Digital Cultural Heritage at the National Library of Finland

Short presentation about how digital cultural heritage is created and collected by the National Library of Finland

E-PORT. Improving efficiency of Finnish port community by intelligent systems Final report of the Mobile Port project

The management of port-related supply chains is challenging due to the complex and heterogeneous operations of the ports with several actors and processes. That is why the importance of information sharing is emphasised in the ports. However, the information exchange between different port-related actors is often cumbersome and it still involves a lot of manual work and paper. Major ports and port-related actors usually have advanced information systems in daily use but these systems are seldom interoperable with each other, which prevents economies of scale to be reached. Smaller ports and companies might not be equipped with electronic data transmission at all. This is the final report of the Mobile port (MOPO) project, which has sought ways to improve the management and control of port-related sea and inland traffic with the aid of ICT technologies. The project has studied port community systems (PCS) used worldwide, evaluated the suitability of a PCS for the Finnish port operating environment and created a pilot solution of a Finnish PCS in the port of HaminaKotka. Further, the dry port concept and its influences on the transportation system have been explored. The Mobile Port project comprised of several literature reviews, interviews of over 50 port-related logistics and/or ICT professionals, two different kinds of simulation models as well as designing and implementing of the pilot solution of the Finnish PCS. The results of these multiple studies are summarised in this report. Furthermore, recommendations for future actions and the topics for further studies are addressed in the report. The study revealed that the information sharing in a typical Finnish port-related supply chain contains several bottlenecks that cause delays in shipments and waste resources. The study showed that many of these bottlenecks could be solved by building a port community system for the Finnish port community. Almost 30 different kinds of potential services or service entities of a Finnish PCS were found out during the study. The basic requirements, structure, interfaces and operation model of the Finnish PCS were also defined in the study. On the basis of the results of the study, a pilot solution of the Finnish PCS was implemented in the port of HaminaKotka. The pilot solution includes a Portconnect portal for the Finnish port community system (available at https://www.portconnect.fi) and two pilot applications, which are a service for handling the information flows concerning the movements of railway wagons and a service for handling the information flows between Finnish ports and Finland-Russian border. The study also showed that port community systems can be used to improve the environmental aspects of logistics in two different ways: 1) PCSs can bring direct environmental benefits and 2) PCSs can be used as an environmental tool in a port community. On the basis of the study, the development of the Finnish port community system should be continued by surveying other potential applications for the Finnish PCS. It is also important to study if there is need and resources to extend the Finnish PCS to operate in several ports or even on a national level. In the long run, it could be reasonable to clarify whether there would be possibilities to connect the Finnish PCS as a part of Baltic Sea wide, European-wide or even worldwide maritime and port-related network in order to get the best benefit from the system

National Library of Finland – Developing National Infrastructures

Presentation for the delegation of the National Science and Technology Library, PRC

"Kyrkans egna angelägenheter" : en kyrkorättslig undersökning av kyrkans egna angelägenheter i kyrkolagstiftningen om Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland

I JD, docent Pekka Leinos avhandling i kyrkorätt analyseras hur begreppet ”endast kyrkans egna angelägenheter” har uppfattats av Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Finland i 1869, 1964 och 1993 års kyrkolagar. Det är fråga om hur man i dessa författningar (kyrkolagarna, kyrkoordningen) uppfattar synen på kyrkan, kyrkans lära, kyrkorätten och lutherdomens väsen. I avhandlingen analyseras hur man som ”endast [blott] kyrkans egna angelägenheter” (§ 14 i 1869 års kyrkolag) har förstått kyrkans apostoliska undervisning och den praxis som man i enlighet med den följt i kyrkan, så som reformatorerna förstod denna när lutherdomen uppstod, och så som den kommer till uttryck i evangelisk-lutherska kyrkans bekännelseskrifter. I avhandlingen vidareutvecklas den kyrkorättsliga doktrin som författaren började med i sin tidigare doktorsavhandling Kirkkolaki vai laki kirkosta som var en rättsvetenskaplig och lagsystematisk undersökning av det unika kyrkolagssystemet i Finland. Den förra avhandlingen koncentrerade sig på kyrkan som en sociologisk gemenskap eller ett rättssamfund och på kyrkolagen som en juridisk författning, medan det nya perspektivet i denna avhandling i högre grad är att kyrkan är en trosgemenskap och innehållet i de tre kyrkolagarna analyseras utgående från detta perspektiv. Kyrkan verkar som en trosgemenskap i enlighet med sin lära. Särskild vikt fästs i denna avhandling vid hur ärenden som gäller kyrkans lära har förståtts som endast kyrkans egna angelägenheter samt om man över huvud, och i så fall hur, genom kyrkolagen kan göra kyrkans lära och dess trossatser till en del av den nationella rättsordningen. Med tanke på den kyrkorättsliga doktrinen är det centralt att utreda på vad den i kyrkan rådande uppfattningen av kyrkorätt och kyrkans rätt grundar sig.

Oil Transportation in the Gulf of Finland in 2020 and 2030

This study is part of the Minimizing risks of maritime oil transport by holistic safety strategies (MIMIC) project. The purpose of this study is to provide a current state analysis of oil transportation volumes in the Baltic Sea and to create scenarios for oil transportation in the Gulf of Finland for the years 2020 and 2030. Future scenarios and information about oil transportation will be utilized in the modelling of oil transportation risks, which will be carried out as part of the MIMIC project. Approximately 290 million tons of oil and oil products were transported in the Baltic Sea in 2009, of which 55% (160 million tons) via the Gulf of Finland. Oil transportation volumes in the Gulf of Finland have increased from 40 million to almost 160 million tonnes over the last ten years. In Russia and Estonia, oil transportation mainly consists of export transports of the Russian oil industry. In Finnish ports in the Gulf of Finland, the majority of oil traffic is concentrated to the port of Sköldvik, while the remainder mainly consists of different oil products for domestic use. Transit transports to/from Russia make up small volumes of oil transportation. The largest oil ports in the Gulf of Finland are Primorsk, Tallinn, St. Petersburg and Sköldvik. The basis for the scenarios for the years 2020 and 2030 is formed by national energy strategies, the EU`s climate and energy strategies as well other energy and transportation forecasts for the years 2020 and 2030. Three alternative scenarios were produced for both 2020 and 2030. The oil volumes are based on the expert estimates of nine specialists. The specialists gave three volumes for each scenario: the expected oil transport volumes, and the minimum and maximum volumes. Variations in the volumes between the scenarios are not large, but each scenario tends to have rather a large difference between the figures for minimum and maximum volumes. This variation between the minimum and maximum volumes ranges around 30 to 40 million tonnes depending on the scenario. On the basis of this study, no a dramatic increase in oil transportation volumes in the Gulf of Finland is to be expected. Most of the scenarios only forecasted a moderate growth in maritime oil transportation compared to the current levels. The effects of the European energy policy favouring renewable energy sources can be seen in the 2030 scenarios, in which the transported oil volumes are smaller than in the 2020 scenarios. In the Slow development 2020 scenario, oil transport volumes for 2020 are expected to be 170.6 Mt (million tonnes), in the Average development 2020 187.1 Mt and in the Strong development 2020 201.5 Mt. The corresponding oil volumes for the 2030 scenarios were 165 Mt for the Stagnating development 2030 scenario, 177.5 Mt for the Towards a greener society 2030 scenario and 169.5 Mt in the Decarbonising society 2030 scenario.

Esimiestyön vaikutus työhön sitoutumiseen ja työhyvinvointiin

Tutkielman kohteena on tarkastella suhteita esimiestyön, työhön sitoutumisen ja työhyvinvoinnin välillä ICT – alalla Suomessa tapaustutkimuksena. Ilmiöiden välisiä suhteita testattiin sähköisellä henkilöstön sitoutumista mittaavalla kyselylomakkeella vuosina 2011 ja 2012. Yhteensä näinä vuosina kyselyyn vastasi 538 henkilöä, joista tutkittava otos on muodostunut. Lineaarisella regressioanalyysillä osoitettiin merkittäviä tilastollisia korrelaatioita esimiestyön ja työhön sitoutumisen sekä työhön sitoutumisen ja työhyvinvoinnin välillä.

Velociped-ruter i Finland

kuv., 9 x 14 cm

Finland kallar

22 x 31 cm

Semesterlandet Finland

11 x 14 cm

Res i Svensk-Finland

10 x 24 cm