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Have you rolled the DICE?

DICE offers “something for everyone”, from individual scientist all the way up to the most demanding scientific research projects. The offering includes services ranging personal cloud storage for individuals and small teams to sophisticated services for projects, organisations and research infrastructures. The core of the service offering is the EUDAT service portfolio complemented with additional state-of-the-art services.

Customisable EUDAT services as part of CSC's service portfolio

CSC offers a comprehensive range of data management services to help customers take care of their valuable data. Today, CSC offers EUDAT data services as part of its own service portfolio. EUDAT is a European consortium with its roots in EU projects led by CSC.

Introducing CSC's content retention policy in Services for Research and Education

The volume of digital data is ever-growing, also in research. The owner of the content needs to be aware of legislative issues, understand the meaning of good data management practices and make plans for the data lifecycle. GDPR also sets requirements on data. Personal data must always be managed and deleted according to published plans and consents.

EGA is an extensive archive of biomedical patient data

European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) archives and distributes patient data collected in biomedical studies. EGA is a part of the European Elixir data infrastructure that serves life sciences. The repository is one of the world’s most extensive ones.

Write an effective data management plan − Last minute tips for Academy applicants

In the past years funders have started to request a data management plan (DMP) along with the actual research plan when applying for funding. What should be now taken into account in the research plan about data management?

Open access materials data in NOMAD

The NOMAD Repository and Archive (Novel Materials Discovery) distributes data related to materials science, a discipline incorporating physics, chemistry and engineering in order to design and discover new materials. The repository and archive provide the data under a Creative Commons license in raw and processed formats.

The Language Bank of Finland serves digital humanities and social sciences

The Language Bank began as CSC’s science support branch for language research. The last few years have seen the Language Bank also actively seek to reach out to other digital humanities and social sciences.

What to take into consideration when compiling research material?

Research material management begins already before collecting the data itself. At the very least, it is important to know who the target users are and how they are going to use it, as well as how they will be able to access the data and with what kind of rights.

What a researcher should know about persistent identifiers

Even the most useful information has no practical value if nobody can access it. Digitalization only aggravates the problem. Persistent identifiers (PID) are the internet’s way to point at documents and other items that should remain findable as long as possible.

Tackling coronavirus with scientific databases

Coronavirus can be overcome through international cooperation and sharing of data, and electronic research infrastructures can help with this. They include hardware, information networks, databases and services that together make up a network of global information exchange. Finland is a member of these infrastructures and the benefits are undeniable.

New Computing and Data infrastructure: Puhti, Mahti and Allas

You may have seen the news about opening of Puhti and Allas. How did we get to this point, and how does it fit in with the overall roadmap?

CSC for sensitive data — because your data is worth it (and should be kept that way)

While ePouta has been successful in providing our institutional customers a safe and robust platform for their sensitive data processing, it has lately become very clear that something more is desperately needed.

Cloud Predictions for 2019

I have to be honest, predicting “cloud” is a bit of a daunting task, so this year I'll explicitly focus on a more specific area: Cloud computing in research, writes Development Manager Kalle Happonen.

Suomen tulee olla digitalisaation suunnannäyttäjä

CSC:n tavoitteet ja tehtävät tulevalle hallitukselle pohjautuvat strategisiin linjauksiimme siitä, miten suomalaisen tutkimuksen, koulutuksen, kulttuurin ja julkishallinnon kilpailukykyä edistetään.

Keskustelua avoimen tieteen koordinoinnista

Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunta otti vastuun avoimen tieteen disseminaatiosta ja koordinoinnista ja rakentaa tästä pysyvää toimintaa. TSV aloitti koordinaatiotyönsä neljällä suunnittelutilaisuudella.

Kamppailu avoimen julkaisemisen puolesta jatkuu

Kävin ensimmäiset keskusteluni avoimesta julkaisemisesta nuorena tutkijana 90-luvun lopussa Tampereen yliopiston alakuppilassa. Keskustelua on käyty jo kauan ja kamppailu avoimen julkaisemisen puolesta jatkuu yhä.

Missä olet, Sirkku Sokeritoppa?

Kieltämättä 2000-luvun internet-yritysten perustajat näyttävät päässeen käsiksi samanlaisiin rikkauksiin kuin öljykenttien omistajat 1800-luvun lopulla. Facebookin kassaan kilisee 200 000 dollaria minuutissa, ja sen voittoprosentti on 50. Millä edellytyksillä Suomeen voisi syntyä tällaisia rahasampoja? Missä ovat Sirkut, Sakarit ja Danit, jotka näitä sampoja kehittävät Suomessa?

Building Finnish FAIR data competencies through RDA

Demand for following FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles has been around for some years now, and as we know it is not going to disappear. Actually, building on FAIR principles is more and more demanded in research data management, also in infrastructure and service development side.

Cloud Predictions for 2018

Read what we predict will happen in 2018.

EOSC-julistus ja toimenpiteet toimintamallin edistämiseksi Suomessa

Euroopan avoimen tieteen pilvipalvelu (EOSC) on Euroopan komission keihäänkärkihanke ja tärkeä tavoite. EOSC kokoaa eurooppalaiset tutkijat, heidän tutkimusdatansa sekä olemassa olevat tutkimusta tukevat infrastruktuurit yhteiseen pilveen, josta data ja palvelut ovat saatavilla.