Open Data from a mixed on-premise and cloud environment at the Finnish Meteorological Institute

Finnish Meteorological Institute has a long history of providing open data. Partly as a result of the INSPIRE directive almost all important data was opened back in 2013. Because of this we have quite a long data usage record and experience on technical solutions and user needs. The presentation will open up the current status and future development keeping in mind the upcoming WMO WIS2 development as well as the Open Data directive with its High Value Dataset proposal.

Data is provided via machine-readable interfaces as well as human usable web interfaces. We use on-premise storage and interfaces and in addition offer cloud-based distribution via Amazon Public Dataset program. The current operational interfaces are based on WFS 2.0, WMS and Amazon S3. Most recently added datasets include weather and flood warnings in Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) format and radar data archive via Amazon S3 in GeoTIFF and HDF5 formats. There is development ongoing for providing data via even more developer-friendly interfaces such as the OGC EDR and OGC Features API. Also new data is being added continuously based on our own and user needs.

An impact study has also been conducted for the usage of data from 2018 which revealed some findings on what data is used and how it impacts the users and their potential businesses. Also valuable information on the future needs of users was gathered and the most important findings of this study will be presented during the session. Based on these findings an impact dashboard is currently being setup to continuously monitor the impact and usage of our open data offering.