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Open-source tools and Open Science practices inspiring co-creation of geospatial data infrastructures – reflections from Finland and Tanzania

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Geoportti Research Infrastructure (Geoportti RI) provides Finnish scientists with an easy access to geospatial data and geocomputing resources at centralized high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure at the IT Center for Science (CSC).Geoportti RI's objective is to encourage widespread utilization of geographical data and geoinformatics methods in both research and university education.Furthermore, it seeks to stimulate innovation in geospatial data and digital technology on a broader societal scale.The Geoportti research infrastructure has been co-created through 20 years of cooperation between key geospatial research and academic institutions in Finland.During the last few years, more emphasis has been put on research competence, innovation, and excellence development, alongside a significant upgrade of a number of the existing services.Currently, Geoportti RI consists of seven categories of services (Figure 1): 1) Geodata and metadata services, 2) Research data and source code storing and sharing services, 3) Emerging technology laboratories and tools services, 4) High-performance computing (HPC) geoprocessing and geoanalytics services, 5) Virtualization services, 6) Skills

Source: Abstracts of the ICA

DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-7-69-2024