Legal and policy issues on access to government information in the era of open government: with consideration given to the roles of libraries, archives and other related institutions

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25730191
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Tenri University
• Principal Investigator: Koga Takashi 天理大学, 人間学部, 准教授 (60390598)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 政府情報 / 情報公開 / アーカイブズ / 公文書 / 文書館 / オープンデータ / ガバナンス / デジタル・アーカイブ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research clarified policy issues and actual solutions for preserving and providing access to government open data, with emphasis on the policy and projects of U.S. Federal Government. The points of this research results are as follows: (1) Upon the diversity of current government information media, such as publications, records, websites, data, and so on, we need to understand the whole picture of government information for preservation and long-time use. (2) One of the prerequisites of open data is machine-readability, so it is a major challenge to preserve the data with ensuring machine-readability. (3) Government open data produces new knowledge and data through process and use of the original government open data. It reflects governance where public bodies, private ones and citizens interact each other. Therefore, preservation and access to government open data and “new knowledge and data” can lead to retrospective investigation of governance.

Free Research Field

図書館情報学・人文社会情報学