From Data to Intelligence: a FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow

“From Data to Intelligence: a FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow” 

This Roadshow event at Aalto University showcases scientific terminology work supporting researchers with the new language recommendations now being implemented, and introduces latest related infrastructures and research. We also wish to raise awareness of the resources, services and collaboration networks offered via FIN-CLARIAH. During the event, you will learn about The Helsinki Term Bank for the Arts and Sciences and see how you can utilize and contribute to it. In invited talks we present Finnish ontology resources available that can be used to engineer consistent terminologies for different research purposes and applications, and local researchers present their research illustrating the relevance of concepts, terminologies and ontologies for both human sciences and engineering. More widely, we wish to foster discussion on concept-aware AI.

Date: 25 March 2026, 12:45-15:30

Where: Aalto – TUAS Atrium (Maarintie 8, 02150 Espoo)

Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/6Y9NV3QtM7 This event is free but requires registration. Please register no later  than 20.3. to ensure refreshments or to follow the event remotely.

Preliminary schedule:

12:45 Welcome coffee

Introduction to the infrastructure and to the field of Terminology

13:00 FIN-CLARIAH Introduction

13:10 Finding, using and sharing research data via Kielipankki – the Language Bank of Finland (Mietta Lennes, University of Helsinki)

13:20 Introduction to “Terminology work at Aalto University” with Minna Söderqvist, Head of Doctoral Education Services at Aalto University and Päivi Väätänen, Planning Officer (ARTS), Aalto University (Moderator Harri Kettunen)

13:30 “How Can I Contribute to the Reliability of Information?” with Nathaly Pinto Torres & Harri Kettunen

13:50 Q&A

Tools and application scenarios for terminology engineering, concept aware AI

14:15 National Ontology and Linked Open Data Infrastructure and Data Services (Osma Suominen, National Library of Finland)

14:30 Case Study: Analysis of genre evolution in Finnish fiction literature using BookSampo’s annotated genres (Annastiina Ahola, Aalto University)

14:45 Case Study: Utilizing annotated keywords for prosopographical data analysis in Sampo systems (Petri Leskinen, University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Geneva Graduate Institute)

15:00 Tbd

Final discussion

FIN-CLARIAH is the Finnish digital research infrastructure (RI) for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) connecting ten universities as well as memory organisations in collaboration with CSC to facilitate the use, refinement, preservation and sharing of research data for the SSH researchers in Finland. FIN-CLARIAH has two parts: FIN-CLARIN integrates language resources and tools for processing language data through Kielipankki – the Language Bank of Finland and DARIAH-FI joins a network of researchers with methodological expertise from SSH to data science developing versatile analysis tools and supporting big data approaches.