 2013 • IDA – data storage (in use) • KATA –data catalog (2013) • AVAA -open data platform (2013) • PAS – Long TermPreservation (2015), pilotsstarting 2014

8. Integrated Data Archive (IDA)storageservice • Joint storage service for preserving digital research data and increasing its re-use • Safe preservation of data and metadata • Data preservation in intact and unchanged format by means of managing copies and their integrity Yhteinen tallennuspalvelu tutkimuksen digitaalisten tietoaineistojen säilyttämiseksi ja uudelleenkäytönheänä ja muuttumattomana turvataan kopioiden ja niiden hallinnalla.

9. The KATA data catalogue • makes it easier to find data that is available for research • produces information about the existence of data for funders • enables the creation of a joint terms of use and rights of use culture (ownership and utilisation rights information in the data catalogue) • enables generation of merit for the researcher • helps to identify and find data for long-term preservation • requires the projects to commit to the agreed principles (description, openness)

10. IDA-KATAinterfaces TTA-users Otherusers Otherdatasets Data Metadata Metadata IDA KATA TTA

11. PAS: Long-term preservation of research data • Accumulation of research information is foundation of research and research organisation activity. • At this time, there is no controlled and functional way of handling digital information in the long term. • Long-term preservation of digital data means the reliable preservation of digital information for several decades or even hundreds of years. • Equipment, software, and file formats will become outdated, but despite this the information must be preserved in understandable form. • Long-term preservation of research data involves close co-operation with the National Digital Library (NDL).

12. How to getaccess to the services? • IDA – Howto become an IDA user: • via university´s IDA contact person or • contact@csc.fi • projects funded by the Academy of Finland • polytechnics • KATA – open for everybody • AVAA - open for everybody • PAS – willbedefinedlater

13. Furtherinformation: • www.csc.fi/tta • www.csc.fi/ida