This document summarizes the activities of the Linked Open Data Initiative, Inc. from 2012-2013. It establishes the goals of promoting and diffusing Linked Open Data (LOD) in Japan through collaborating with governments, companies, and citizens. Key activities included consulting with Sabae City on their open data program, translating CKAN data portal software into Japanese, and launching an open data portal for Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The organization also committed to supporting various open data initiatives by the Japanese government and planned to increase real-world applications of LOD technology through training and community building.

1. Specified Non-profit Corporation
Linked Open Data Initiative, Inc.
Activities in 2012-2013

2. 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
舞台
観光地
観光地
作品
作品
出身

3. 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

4. History
“Let’s make an NPO!”
@Pub in Yokohama, August 2010
Registration of NPO
＠Tokyo, August 2012

5. Board
Chair 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

6. 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

7. What are we doing,
indeed?

8. Collaboration with Sabae-City
• Consulting for Open Data
• iphone App “Sabae Burari”（with ATR Creative）

9. 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

10. 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

11. DBpedia Japanese
• DBpedia generated from Wikipedia
Japanese
http://ja.dbpedia.org

12. 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)

13. 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

14. 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