WarSampo brings out open data on the Finnish World War II
(WorldNews Finland)

An online service offers the public an opportunity to delve into Finland`s military history. The WarSampo.fi portal opened at the end of 2015 and attracted twenty thousand visitors over just a few days. `The amount of visitors evened out after this initial surge, but WarSampo is still used a lot,` says the project`s leader, Professor Eero Hyvönen from Aalto University`s Semantic Computing Research Group. An enormous amount of material has been gathered to be published openly to all members of the public under WarSampo. An extensive group of cooperation partners has participated in the provision of information and the creation of this service. The Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive, for...