1. Towards the Finnish National Research Information Hub (Tutkimustietovaranto)

2. Research Information
=Descriptive infromation, metadata, on e.g. publications, research data, projects, researchers, research groups and organizations
Research Information Hub 2020:
” The Ministry of Education and Culture has set a goal, that in all information regarding all scientific research made in Finland will be easily accessible via various targeted service portals.
Information filled in one system will be automatically translated to other systems, and the administrative workload will be alleviated. ”

3. Organization of the project
The Ministry of Education and Culture (MINEDU) has authorised the implementation of the National Research Information Hub to CSC.
The project was launched in 2017 and financed as a part an of a seasonal agreement between the MINEDU’s department of education and science policy and CSC.
The Ministry of Education and Culture has nominated the boards and steering groups for the research administration of the information sources and research information hub.
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4. Current situation – disintegrated pieces of information
Vast amounts of information are constantly being collected and stored in various different locations, such as:
Field-specific services
International databases
Universities’ and other research organizations’ systems
Ministry of Education and Culture’s data collection
Libraries and citation databases
Scientific publishers
Research funders’ registers
Disintegrated pieces of information have been difficult and laborious to locate and utilize
Metadata from various databases and information systems have not been linked – resulting in overlapping and incomplete information entities
Lack of cohesive and complete access point for research being conducted in Finland

5. Towards National Research Information Hub 2020
UTILIZATION OF THE DATA:
Web portal
Open interfaces
Services for researchers
Statistic, analytics, reporting
etc.

6. Goals of the National Research Information Hub
Collect and transmit information already located in various systems – not to increase data collection and reporting loads.
Integrate and connect the currently disintegrated systems and registers to complement each other.
Collect and combine research metadata into more coherent and comprehensive entities.
Offer a pathway to original sources.
A single, open access point to a comprehensive picture of the research being conducted in Finland.
A tool to ease and enhance the transferability and accessibility of information in various services and processes.
Decrease the administrative workload – information entered into one system will be automatically translated to other systems.

7. An example of the National Research Hub information content: Research project
Funding
Funding decision
Funder information
Organizations participating in the project
Researchers and research groups involved
Publications from the project
Metadata
Full text links
Data collected and/or used
Access information
Research infrastructures used in the project
Terms of use

8. An example of the National Research Hub information content: Researcher
Identifiers
Affiliations
Research groups
Field and expertise
Publications
Research data

9. Schedule: Information sources for the Research Information Hub
Detailed schedule for the inclusion of different information sources depends on their individual development processes.
2018
2019
2020 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Publications (VIRTA)
Research projects (hanketietovaranto)
Research infrastructures (TIPA)
Research data (Etsin, METAX)
Researcher information (home organization, other services)
Other (e.g. patents, other research outputs and activities, research permissions)