Datasets

Data sets 2018

The following organisations are making available open cultural materials and data to the hackathon:

Helsinki City Museum

Dataset 1: Signe Brander’s panoramic photos of Helsinki from the early 20th century in full resolution. Includes small hand drawn maps that show the place and orientation of the image.
License: CC BY 4.0
Link: http://www.hri.fi/en/dataset/signe-branderin-panoraamakuvat-1900-luvun-alun-helsingista

Dataset 2: Over 63 000 photographs, digitised art, and objects from the collections of Helsinki City Museum accessible via Finna interface or Finna API. See also service built on Finna API “Helsinkikuvia.fi”.
License: CC BY 4.0
Link: http://hkm.finna.fihttp://api.finna.fihttp://www.helsinkikuvia.fi

Dataset 3: Information on the history of buildings in Helsinki. The coordinate system in use is: ETRS-GK25.
License: CC0
Link:
https://hri.fi/data/group/rakennettu-ymparisto
https://hri.fi/data/en_GB/dataset/helsingin-kulttuurihistoriallisesti-merkittavat-porrashuoneet


Finnish broadcasting company – YLE

Dataset: Over 200 historical press related photographs on e.g. equipment and people participating in radio broadcasts and early tv productions.
License: No known copyright restrictions (Public Domain)
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ylearkisto/albums

Dataset: Over 1000 sound effects, recorded during the last 70 years using various techniques
License: CC BY
Link: https://www.freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/

Dataset:  89 clips of silent films presenting the Finnish nature, countryside and life in the cities. A few clips from the year 1918 also included.
License: CC BY
Link: https://vimeo.com/ylearkisto

Dataset:  Radio and TV program registers and metadata about the articles and medias of the Yle Elävä arkisto (Finnish) and Yle Arkivet (Swedish) online archives
License: CC0
Link: http://elavaarkisto.kokeile.yle.fi/data/

List of all Yle’s open data set (in Finnish)

Contact: Tuomas Nolvi, tuomas.nolvi[a]yle.fi


National Library of Finland

Dataset: Finna-metadata and resources

The API provides a way to perform searches to the material provided by the organizations (Finnish libraries, archives and museums) participating in Finna.fi. For example the metadata of Fennica – the Finnish National Bibliography and Viola – the Finnish National Discography are included in the API. The Library Network Services unit of the National Library is responsible for the maintenance and development of the interface. Inquiries and feedback on the API:  finna-posti AT helsinki.fi

Examples and more information: https://www.kiwi.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=53839221

Licence: CC0

Link: api.finna.fi (swagger)

Contact: Piia Naukkarinen piia.naukkarinen{@} helsinki.fi, service designer, National Library of Finland

Other Datasets from National Library:

Data Sets

Other APIs from National Library:

https://www.kiwi.fi/display/Datacatalog/APIsv


Mannerheim Museum

Dataset:  The Mannerheim Museum offers photographs of Gustaf Mannerheim participating public events at the start of a young new republic forming and taking its first steps (1918 to the beginning of the 1920’s). Publicity and a public identity were an important instrument for Mannerheim and a natural state of being.  Do the photographs reveal as to how Gustaf Mannerheim experienced his role as a public figure? Or in reverse, how the soldier, brought up in the public eye and lifted up to a high public position, related to his momentary private life in the 1920’s?

License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mannerheimmuseo/albums/72157695942750920

Contact: Liisa Oikari, head of collections, liisa.oikari@mannerheim-museo.fi


Gallen-Kallela Museum

The Gallen-Kallela Museum offers three sets of open data from the museum collections.

Data set:  Photographs from Suomenlinna fortress in 1918. The dataset consist of 52 photographs that were taken in Suomenlinna fortress in 1918. During and after the Civil War in Finland Red Guard prisoners were kept in Suomenlinna in prison camps. The photographer is unknown.

License: CC0, No known copyright restrictions
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gallen-kallelanmuseo/albums/72157696212222604

Possible ideas & scenarios for creative use: Could be used in the 1918 -track

Data set: Akseli In Africa. 169 photographs from the early 20th century East Africa. Artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela lived with his family in British East Africa, now Kenya, during the years 1909–1910, and enjoyed his stay there. He painted and together the family photographed, went on safaris and assembled an ethnographical and zoological collection.

License: CC0, No known copyright restrictions
Link:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/gallen-kallelanmuseo/albums/72157645931858293

Possible ideas & scenarios for creative use: Are you familiar with the Kenyan cultures? Could you offer more information, new points of view or make a re-reading of the images? For more information check also: http://taideavain.net/gkm/kenya/

Dataset: List of Mary Gallén’s piano student’s  1910s-1930s, xlsx. Amongst her many talents, Mary Gallén, wife of the artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, was a musician, a concert pianist. During 1910-1930’s she excelled as a piano teacher. The list shows Mary’s 168 piano students.

License: CC0
Link: http://www.gallen-kallela.fi/kokoelmat/arkistot/henkiloasiakirjat-ja-muu-arkistoaineisto/maryn_oppilaat/

Contact: 
Salla Tiainen, head of museum education and public programmes, salla.tiainen@gallen-kallela.fi
Minna Turtiainen, head of collections, minna.turtiainen@gallen-kallela.fi


Music Archive Finland

Music Archive Finland offers three datasets, which includes background information about respondent and their response. Please note that the datasets are in Finnish.

Dataset: Mihin jäi punk? (Where did punk go?)

Mihin jäi punk? -survey collected memories of the first wave of a Finnish punk movement: What was it like to be a punk in 1977 – 1982?

Dataset includes 36 responses and background information: gender, date of birth, place of domicile at the moment and the role.

License: CC BY, Juho Hänninen

Link: https://www.avoindata.fi/data/fi/dataset/mihin-jai-punk-keruuhankkeen-muistelut

Dataset: Fanimuistot talteen (Reminiscences of fandom)

The oral history material of the “Fanimuistot talteen” -survey was collected in 2011 – 2012 by Janne Poikolainen, who used the data in his dissertation. The “Fanimuistot talteen” -survey consists of written memories and perceptions of fandom and popular music.

Dataset includes 107 responses and background information: gender, date of birth, artist/band.

License: CC BY 4.0, Janne Poikolainen & Music Archive Finland

Link: https://www.avoindata.fi/data/fi/dataset/fanimuistot-talteen

Dataset: Itsenäisyyden laulut (Songs of independence)

In 2016 Helsinki City Museum and  Music Archive Finland carried out Itsenäisyyden laulut -project to collect memories and perceptions of songs from different decades. It was part of Suomi Finland 100 centenary celebration year. Survey was done with a questionnaire, which included same question about each decade (see below) and background information: gender, age scale, level of education,  place of domicile: Helsinki / Helsinki metropolitan area / other city / locality / countryside / foreign countries. “What song comes to your mind when you think 1920´s-2010´s Finland? Why this song especially?”

Dataset includes 275 responses and background information.

License: CC BY 4.0, Helsinki City Museum, Music Archive Finland

Link: https://www.avoindata.fi/data/fi/dataset/itsenaisyyden-laulut-muistitietoaineisto

Contact: Maaret Storgårds, Music Archive Finland, maaret@musiikkiarkisto.fi

 


National Museum of Finland

Description of the data set:  Markka (eng. mark)
The mark is originally an old North European unit of weight, which also has been used as a unit for reckoning money. In the early 16th century it was struck as a silver coin in northern Germany and soon thereafter in the Baltic and Nordic countries. In Germany it was already in the 16th century superseded by the taler, but in Hamburg the 16 schilling coin was later officially known as a mark.

The Swedish medieval coinage system was reorganized at the time of Gustav Vasa  (1496 –1560, King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560). In Sweden the mark was divided into 8 öres, 24 örtugs and 192 pennies. At first only pennies and örtugs were struck, followed by öres in 1521. The first Swedish mark coins were minted in 1536. In 1556–58 both round coins and klippings (square coins) were also struck in Turku castle (Finland).

The mark was used in Sweden until 1776, when riksdaler became the basic unit. When Finland in 1860 was granted a monetary unit of its own, it was named the mark. The name was at that time not used elsewhere, but the situation changed when United Germany adopted the mark in 1871. In Sweden, riksdalers were replaced by crowns in 1873. The Finnish markka was the currency of Finland until 28 February 2002, when it ceased to be legal tender.

Licence: CC BY 4.0.

Link to the dataset

Contact information: Jere Leskinen jere.leskinen@kansallismuseo.fi, National Museum of Finland


The Finnish Museum of Photography

Dataset: Nearly 600 photographs from the Museum’s collections available on museum’s Flickr account.

  • The collection of Central Union of Consumer Co-operatives (KK) feature images of urbanisation, industrialisation and the emergence of consumer culture. The vantage point is that of the working class. We see work and workers move from villages to cities, from fields to assembly lines.
  • Helsinki street views in early summer mornings, photographed by I.K. Inha in 1908-1909.
  • Finnish Landscape and tourist attractions in The Finnish Tourism Association’s collection.
  • Finnish agriculture photographed by I.K. Inha in 1899 as a commission for the World’s Fair (Exposition Universelle) in Paris in 1900. Including individual portraits of cows and bulls posing next to their owners.
  • Salon Strindberg: Studio portraits of the Finnish cultural elite in the early 20th century.
  • Early curiosities: Daguerreotypes and Autochrome (early colour photographs).
  • Photos of Jean Sibelius and his surroundings in Ainola.

License: CC0

Link to the data set

Contact information:

Laura Gelmi, curator of collections, laura.gelmi(at)fmp.fi, tel. 050 347 1475
Anni Wallenius, chief curator of collections, anni.wallenius(at)fmp.fi, tel. 041 440 6387


Finnish National Gallery

Artworks from the Collection of the Finnish National Gallery

Copyright-free artworks from the collection of the Finnish National Gallery (Ateneum Art Museum and Sinebrychoff Art Museum). Over 12,000 images of artworks from Old Masters to the best-known and most-beloved Finnish artists and international masters from the turn of 20th century.

Licence: CC0

Link to the dataset: http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?lang=en

Please note that the images can’t be downloaded as a dataset, but one by one.

Description: Finnish National Gallery collection metadata
Licence CC0
Link to the dataset http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/api/v2support/docs/#/overview
Possible ideas & scenarios for creative use: see the track Sibelius and the musical matchbox

Description:  Discovering Hugo Simberg

The album contains a free release of photographs taken by the Finnish artist Hugo Simberg in 1891–1917. Simberg (1873–1917), one of Finland’s most beloved artists, was an avid photographer who documented his family, surroundings and travels. Roughly half of the pictures feature summertime scenes at the family estate Niemenlautta on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Simberg also used photographs as an aid in his work. Most of the 997 pictures have been taken by Simberg himself. The negatives are included in the Hugo Simberg Archive which belongs to the Finnish National Gallery Archive Collections. Instead of negative images, digital positives are presented in the Flickr album.

Description:  Historical photos of Ateneum

13 old photos of from the Archive Collections of the Finnish National Gallery showing the Ateneum building and the activities inside: art school and exhibitions from the turn of the 20th century

Description: Glass negatives by Daniel Nyblin

Unique collection of glass negatives by the prominent early photographer Daniel Nyblin (1856–1923) active in Finland. Photos taken in 1879–1904. Contemporary Finnish art from the turn of the 20th century: Nyblin recorded on glass negatives newly completed or first-exhibited Finnish art works.

Description: Kiasma under construction 1996–98

Construction of the museum building, designed by the American architect Steven Holl, along Mannerheimintie in Helsinki began in 1996, and Kiasma was opened to the public in 1998. The album showcases the construction phase with 23 photos.

Description: The Kiasma building

The album presents the Kiasma building with its surroundings with 77 photos. Designed by the American architect Steven Holl, Kiasma was completed in 1998. The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma is located on Mannerheimintie in the centre of Helsinki. It is part of the Finnish National Gallery.

Contact information Hanna-Leena Paloposki, chief curator, Finnish National Gallery, hanna-leena.paloposki@fng.fi


Helsinki Region Infoshare (Open data service of the cities in Helsinki Metropolitan Area)

Contact information: www.hri.fihri@hel.fi, @HRInfoshare

Possible ideas & scenarios for creative use: You might get some inspiration by browsing our app gallery https://hri.fi/data/en_GB/showcase


Wikimedia Suomi & Ajapaik

Dataset: Currently geotagged free images from Finna in Ajapaik
License: CC0 (data) Creative Commos (photos) MIT licence (code)
Link:  https://ajapaik.ee/api/v1/source/?query=finna.fi

Software: Ajapaik Android app
Source code: https://github.com/Ajapaik/ajapaik-android-app
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ee.ajapaik.android


 

Data sets 2017

Here is all the open data, content and tools in use in Hack4FI 2017. Other open datasets are naturally open for use as well, but each work should utilise at least one of the datasets presented below. Please see the tracks to obtain more information and context.

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Aalto University Archives

Dataset: Historic photographs, drawings and teaching resources documenting art, architecture, design and technology education and student life from late 19th century onwards. Historic teaching resources include an image set from The Paris World Exhibition 1889 and drawings by notable teachers including architect Gustaf Nyström and sculptor Johann Friedl.
License: No known copyright restrictions (Public Domain)
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaltocommons/albums/ & https://www.aalto.finna.fi

Contact: Tove Ørsted, tove.orsted[a]aalto.fi

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City of Helsinki / Helsinki Region Infoshare

Examples of data sets regarding Helsinki and Helsinki Region:

You can find more open data at Helsinki Region Infoshare service www.hri.fi/en.

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Finna.fi

Dataset 1: Open API with 13 million records of metadata from over 200 Finnish archives, libraries and museums.
License: CC0
Link: https://api.finna.fi

Dataset 2: Over 360 000 open images, text files, maps, artworks and videos from Finnish cultural heritage institutions
License: Public Domain Mark, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA
Link: http://bit.ly/2oYn3Md

Contact: Maria Virtanen, maria.virtanen[a]helsinki.fi, Piia Naukkarinen, piia.naukkarinen[a]helsinki.fi and Jyrki Messo, jyrki.messo[a]helsinki.fi

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Finnish broadcasting company – YLE

Open data provided by Yle:

Yle’s data sets

Yle’s data sets on tv and radio programs

National Audiovisiual Institute Kavi data sets on TV programs and films

Yle Api to access current program information etc.

Dataset: Over 200 historical press related photographs on e.g. equipment and people participating in radio broadcasts and early tv productions.
License: No known copyright restrictions (Public Domain)
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ylearkisto/albums

Dataset: Over 800 sound Effects, recorded during the last 70 years using various techniques.
License: CC BY
Link: https://www.freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/

Dataset: Over 60 clips of silent old black and white films presenting the Finnish nature, countryside and life in the cities. A few clips from the year 1918 (the Finnish Civil War) also included.
License: CC BY
Link: https://vimeo.com/ylearkisto

Contact: Tuomas Nolvi, tuomas.nolvi[a]yle.fi and Katja Bargum, katja.bargun[a]yle.fi

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Helsinki City Museum

(Helsingin kaupunginmuseo)

Dataset 1: Over 43 000 photographs and digitised art and objects from the early 20th to the early 21st century in full resolution.
License: CC BY
Link: http://hkm.finna.fi, http://api.finna.fi

Dataset 2: Signe Brander’s panoramic photos of Helsinki from the early 20th century in full resolution. Includes small hand drawn maps that show the place and orientation of the image.
License: CC BY
Link:http://www.hri.fi/en/dataset/signe-branderin-panoraamakuvat-1900-luvun-alun-helsingista

Contact: Aki Pohjankyrö, aki.pohjankyro[a]hel.fi, tel. 040 3347 020

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Museums of Varkaus & the Central archives for Finnish business records (ELKA)

Dataset: Information and images on ships built on the Pirtinniemi dockyard between 1862-1964. Information includes e.g. name and type of ship, name of mandator and measurements. The dataset is in Finnish.
License: CC0
Link: https://www.laivadata.fi/

Contact: Hanna-Kaisa Melaranta, hanna-kaisa.melaranta[a]varkaus.fi

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Teosto (Finnish Composers’ Copyright Society)

Dataset: The data includes all of the live events reported to Teosto by event organizers, performers and services that provide event information. This is the largest live music event database in Finland. We’ve also included location information on region, municipality and venue levels to help you get something more out of our data.
License: http://api.teosto.fi/termsandconditions.html#english-terms-and-conditions
Link: http://api.teosto.fi

Contact: Turo Pekari, turo.pekari[a]teosto.fi

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The Gallen-Kallela Museum (Gallen-Kallelan museo)

In 1918 Akseli Gallen-Kallela fought on the frontline of the Finnish Civil War for two weeks. Afterwards he was invited by General Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim to design flags, official decorations, uniforms and more for the new, independent Finland. Akseli Gallen-Kallela also served as Mannerheim’s adjutant in 1919. He painted several portraits of Mannerheim, including the famous portrait commissioned in 1928 by the Union Bank of Finland where Mannerheim served as president of the board (this painting is now in the Mannerheim Museum).

Dataset 1: Photographs of Gustaf Mannerheim and events related to the Finnish Civil War.
License: No known copyright restrictions (Public Domain)
Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gallen-kallelanmuseo/albums/72157679840647223

Dataset 2: Archive material associated to Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Gustaf Mannerheim and the Finnish Civil War.
License: No known copyright restrictions (Public Domain)
Link: http://halooakseli.fi/collections/en/carl-gustav-emil-mannerheim

Dataset 3: Images of artworks by Gallen-Kallela in Wikimedia Commons. Theme Gustaf Mannerheim and the Finnish Civil War.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Media+contributed+by+The+Gallen-Kallela+Museum%2BCarl+Gustaf+Emil+Mannerheim&title=Special:Search&go=Go&searchToken=aiu1fr18dhx09o03j5ssmlwqx

Contact: Minna Turtiainen, minna.turtiainen[a]gallen-kallela.fi, Salla Tiainen, salla.tiainen[a]gallen-kallela.fi, Liisa Oikari, liisa.oikari[a]gallen-kallela.fi

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The Mannerheim Museum (Mannerheim-Museo)

Dataset: Images of artworks by Akseli Gallen-Kallela in Wikimedia Commons. The artworks have been in the possession of Gustaf Mannerheim.

The portrait in the dataset was commissioned by the Union Bank of Finland when Mannerheim served as president of the board. The two other pieces were given to Mannerheim by Gallen-Kallela and his family, and are an important part of his home interior.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/The_Mannerheim_Museum

Contact: Liisa Oikari, liisa.oikari[a]gallen-kallela.fi

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The National Board of Antiquities

Dataset: 130 000 low resolution images including e.g. old prints, images of sceneries and people from the 19th century and the entire range of Finnish 20th century imagery. The images feature history and ethnology, Finno-Ugric culture, maritime history, architecture and cultural landscapes. There are also images from around the world, as the comparative collections include the picture collection of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission and images taken by Finnish researchers around the world at the beginning of the 20th century.
License: CC BY
Link: Images in finna.fi

Contact: Hannu Häkkinen, hannu.hakkinen[a]museovirasto.fi, tel. 029533 6103