1. Research data storage service IDA
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2. Open Science and Research Initiative 2014-2017
Ministry of Education and Culture initiative for the promotion of information availability and open science
Goal is to make Finland a leading country in openness of science and research by the year 2017
The initiative scope includes research publications, data, and methods
Several open science services are offered by the Ministry to researchers
openscience.fi

3. Open Science and Research services
Services offered by the Ministry of Education and Culture
Services provided by various partners, incl. CSC
Services free of charge to end-users
Services recommended by research funders, e.g. the Academy of Finland
Existing services are developed continuously and new services piloted within the initiative

4. For whom are the services offered?
The services can be utilized by a single researcher, a research group or a research network operating across organizations
Research organizations can offer their data to be published in the services and utilize their storage quota
The Ministry of Education and Culture offers the services to the actors in the Finnish research system so the services are free of charge to end-users

5. Why use the services? Risks related to data loss and misuse decrease
Data are safely stored for reuse and have a permanent identifier enabling e.g. citation
You may use others’ data and share your own facilitating collaboration in research groups and between organizations
Openness increases the visibility of research
Support for data policies and answers to funder requirements
Several services and customer support free of charge

6. What can one do with the services?
Open science services support various stages of the research process and levels of openness
You can store, describe and share your data
You can also search and utilize data from others
Data is managed within the service portfolio using unique and permanent identifiers
The descriptive information enables controlled data sharing and ensures that the author and owner of data gain merit

7. Services support stages of the research process
Open data publishing platform
Data management planning tool
Long-term preservation service for research
Research data finder
Research data storage service

8. IDA research data storage service

9. IDA is a research data storage service for researchers in Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences as well as researchers funded by the Academy of Finland
Several user interfaces and secure storage procedures designed for stable datasets and raw data
Data owners decide on the openness and data usage policy
Will form part of the long-term preservation system of research data
Continuous service offered by MINEDU and produced by CSC
openscience.fi/ida

10. IDA enables
Storage space usage via browser, command line or file transfer program
Secure storage procedures with data replication and a geographical distance to the organization
Project-based access to data e.g. within a research group, also across organizational boundaries
Automatic creation of metadata (e.g. persistent identifiers assigned) and data publishing when desired
Data stored in IDA are among the first candidates for the long-term research data preservation service 

11. Becoming an IDA user Submit your application online:
User rights quotas assigned to universities, universities of applied sciences and Academy of Finland
Division based on Ministry indicators
Universities manage their quotas independently
One contact person per university approves the project applications
Submit your application online:
Instructions:
Additional quota may be applied yearly

12. IDA browser use

13. IDA command line use iput file move file to IDA
iget file retrieve file from IDA
ils list the current IDA directory
icd dir change the IDA directory
irm file remove file from IDA
imv file file move file inside IDA
imeta command view and edit metadata
imkdir create a directory to IDA
iinit initialize your IDA account

14. File transfer program

15. Services support good data management

16. Service portfolio

17. Supporting varied degrees of openness
METADATA
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18. Promoting openness Agree on ownership and copyright issues
Document these as part of your dataset’s description in Etsin
Take care of licencing the research results
Open science and research initiative recommends the CC BY 4.0 licence for data
Metadata is published under the CC0 waiver
Utilize the service infrastructure offered for research data
Store your data in IDA and offer it to be published in AVAA

19. More information and contacts
Open science service homepages and instructions
openscience.fi/services
Open science contact address
CSC Service Desk
weekdays 8:30-16:00