Open science and research initiative in Finland: Persistency and infrastructure as backbone for openness, Juha Haataja, Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland

Open science and research initiative in

Finland: Persistency and infrastructure as

backbone for openness.

Conference on Open Science

11.3.2013

Juha Haataja

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

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

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Open Science and research 2014-2017 (ATT)

Services Open

Knowledge

Program

Research

Institute

Renewal Horizon

2020

Planning Information

gatheringkerääminen

Preparation and Analysis

Storage and

management

Utilization of Results

Network

(Open Science ym.)

Citizen Science

Education and research

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.

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


Currently under commening phase – decision to be made early 2014

Suositellaan kunkin organisaation tai mahdollisesti tietyn prosessin laatujärjestelmän mukaista toimintaa.

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

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


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


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


Source: TTA project

Information infrastructures for open data – a Finnish example


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

How? - Nationally Unified Structure

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


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