• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.27-42
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• 2022

Open Data is an essential resource for the data industry. 'Act On Promotion Of The Provision And Use Of Public Data', enacted on July 30, 2013, mandates public institutions to manage the quality of Open Data and provide it to the public. Via such a legislation, the legal basis for the public to Open Data is prepared. Furthermore, public institutions are prohibited from developing and providing open data services that are duplicated or similar to those of the private sector, and private start-ups using open data are supported. However, as the demand for Open Data gradually increases, the cases of refusal to provide or interruption of Open Data held by public institutions are also increasing. Accordingly, the 'Open Data Mediation Committee' is established and operated so that the right to use data can be rescued through a simple dispute mediation procedure rather than complicated administrative litigation. The main issues dealt with in dispute settlement so far are usually the rights of third parties, such as open data including personal information, private information such as trade secrets, and copyrights. Plus, non-open data cannot be provided without the consent of the information subject. Rather than processing non-open data into open data through de-identification processing, positive results can be expected if consent is provided through active rights processing of the personal information subject. Not only can the Public Mydata Service be used by the information subject, but Open Data applicants will also be able to secure higher quality Open Data, which will have a positive impact on fostering the private data industry. This study derives a plan to establish a rights processing platform to enhance the usability of Open Data, including private information such as personal information, trade secrets, and copyright, which have become an issue when providing Open Data since 2014. With that, the proposals in this study are expected to serve as a stepping stone to revitalize private start-ups through the use of wide Open Data and improve public convenience through Public MyData services of information subjects.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.200-221
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• 2018

Open Science is an umbrella term that involves various movements aiming to remove the barriers to sharing any kind of output, resources, methods or tools at any stage of the research process. While the study of open science is relatively advanced in Western countries, we know of no scholarship that attempts to understand open science in Hong Kong. This paper provides a broad-based background on the major research data management organisations, policies and institutions with the intention of laying a foundation for more rigorous future research that quantifies the benefits of open access and open data policies. We explore the status and prospects for open science (open access and open data) in the context of Hong Kong and how open science can contribute to innovation in Hong Kong. Surveying Hong Kong's policies and players, we identify both lost research potential and provide positive examples of Hong Kong's contribution to scientific research. Finally, we offer suggestions regarding what changes can be made to address the gaps we identify.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.87-96
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• 2021

Data-driven markets depend on access to data as a resource for products and services. Since the quality of information that can be drawn from data increases with the available amount and quality of the data, businesses involved in the data economy have a great interest in accessing data from other market players and sharing data with other stakeholders. Despite the growing need for access to data and evidence of the economic and social benefits, data access and sharing remains below its potential. Individuals, businesses, and governments often face barriers to data access, which may be compounded by the reluctance to share, including within and across sectors. To address these challenges, this paper focuses on finding possible solutions for a better data-sharing economy. This paper 1) Discusses opportunities and challenges of open data and the data-sharing economy, limitations of private sector data, and issues with open government data. 2) Introduces open government data initiatives and open governance networks initiatives. 3) Suggests possible solutions, including the governance and management, the legal and policy frameworks, and the technical standards for open data with proposing an open data governance model for the data-sharing economy.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.23-38
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• 2019

The Korean government has been trying to create new economic value-added and jobs by the openness and utilization of open government data. However, most of open government data has poor utilization rate. Although open government data standardization is a major cause of those inactivation, it is not sufficient to conduct empirical research on open government data itself. Based on this trend, this paper aims to find the priority area for opening data and suggests a realistic directions of standardization of open government data. Text mining and social network analysis approaches are used to analyze open government data and standardization. This research suggests the guides to open government data managers in practical view from selection of data to standardization direction. In addition, this research has academic implications to the knowledge management systems in terms of suggesting standardization direction by using various techniques.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.128-139
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• 2018

As The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Intelligent Information Age came into full-scale, the policy of open government data has become a hot topic for each country. The United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries are shifting policy direction to "creating value" of open government data. Also, in the age of the digital economy where the data market is soaring, open government data is gradually being recognized as a new raw material for new business and start-ups. In addition, Korea ranked first in the OECD open government data evaluation twice in a row, and was highly evaluated in the international evaluation. However, domestic firms are still lacking in qualitative openness of government data, data is dispersed among institutions, lack of public-private data linkage, and development of app-oriented development. This study attempts to analyze major national policies for the creation of a data ecosystem that considers data lifecycle, from production to storage, distribution and utilization of data. First, the target countries were the leading public data countries among the OGP member countries, the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada. The results of this study are as follows. As a result of analyzing the results and comparing Korea's policies, it was concluded that most of Korea is superior in open government data policy. However, improvement of data quality, development of open data portal as an open platform, support for finding various users including apps and web development companies, and cultivation of open government data utilizing personnel are analyzed as policy issues. In addition, the direction of policy for the balanced ecosystem of Korea is presented together.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.135-146
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• 2015

Public data open is one of the important tasks of Korea Government 3.0. By making open data available to the private sector, the goal is to create jobs, increase innovation and improve quality of life. Public data open is a policy that emphasized its importance worldwide. Open data should have adequate quality in order to achieve the object of the public. However, there are open data's quality problems due to the lack of data quality management and standardization. The purpose of this study is to derive data characteristics of public open data from existing researches. In addition, the model was modified and verified through a survey targeting the experts on public open data. The study indicates that public open data's quality characteristics as publicity, usability, reliability, suitability. This study is significant in that it suggests quality characteristics to improve the data quality and promote utilization of the open data.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.769-777
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• 2014

Recently many countries have established open government data platforms to disclose government or government controlled entities-owned data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone. Open government data can help you to make better decisions in your own life, or enable you to be more active in society. Open data is also making government more effective and transparent, which ultimately also reduces costs. This paper explains the open data concepts and circumstances in Korea, and also suggests detailed invigorating strategies such as data quality policy, data unification and standardization policy, open data service platform, and integrated support plan of big data and open government data.

• THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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• v.69
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• pp.633-654
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• 2016

Recently open data has been spread rapidly in the world include Korea. Accordingly in international trade field open data and using it became a key point to get competitiveness. In this study, the author make an attempt to suggest the way for quality improvement of international trade information by looking for some problems with crating and using the information. Thus, the problems of using information are can be point out as follows. Firstly the range of open data is narrow. Secondly the management of the open data is not conducted properly. Thirdly the suppliers of the open data didn't prepare some investigation system for their data's usability for user. Expansion of the organizations who open data is one way to solve quantitative problem. There are four suggestions to solve qualitative problems. Firstly the guidelines should be established and operated in each organizations respectively. Secondly the criterion of expenses for open data should be arranged among the concerned parties. Thirdly the ability of the manpower and organization who charged in the quality improvement of information should be reinforced both quantitatively and qualitatively. Lastly the system for data usability for user should be equipped in early stages. Finally the author emphasize the establishment of total management system for using open data in international trade is not needed only the efforts of the specific parties but also all parties led by Ministry of Industry, Trade and Energy in order to carry out above suggestions successfully.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.429-450
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to examine recent trends and intellectual structures in research related to open data. To achieve this, the study conducted a search for the keyword "open data" in Scopus and collected a total of 6,543 papers from 1999 to 2023. After data preprocessing, the study focused on the author keywords of 5,589 papers to perform network analysis and derive centrality in the field of open data research and linked open data research. As a result, the study found that "big data" exhibited the highest centrality in research related to open data. The research in this area mainly focuses on the utilization of open data as a concept of public data, studies on the application of open data in analysis related to big data as an associated concept, and research on topics related to the use of open data, such as the reproduction, utilization, and access of open data. In linked open data research, both triadic centrality and closeness centrality showed that "the semantic web" had the highest centrality. Moreover, it was observed that research emphasizing data linkage and relationship formation, rather than public data policies, was more prevalent in this field.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.19-29
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• 2017

Nowadays, the policy of open data disclosure has become one of the globally used tools for public innovation. For this reason, this study investigates whether the policy has eventually created the achievement of public innovation in Korea. To this end, this study evaluates qualities of the fourteen thousand open data in Korea that is disclosed to the public and compares it with indexes such as the usage of data, transparency index, and Government 3.0 Excellency Index, which are regarded as the outcome of the disclosure. Based on the result, this study aims to suggest future orientation for the policy.