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1. Ref. 3-1 Technical Committee Report of Activities of 2012 and Proposed Activities (Draft) of 2013 2013.6.13 Open Data Promotion Consortium Noboru Koshizuka, Chief Researcher, Technical Committee This document is a provisional translation by Open Data Promotion Consortium

2. 1. Report of Activities of 2012(1) Overview

3. 1. Report of Activities of 2012(2) Achievements • Achievements of the Technical Committee were as follows. • Preparation of technical documents that include “Call for Comments” • Technical Guides for Data Preparation for Open Data Realization(*1) • CSV Data Standards for Open Data Realization (*2) • Specifications for Infrastructure Development for Collaboration for Data Circulation(2012 version) (*3) • Of the above-mentioned three documents, the 1 and 2 were proposed in the E-Government Open Data Working Level Meeting. • The article of “Numerics (Table), Sentence, Points to Note for Data Preparation for Geospatial Information (the Guideline is attached)” that was posted for call for public comments until June 7 was based on the documents the Technical Committee presented. (*1) See the 3rd TC Ref. 3-4http://www.opendata.gr.jp/committee/technical/documents.php (*2) See the 3rd TC Ref. 3-6http://www.opendata.gr.jp/committee/technical/documents.php (*3) See the 4th TC Ref. 2-4http://www.opendata.gr.jp/committee/technical/documents.php (*4) http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/it2/info/h250524-g2.pdf Source：the 4th TC Ref. Docs.

4. Reference：Proposal to the E-Government Open Data Working Level Meeting (Technical Matters) • The Technical Committee proposes followings based on the consideration made so far.We hope you could use them as reference, taking account of trials made by other government organizations, for regularization of promotion of open data to be discussed in the E-Government Open Data Working Level Meeting. • For your consideration of data structure and format for transforming the existing data in tabular or document formats, geographical data and real-time data to be used for open data, we suggest to consult the draft Technical Guides and draft Specifications which have been considered by the Technical Committee. • For your consideration of the API where the government is to post the open data, and high specification data format, it is advised to refer to the “1st version (Draft) of Specifications for Infrastructure Development for Collaboration for Data Circulation (2012)” which was discussed and prepared by the Technical Committee. • For realization of open data of the government-owned information, it is indispensable to prepare the data disclosure policy and guidelines for ensuring the data reliability in addition to the regularization of formats. The environment consolidation including the preparation of manuals and tool templates as well as staff training is another requirement.Your parallel consideration for these matters is highly appreciated. Source： 3rd E-Government Open Data Working Level Meeting, “Approach & Proposal of Open Data Promotion Consortium, Mar. 21, 2013

5. 1. Report of Activities of 2012 (3) Achievements • The Technical Committee achieved the followings in the year 2012. • Survey of Existing Open-Data Technology and Organization • TC surveyed existing data formats and APIs and cases in the world, and prepared the usage guidelines and considered issues. • Although there exist element technologies for open data, concrete guidelines and best practices are yet to be available. • The regularization in the upper hierarchy including use of vocabularies, codes, IDs and identifiers etc. is essential. • Preparation of Technical Documents • TC prepared following documents, based on the above analysis, as the guidelines for open data as well as the draft regularization in the upper hierarchy. • Technical Guides for Data Preparation for Open Data Realization • The guides which prescribe technical requirements for transforming data possessed by the government, local authorities, businesses etc. into open data as well as procedures for its realization to ensure the usage of wide range of applications and services. • CSV Data Standards for Open Data Realization • TC noted the CSV format as an appropriate data format to satisfy the above-mentioned Technical Guides’ requirements, and set up the rules and formats for data description. • Specifications for Infrastructure Development for Collaboration for Data Circulation (2012) • TC provided SPARQL-standards-based and REST-based APIs, as well as vocabularies to be used for the system development for open data. • TC provided them for the verification of the Infrastructure Development for Collaboration for Data Circulation in 2012, and implemented case studies.

6. 2. Technical Committee’s Proposed Activities (Draft) in 2013 (1) Action Plan(Draft) a.Close examination of achievements of 2012, and implementation of dissemination activities. b. Consideration of measures of internationalization and standardization of open data, and practice of some of them. c.Closer collaboration with the Committees of Data Governance and Utilization and Promotion Committee and Promotion, and consideration of needs of data users and data owners. (2) Major Activities (Draft)