Finna is a database of digital materials by more than 100 Finnish museums, archives and libraries.[1][2] It provides a unified interface to access the materials of the participating institutions.[3] The contents of the service are mostly available with a permissive license, but some contents are not licensed for commercial use.[1] It contains more than 10 million entries[4], includind printed texts, maps and recordings of various types, and more than 300.000 photographs of events and museom objects and other works of art.[1][2][4]
Launched in October 2013, the open-source service is developed and maintained by the National Library of Finland using public funds, while the various organizations that use the platform provide the materiel.[4][5][6][7] Development of the service began in 2012 as part of Ministry of Education and Culture's National Digital Library initiative,[8][9] and the project was at the time "the most extensive co-operation project between liraries, archives and museums in Finland."[9]
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