A Proposal for Open Data of Sightseeing Event Information

Abstract

Development events and application contests are held in various locations as a way to promote open data, and have demonstrated results to an extent. Promotions of open data by basic units of government require implementation of open data into daily municipal services upon considering the acceptability of local governments, and not merely launching the above measures intensively in the short term. Nevertheless, many local governments are promoting open data with limited human resources and budget amid vast operations. Following such circumstances, the research attempted to create open data and develop applications from sightseeing events hosted by local governments with the objective to establish open data promotion in conventional municipal operations. Using the sightseeing events hosted by local governments as case examples, the research attempted to create open data from organizing data from pamphlets distributed by local governments. The data was leveraged to develop an application for mobile devices that guide users through sightseeing events, and its demonstration experiment using this application was conducted at the “Dai 15 kai Arukou! Bunka no Michi (15th Annual Let's Walk the Cultural Path)” event held in Higashi-ku, Nagoya. The demonstration experiment clarified the application's effectiveness, and succeeded in demonstrating that the tested open data of sightseeing event information were useful. In addition, as a result of the research, the sightseeing event information for the “Dai 16 kai Arukou! Bunka no Michi (16th Annual Let's Walk the Cultural Path)” event is now scheduled to be made public as Nagoya's open data. Based on the above, the paper discusses on the promotion of open data for conventional municipal operations while considering the acceptability of local governments.