The Institute’s aim is to open its data resources by digitizing its linguistic corpora and making them available online to a broad audience.
Licencing
The Institute’s current and future electronic language corpora that are public and without legislative or contractual limitations on their use will be opened up as public data resources, under a Creative Commons licence and in machine-readable format. In accordance with recommendation JHA 189 based on the Finnish Act on the Openness of Government Activities, the primary licence is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Previously, the Institute has used GNU and EUPL licences. Current licences also include CLARIN.
In addition to the open data resources, the Institute has scientific corpora that are subject to licence, usually in the interests of protecting personal information.
Metadata from the Institute’s archives are available via following services
Electronic material
This is a list of the Institute’s corpora and material available online free of charge. Some corpora have their own interface, while other can be accessed via common platforms.
Corpora of Old Literary Finnish
Martti Rapola's 19th century vocabulary (in Sanat; license CC BY 4.0)
Corpus of Old Literary Finnish (also available in Korp; licenses: CLARIN PUB, EUPL v. 1.1)
Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish
Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish as an XML file (instant download) (license CC BY 4.0)
Frequency List of Old Literary Finnish
Corpus of Early Modern Finnish
Frequency List of Early Modern Finnish
Corpora of Modern Finnish
Corpora of Modern Finnish
Vocabulary of Modern Finnish (licences: GNU LGPL, EUPL v. 1.1, CC Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0)
Parole Frequency List
Classics of Finnish Literature
New Year’s Speeches of the President of the Republic(also available in Korp; license: EUPL)
Swedish Vocabulary
Onomastic Corpora
Digital Names Archive
Inflection of first names
http://kaino.kotus.fi/sukunimientaivutus/
Corpus of Settlement Names
Names of Countries in Seven Languages
Swedish Place Names in Finland
Greek toponyms
Dictionary of Swedish Toponymy Elements (also available in Sanat-service)
Names Archive Database
Place Name Database (license: CC Attribution 4.0)
Atlas of Place Names
Place Names and Local Stories
Place Names in Slang (collected from schools) (also available in Sanat-service)
Johan Haberman’s Land Survey Register
Land Survey Register of Sääminki and Rantasalmi
Lars Röös’s Property Assessment for the Land Register of Pien-Savo
Land Survey Register of Northern Pien-Savo
Land Survey Register of Savo from years 1561-1564
Dialect corpora
Lauri Kettunen's dialect atlas (Fairdata.fi; license: CC BY 4.0)
Dialect Corpus of the Finnish Syntax Archive (in cooperation with the Finnish Syntax Archive at the University of Turku; license: CC Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0)
Tape Archive’s Collection Database
Dictionary of Swedish Dialects in Finland
Collection of Finnish Proverbs (also available in Korp; license EUPL)
Proverb slips digitised as images (National Archives of Finland)
Samples of Finnish
Dictionary of Finnish Dialects
Dictionary of Finnish Dialects as an XML-file (instant download)
Distribution maps of the Dictionary of Finnish Dialects (Fairdata.fi; license: CC BY 4.0)
Etymology corpora
Álgu, Etymological Database of the Saami Languages
Álgu as an XML file (instant download) (license: CC BY 4.0)
Etymological Reference Database
Other Uralic Languages corpora
Anarâškielâ ravvuuh – language guide to Inari Saame (pdf)
Finnic Language Atlas (Fairdata.fi; license: CC BY 4.0)
Online Dictionary of Karelian
Dictionary of Karelian as an XML file (instant download) (license: CC BY 4.0)
List of Entries in the Dictionary of Karelian
E. V. Ahtia’s Karelian Syntax (PDF)
E. V. Ahtia’s Manuscript for Karelian Syntax (PDF)
E. V. Ahtia’s Karelian Word Derivation (PDF)
E. V. Ahtia’s Karelian Lexicology and Phonology (PDF)
Online Veps Language Dictionary (also in Sanat-service)
Sosva. Vocabulary of Northern Mansi