Provided are resources for gathering, harmonizing, enriching, and summarizing structured metadata from the Finnish National Library, in particular the National Bibliography Fennica. The open data and workflows can be used in research, training, and outreach. Further metadata resources are available for complementary cultural heritage from archives, libraries, museums, and other actors. This resource expands the scope of the metadata collections that are seamlessly interlinked with statistical environment, enhancing the integration of Finna and Finto with Fennica.
Provided resources:
1. Systematic approach to retrieve Finna metadata into open computing environments is implemented as open software finna. This uses REST API and OAI-PMH API for data retrieval. The release version is available through CRAN repository.
2. Data science methods to enrich structured metadata from Finna and Fennica are provided via the finto R package based on actor cross-linking. This provides fluent access to Finto keyword service (finto.fi) from R statistical environment and allows interaction with Finto service. Examples regarding Fennica author enrichment using Kanto/Finto are available via the package vignette.
3. Data analysis and visualization techniques to support the research use of cultural heritage metadata collections are provided via the finna package and demonstrated in the package vignettes. Geospatial analysis and visualization of metadata from Finna and Fennica is further supported by the maintained geofi package.
Resource links:
Information and guidance can be found from the websites of the resources.
Basis:
A harmonized version of the Finnish national bibliography (Fennica) dataset as well as the code used for cleaning, enriching and automatically generating reports on the data:
Access to resource: https://fennica-fennica.2.rahtiapp.fi/
Code use to harmonize metadata: https://github.com/fennicahub/fennica
Information and guidance can be found in the website of the resource.
This resource group page has a Persistent Identifier: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2026083101
Last modified on 2026-09-01
