Aila news
On this page you will find news about the Aila Data Service. Other news related to the Finnish Social Science Data Archive are available on the FSD homepage.
Maintenance window on Thursdays 7–10 am
Latest news
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Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Thursday 22 December and will re-open on Monday 8 January 2024. Aila Data Service will run unattended during this period.
(21.12.2023) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Thursday 23 December and will re-open on Monday 9 January 2023. Aila Data Service will run unattended during this period.
(15.12.2022) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Thursday 23 December and will re-open on Friday 7 January 2022. Aila Data Service will run unattended during this period.
(16.12.2021) -
Possible interruptions in FSD's online services
FSD's online services may be intermittently unavailable or slow on Monday December 13 and Monday December 20.
(2.12.2021) -
FSD user services phone number changed
The new user services phone number is +358 29 452 0411.
(14.1.2021) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Wednesday 23 December and will re-open on Thursday 7 January 2021. Aila Data Service will run unattended during this period.
(17.12.2020) -
Datasets archived at FSD according to access condition A will become freely available under the CC BY 4.0 license on December 10, 2020
Under the license, a dataset is openly available for all users without registration.
(3.12.2020) -
Aila Data Service will be moved to a new domain on November 26, 2020
Aila's services will be moved from the current uta.fi domain to the tuni.fi domain on Thursday, November 26, 2020.
(19.11.2020) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Friday 20 December 2019 and will re-open on Tuesday 7 January 2020. Aila Data Service will run unattended during this period.
(19.12.2019) -
Summer 2019 opening hours
The Data Archive's information service is open the whole summer. However, due to staff holidays delays in answering information service requests are possible from late June to the end of July.
(20.6.2019) -
Aila unavailable from 8:00 Thursday 25 April
The Aila Data Service will be unavailable from 8:00 a.m. Thursday 25th April due to move to a new server.
(18.4.2019) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Friday 21 December 2018 and will re-open on Monday 7 January 2019. Aila Data Service will run unattended during this period.
(13.12.2018) -
Summer 2018 opening hours
The Data Archive's information service is open the whole summer. However, due to staff holidays delays in answering information service requests are possible from late June to the end of July.
(14.6.2018) -
Aila Data Service's maintenance window moving to Thursday morning
The maintenance window will move from Tuesday to Thursday starting on week 16.
(10.4.2018) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Friday 22 December 2017 and will re-open on Monday 8 January 2018. Aila Data Service will run unattended during this period.
(12.12.2017) -
Summer 2017 opening hours
The Data Archive's information service is open the whole summer. However, due to staff holidays delays in answering information service requests are possible from late June to the end of July.
(27.6.2017) -
Aila unavailable from 7:00 Tue 14 March
The Aila Data Service will be unavailable from 7:00 a.m. Tuesday 14th March due to move to a new server.
(28.2.2017) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Wednesday 21 December 2016 and will re-open on Monday 9 January 2017. Aila Data Service does not take holidays and will run unattended during this period.
(20.12.2016) -
Two changes in Aila: Amendment of Terms and Conditions for Aila use, e-mail address confirmation
The FSD has updated its terms and conditions for the use of the Aila Data Service. Even previously registered users must accept the new terms and conditions before they can download more data from Aila.
(23.8.2016) -
Seminar on Data Reuse and Aila Data Service in Tampere on 15 September
Registration is now open for the seminar.
(16.8.2016) -
Summer 2016 opening hours
The Data Archive's information service is open the whole summer. However, due to staff holidays delays in answering information service requests are possible from June to July.
(28.6.2016) -
Seminar on Data Reuse and Aila Data Service in Tampere on 15 September
Finnish Social Science Data Archive organises a Seminar on Data Reuse and Aila Data Service on 15 September 2015. Registration will begin in early August.
(10.5.2016) -
Changes in Aila user profiles
The Haka Identity Federation changes the way it displays its users’ name information on 4 January 2016. The change will also affect Aila.
(22.12.2015) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Monday 21 December 2015 and will re-open on Thursday 7 January 2015.
(22.12.2015) -
The first Aila Seminar was a success
The Data Archive organised its first-ever seminar on Aila Data Service and data reuse in Tampere on 17 September.
(29.9.2015) -
Aila Data Service under study
Anna Tuominen wrote her Master's thesis on the Data Archive's Aila Data Service, which was launched in May 2014.
(29.9.2015) -
Seminar on Data Reuse and Aila Data Service in Tampere on 17 September
Finnish Social Science Data Archive organises the first Seminar on Data Reuse and Aila Data Service on 17 September 2015.
(24.6.2015) -
Summer 2015 opening hours
The Data Archive's information service is open the whole summer. However, due to staff holidays delays in answering information service requests are possible from June to July.
(24.6.2015) -
Aila experiences reported in FSD Bulletin
Issue 39 (1/2014) contains an introduction to the Aila service and an article on the challenges of producing the English version of the user interface. Forthcoming issue 40 reports on the aims of the new service and its building process, and on some first user experiences.
(27.1.2015) -
Aila boosts data use and user numbers
Aila Data Service, launched in May 2014, has significantly increased the use of archived data and user numbers.
(27.1.2015) -
Christmas and New Year closing times
The FSD User Services are closed from Monday 22 December 2014 and will re-open on Wednesday 7 January 2015.
(16.12.2014) -
Sorting data by availability status
It is now possible to sort the data catalogue by the availability of data.
(11.11.2014) -
Nearly 300 datasets downloaded from Aila Data Service
The FSD's new data service portal was launched in May. Many users have embraced the new service during the summer and nearly 300 datasets have been downloaded for different purposes, mainly research.
(2.9.2014) -
Aila Data Service launched
The new online data service Aila allows data download for registered users, according to conditions set for each dataset.
(12.5.2014)