CSC – Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus Oy CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.

Data Services for Scientific Users in Finland

NORDUnet Conference 17.9.2009

Kimmo Koivunen

Background• Who am I?

– Development manager at CSC – Finnish IT Center for Science– Leader of a group called Tools for Data

• Data services maintained by the group– PaITuli – Geospatial data service– CSC Stream – AV streaming service– Database service– Nic.funet.fi – FTP service– PairsDB – protein sequence database

• Data services on development– Radio and TV archive– Tape storage service– MIDRAS project

PaITuli – geospatial data service• Downloading service of geospatial data sets for Finnish

universities and polytechnics• Data is allowed to use for research and education• Web application with map UI

– MapServer– HTML + JavaScript– Part of CSC’s extranet service

• First version launched 2007• Renewed 2009

– Now a service in HAKA federation

PaITuli – data sets• Currently includes data sets from:

– National Land Survey of Finland – Finnish Road Administration– Geological Survey of Finland– Finnish Meteorological Institute– National Board of Antiquities

• 27 different data sets– Some with temporal subsets

• altogether 530 GB

PaITuli – screenshot 1

PaITuli – screenshot 2

PaITuli – screenshot 3

User has to accept EULA before downloading

PaITuli – screenshot 4

PaITuli – experiences and future • New service has attracted quite much

users– 350 different users since April 2009– Over 40 000 files downloaded

• Next steps– More data sets– Close collaboration with finnish INSPIRE

portal development

Finnish radio- and TV archive (RTVA)• National audiovisual archive (KAVA) has a mandate to archive

radio and TV broadcasts in Finland– The law of storing and preserving cultural material (Laki

kulttuuriaineistojen tallettamisesta ja säilyttämisestä 1433/2007) (came into operation January 1st 2008)

• In development KAVA uses subcontractors • CSC’s role is

– Act as a technical integrator– Build a storage and VoD subsystems– Maintain the system in production phase

• RTVA system will launced at end of 2009– More details will be published at same time

Radio and TV archive: Technical diagram

RTVA: Rough timetable• 1H/2008:

– Overall design and procurement process• 2H/2008:

– Start of development • capturing subsystem• Storage subsystem• Metadata management system (MMS)

• 1H/2009: – capturing and storage subsystems up and running– First alpha release of MMS

• 2H/2009: – Development of VoD subsystem– MMS final release (december 2009)– 31.12.2009 offical release

RTVA: Storage subsystem

• All files on disks and tapes• Data stored so far:

– 130 000 hours of radio and TV broadcast– 200 000 files– 37 TB

RTVA: Next steps

• Development of VoD subsystem• Integration and preparation for production

phase• Offical release of RTVA in december 2009

Thank you!

Questions?

kimmo.koivunen@csc.fi