Attractive Open Data for Software Engineers

Abstract

Since 2013, open government data is one of hot topic in Japan to realize more open about conduct of government, citizen participation, and positive economic growth. It's also make opportunities for cross-industrial association and students active learning. To make use of open government data actively and efficiently, the data should be machine-readable and software engineers are necessary. This paper commentates a situation and issues of the domestic open government data on the basis of a software engineer.