Conference Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges, Warsaw, March 11, 2014, organized by Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw.

1. Open science and research initiative in
Finland: Persistency and infrastructure as
backbone for openness.
Conference on Open Science
11.3.2013
Juha Haataja

2. Open Science and Research 2009-2017
Research Data
Survey Project
2009-2011
National Research
Data Project
2011-2014
Open Science and
Research Project
Roadmap 2014
• Open access
• Open data
• Open methods
• Roadmap
• Services
• Metadata
• International
collaboration
• Awareness
Open Science and
Research Project
Target 2017
• National and international
collaboration
• Change of culture
• Open Science Handbook
• Services for preservation
• Services for metadata
• Services for access
• Tools e.g. for identification

3. Challenging and changing
environment
Changing drivers of science policies
• Globalisation, emerging countries,
emerging knowhow
• Grand societal and environmental
challenges
• Financial crises
• Need of a broad based innovation
concept and multidisciplinary
approach
• National policies versus European
policies? National versus regional
policies? Local and organisational
strategies?
Changing mechanisms in science
• Researcher careers/ Tenure track
• Research infrastructures
• Modern universities and RTOs
• Joint programmes and joint degrees
• Distribution of knowledge
• Joint pooling of funding (virtual
common pots, real common pots,
others)
• Joint evaluation and assessment
activities
• Virtual learning and science
R. Maijala, How to make Open Science sustainable-the Finnish perspective, OECD, 12.12.2013

4. Figurecreatedusingwordle.com.Source:TTAproject

5. Governement
Companies
Open Science and research 2014-2017 (ATT)
ServicesOpen
Knowledge
Program
Research
Institute
Renewal
Horizon
2020
Planning
Information
gatheringkerä
äminen
Preparation
and Analysis
Storage
and
managem
ent
Utilization
of Results
Network
(Open Science ym.)
Citizen Science
Education and resear

6. Targets for Open Science and Research
Initiative (ATT)
• To incorporate open science and research to the whole research
process to improve the visibility and impact of science and research
in the innovation system and society at large
• To foster the research system in Finland towards better
competitiveness and higher quality, transparent, collaborative and
inspirational research process should be promoted.
• The measures promote open publications, open research data, open
research methods and tools, as well as increasing skills and
knowledge and support services in open science domain.
• Contributions from all research system actors are welcome to
change the research culture towards openness.
• Finland will engage in international collaboration to promote open
science and research.

7. Proposal for improving access to results of
scientific research
• Basic approach
– Research data and publications are available openly via open interfaces
• Some proposals
– All members of the Finnish research community share the scientific
publications and research data produced openly in information network
– The re-use of research data and publications is not unnecessary restricted
and the terms of use should be clearly available
– The openess will be carried out according to the ethical guidelines for the
responsible conduct of research and with respect to the valid legislation.
– The research data should always be provided openly, unless otherwise
specified by the law or contracts
– The contracts and funding decisions conserning research should support
the open availability of publications and research data
R. Maijala, How to make Open Science sustainable-the Finnish perspective, OECD, 12.12.2013
Currently under commening phase – decision to be made early 2014
Suositellaan kunkin organisaation tai mahdollisesti tietyn prosessin laatujärjestelmän mukaista toimintaa.

8. Open Science and Research 2009-2017
Research Data
Survey Project
2009-2011
National Research
Data Project
2011-2014
Open Science and
Research Initiative
Roadmap 2014
• Open access
• Open data
• Open methods
• Roadmap
• Services
• Metadata
• International
collaboration
• Awareness
Open Science and
Research Initiative
Target 2017
• National and international
collaboration
• Change of culture
• Open Science Handbook
• Services for preservation
• Services for metadata
• Services for access
• Tools e.g. for identification

9. Ministry of Education and Culture
– Key actions to Open Science
• Facilitating common effort
– Active dialogue with and between stakeholders
– Commitment to actions
– Collaboration and coordination on infrastructure issues
– Common policies
• Building information infrastructure
– Distributed, federated services
– Service provisioning
– Finnish infrastructure roadmap to be published in 2014
• Skills development
– Scientist level: data management basics, principles of Open Science
– Specialist level: data specialists, information management specialists,
infrastructure specialists
– Managerial level: enterprise architecture understanding, lifecycle management
skills, cost-benefit revenue skills
R. Maijala, How to make Open Science sustainable-the Finnish perspective, OECD, 12.12.2013

10. Open Science: Gradual and practical
approach in Finland
Challenges Solutions
Creating ownership ATT and KDK –initiatives engaging key actors at
different organizational levels
Availability of
infrastructures
Infrastructure roadmap including Open Science,
funding for infrastructures and services
Harmonization of
metadata
Developing standards
Open access, licence
policy
Proposals submitted to the Ministry, now at
commenting phase
Cultural change towards
openness
Seminars, training, guidance (education of
researchers)
International collaboration Standardization, making use of researchers’
networks, active role in key initiatives
R. Maijala, How to make Open Science sustainable-the Finnish perspective, OECD, 12.12.2013

11. Data
gap
Research
idea
Research
plan
Experiment
Data
analysis
Results
Open
publication
Principles to collect,
anlayze, use, share and
preserve data
Data: Qualitative or
quantitative statements
or numbers that are (or
assumed to be) factual:
1) raw or primary data
or 2) derivative of
primary data. Not yet
product of analysis or
interpretation other than
calculation.
Big Data: Data
that requires
massive
computing power
to process.
Broad Data: Structured
big data freely available
through web to everyone
Open data: data that
meets the criteria:
accessible, useable,
assessable
and intelligible
Metadata: Metadata “data about data”, contains
information about a dataset e.g. why and how it
was generated, who created it and when or
technical data describing its structure, licensing
terms, and standards it conforms to.
Semantic Data: Data that are tagged with
particular metadata - metadata that can be used
to derive relationships between data.
Research process and
openess of data and publications
Source for terminology: Science as an open enterprise, The Royal Society 2012,
http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/policy/projects/sape/2012-06-20-SAOE.pdf
Information
Knowledge
Open
access
R. Maijala, How to make Open Science sustainable-the Finnish perspective, OECD, 12.12.2013

12. Source: TTA project
Information infrastructures for open data – a Finnish example
R. Maijala, How to make Open Science sustainable-the Finnish perspective, OECD, 12.12.2013

13. Need for international collaboration:
Open Metadata for Data, Publications, Methods
J. Riley: Seeing Standards (2010)
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
• Open metadata challenges
– to improve publication, data and method
findability, availability and usability, some
common guidelines needed
• No single metadata standard fits all!
• Finnish research metadata principle
– reuse of metadata
– utilize existing metadata formats and
services
• PRINCIPLE: metadata is always open
• International and national co-operation is
important

14. How? - Nationally Unified Structure

15. Conclusions on Finnish approach on
sustainability of Open Science
• Responding to grand challenges and changes in society
requires multidiciplinary and crossectional approach
• Ensuring competitiviness of Finnish scientific environment
• Digitalization of science multiplies the amount of data
• Solutions include both hard and soft elements
– Identification of needs and benefits for individuals, groups and
society
– Identification of problems and finding solutions
– Financial and other support and incentives on a cost-efficient way
– Building up infrastructures, harmonization of metadata etc.
– Changing cultures, trust building
– Collaboration and open dialogue essential
R. Maijala, How to make Open Science sustainable-the Finnish perspective, OECD, 12.12.2013