Open data publishing platform AVAA

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AVAA is a platform for publishing open research data

Serves both the producers and users of open data

Offers tools for utilizing data via applications and interfaces for e.g. data download, analysis and visualizations

Pilot cases of research data sets and related access toolsare developed together with the content producers

avointiede.fi/avaa

AVAA background

Goal to enhance accessibility of research data in reusableformats

Aimed at anyone producing and using research data

Independent of data storage location

Service launched in 2013

Open Science and Research initiative’s service, offered by Ministry of Education and Culture, provided by CSC

AVAA portal & applications

Portal houses web-based tools for utilizing data, e.g. download, analysis and visualizations

Functionality to download open data from IDA

Pilot cases published

Research groups and CSC jointly develop open source applications for data access

Participate in the development by opening your data

Independent of data storage location

AVAA benefits

Enables publishing research data

Extends data storage services

E.g. web services, analysis tools

Open source tools and platform technology

Development of open science tools jointly with data producers

Pilot cases inform the development of future generic tools

AVAA applications

1. Visualization and download tool for atmospheric data of University of Helsinki’s Stations for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR)

2. OpenStreetMap (OSM) data interface in WMS service

3. University of Helsinki’s Conservation Biology Informatics Group’s(CBIG) visualizations related to their Nature article

4. Institute for Languages of Finland (KOTUS) georeferenceddialect data download and search

SmartSMEAR in AVAA

OpenStreetMap in AVAA

CBIG site on AVAA

AVAA technology

Liferay open source platform

Java portlets for applications

Code available in Github

Geoserver for GIS data

Data in database, file etc.

No authentication necessary for open data users

Haka authentication for content providers

Other ATT services

AVAA forms part of the services of the Open science and research initiative along with other services

Research data finder Etsin

Research data storage service IDA

AVAA offers downloads of open data stored in IDA and described in Etsin

Open research data is also available from the Aila portal of The Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Data planning

Data search/collection

Data analysis

Data storage

Data access

Data reuse

Data lifecycle and Open Science services

Data management

guide and checklist

METADATA

DATA

OPENCLOSED

Supporting varied degrees of openness

Open Science and Research services

Services offered by MINEDU

Services free of charge to end-users

Services provided by various partners

Developed under direction from the initiative

Recommended by e.g. by the Academy of Finland

Existing services developed continuously and new services piloted within the initiative

More information and contacts

Service website

openscience.fi/services

Open science contact address

avointiede@postit.csc.fi

CSC Service Desk

servicedesk@csc.fi

+358 9 457 2821 (weekdays 8:30-16:00)