Open and public databases

A huge amount of secondary data already exists, so you do not always need to collect your own data. Good sources for such already existing data are, for example, open data banks or materials from previous research projects. Here we introduce a few of them, from statistics to Finnish political party manifestos.

General databases

1. Tietoarkisto
   • Finnish Social Science Data Archive
   • Provides access  to a wide range of digital research data
2. Helsinki Region Infoshare
3. Avoindata.fi
4. European Data Portal
   • Harvests the metadata of Public Sector Information available on public data portals across European countries
5. Finland's National Public Service Broadcasting company YLE (FIN, ENG)
   • Esim.:
   • Yle Uutisten vaalikonedatat
   • Tietokannat
   • Ylen ohjelma- ja uutistyössä käytetyt datat

Survey data

1. Tilastokeskus (FIN,ENG)
   • The only Finnish public authority specifically established for statistics
   • Produces the vast majority of Finnish official statistics and is a significant international actor in the field of statistics
2. CESSDA
   • Consortium for European Social Science Data Archives
   • Provides large-scale, integrated and sustainable data services to the social sciences
   • Brings together social science data archives across Europe

Textual open/linked data

1. KORP Kielipankki
   • Tool to search texts from places for commenting such as discussion forums (Ylilauta, Suomi24, HS.fi comments)
2. Parlamenttisampo
   1. ParliamentSampo is a linked open data research infrastructure of Finnish parliamentary data based on some million speeches extracted from the minutes of the plenary session of the Parliament of Finland (poF). This data was interlinked with an ontology of actors, organizations, and events of the PoF.
3. LawSampo
   1. LawSampo Knowledge Graph contains Finnish consolidated legislation and case law as Linked Open Data.
4. Internet Archive – Wayback machine
   • NGO that archives the internet itself
   • Free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled and the general public
   • A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form
5. Semantic Finlex (FIN, ENG)
   
   • Finnish law and justice as linked open data
6. POHTIVA
   • Database for Finnish political party manifestos
7. Kansalliskirjasto
   • Datakatalogi
   • Digitoidut aineistot