PROGRAM: 4-1

Title:

OPEN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH DATA SHARING IN JAPAN AND INTERNATIONAL SCENES

Abstract:

Since the G8 Science Ministers' Meeting in UK 2013, Open Science policy and practice have been intensively discussed in related countries. Research Data Sharing is an essential element in implementation of Open Science. There have been various approaches for this activity by several bodies, like academic committees ICSU-World Data System (WDS) and Committee of Science and Technology Data (CODATA), an international forum RDA (Research Data Alliance) in connection to G8 Group of Senior Officials (GSO)'s data infrastructure working group, and recently Global Science Forum of OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development), etc. The first official stakeholder in Japan who responded to the G8-2013 decision was Cabinet Office, which has played a leading role in Japan to publish the first national guiding principle of Open Science for Japan (March 2015). In 2016 G7 Science and Technology Ministers' Meeting was held in Japan, including the Open Science session as one of its six main themes.

Recognizing that our scientific knowledge in past has been accumulated on "print technology" basis (books, articles) for more than 300 years, advantage of digital technology and electronic information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure is today being emphasized in terms of high-speed and huge-volume data processing although it has only a 70-year history.

Taking Open Science as an increasingly important international priority, sharing scientific knowledge and scientific research data must be an infrastructure for research and findings, and also results and output from the scientific community. Science, as the broadest definition of this term, is now required to be a common social infrastructure to make everyday livings, and also be essential for future improvement of the Society, citizen activities, and the economy.