Specified Non-profit Corporation

Linked Open Data Initiative, Inc.

Activities in 2012-2013

Linked Open Data ？

• Shifting Web of Documents to Web of Data• Opening and sharing our data• Linking related data• Publish data as machine-readable format

Prospectus

• LOD is becoming an infrastructure of our society– Similar to the impact to our society by Web – LOD help maturity and diversity of our society

• We wish to diffuse LOD more in Japan !– For Governments (Central and Local)– For Companies– For Citizens

• How?– By Researchers, Engineers, Citizens together

History

“Let’s make an NPO!”@Pub in Yokohama, August 2010

Registration of NPO＠ Tokyo, August 2012

BoardChair Hideaki Takeda

Vice Chair Ikki Ohmukai

Vice Chair Iwao Kobayashi

Board Makoto Okamoto

Board Fumihiro Kato

Board Tetsuro Kamura

Board Toru Takahashi

Board Yoshiaki Fukami

Board Fuyuko Matsumura

Audit Seiji Koide

Principal Business (planned)• Research on Linked Open Data and Open Data

– Investigation and reporting on Linked Open Data and Open Data both in Japan and in the world concerning on the activities by governments and enterprises and related technologies.

• Holding of seminars and symposiums– Holding of seminars and symposiums regarding on Linked Open Data and Open

Data to make wider recognition and understanding for them in Japan

• Assisting Linked Open Data and Open Data activities– Assisting the central and local governments and enterprises which build Linked

Open Data and Open Data, e.g., design of schema, design of systems, building of data, publishing of data, using of data, etc.

• Evaluation of Open Data activities– Research and evaluation of Open Data activities in the central and local

governments and enterprises

• Holding of Contests on Linked Open Data and Open Data– Holding of contests on Linked Open Data and Open Data to share knowledge

and experience among people in Japan

What are we doing, indeed?

Collaboration with Sabae-City

• Consulting for Open Data• iphone App “Sabae Burari” （ with ATR Creative ）

CKAN Japanese

• Facebook CKAN Japan Group– Starting from Open Data

Ideathon by GLOCOM (2012-06-09)

– https://www.facebook.com/groups/327233017355370/

– Translation with Transifex

– Providing Internationalization for 1.8

– Bug fix on Internationaliztion

• Hub site for CKAN for Japanese Datasets– http://data.linkedopendata.jp

Open DATA METI

• Data Catalog Site for Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan– Content:• Statistical Data (CC-

BY)• White papers (CC-BY-

ND)– Based on CKAN– http://datameti.go.jp

DBpedia Japanese• DBpedia generated from Wikipedia

Japanese

http://ja.dbpedia.org

Commitment to Open Data Activities by Japanese Government

• Board members commit various activities by Japanese Government

– Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry: IT Fusion Forum/Public Data WG

– Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications: Open Data Promotion Forum

– Cabinet Secretariat: Working Level Meeting on e-Government and Open Data

(English names for the above organization are not formal)

Feb. 4, 2013 on Sale

Linked Data: Web をグローバルなデータ空間にする仕組み– Authors: T. Heath and

C. Bizer– Translator: H. Takeda,

I. Ohmukai, T. Kamura, A. Kameda, S. Koide, F. Matsumura and Y. Minami

– Publisher: Kindai-Kagaku-Sha

Translation of Book

Next Plan

• Practice, Practice!– Increase cases by LOD

• More promotion on LOD technologies– Increase engineers and practitoners

• Become the Hub for LOD Community in Japan– Bridging people across regions and deciplines