Abstract
Motivated by the recent trend toward the public information disclosure, an increasing number of local governments make their assembly minutes openly accessible on the WEB. At present, there are about 1,800 local governments in Japan and half of them provide the minutes browsing services on the WEB. "Sophia" is one of the WEB-based minutes browsing
systems that are commercially available in Japan. "Sophia" is already deployed in about 100 local governments. "Sophia" is basically a text information database system equipped with functions that are useful for the viewers. In this paper, we introduce the WEB-minutes browsing system named "Sophia" which contributes to the increase of viewers compared with the case where the minutes are just made open by
printed matter or simple text on the WEB.
