User:Ljleppan/Finna

Finna is a database of digital materials by more than 100 Finnish museums, archives and libraries. It provides a unified interface to access the materials of the participating institutions. The contents of the service are mostly available with a permissive license, but some contents are not licensed for commercial use. It contains more than 10 million entries, 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.

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. Development of the service began in 2012 as part of Ministry of Education and Culture's National Digital Library initiative, and the project was at the time "the most extensive co-operation project between liraries, archives and museums in Finland."