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1. Shinji Enoki
shinji.enoki@gmail.com
in State of the Map 2019
2019-09-23
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OpenDatathon activities in Japan

2. Shinji Enoki (榎真治)
● From Japan
● Member of Kyoto OpenData Community
● Member of ShokokuRoman OpenData Community
● Member of Wikimedians in Kansai
● Other community:
● I mainly active in the LibreOffice community
● Member of LibreOffice Japanese Team
● Member of The Document Foundation
● Vice-chairperson of Japan UNIX Society
● Staff of KANSAI OPEN SOURCE

3. Talk summary
1.What is OpenDatathon?
2.Overview of OpenDatahon events in Japan
3.Events detail
4.Purpose and effect
5.What potential does it have?

4. Do you know the word “OpenDatathon”?
● Please raise your hand if you don't know...

5. What is OpenDatathon?
● OpenData-thon is words likes hacka-thon
● We call Open Datason to have multiple open data editing
events together
● Usually we combine OpenStreetMap mapping party and
Wikipedia editing event (Wikipedia Town)

6. History of OpenDatathon
● First held in Futakotamagawa on June 22, 2013
● Kyoto OpenData Community held it for the first time at
International Open Data Day 2014
● To be exact, we first had an OpenDatathon on 16 Feb
to practice IODD. But it had about 40 participants
● After that, we held regular events once every two
months. But currently irregular.

8. 2. Overview of OpenDatahon events in Japan

9. Mapping party in Japan
https://openstreetmap.jp/eventlist

10. Mapping party in Japan (2)
● There are two types of monthly regular event series in
Kansai
● ShokokuRoman OpenData Community :
● There is a month for just the mapping party and a month
for Open Datason
● https://countries-romantic.connpass.com/
● Kyoto walking around the city: Yamashita-san organize
● https://openstreetmap-kyoto.connpass.com/
● There are other mapping parties in various regions
● Crisis mapping, ancient tomb mapping, OSM birthday event

11. Number of times OSM events in Japan
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
2
10
11
20
34
31
29
Including OpenDatathon. This does not track all events in
Japan. This is part of them

12. Wikipedia Town activities in Japan
● In Japan, Wikipedia Town is an event that writes local
information or other topic on Wikipedia and uploads
photos to Wikimedia Commons
● First held in Futakotamagawa on June 22, 2013
https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PJ:WTOWN/A

13. Number of times Wikipedia Town(Including OpenDatathon)
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
3
9
34 35
64
72
52

14. More information about WikipediaTown
● ESEAP Conference 2018, Ota-san talk slide
● https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:WikipediaTownIntroduction_April2018.pdf

15. OpenDatathon activities in Japan
● Kyoto OpenData Community was held about once every
two months from 2013. They have recently held
irregularly
● ShokokuRoman OpenData Community is held about
once every two months
● Of course, other communities hold OpenDatathon
● Community members sometimes support other local
events
Event list page

16. Number of times OpenDatathon in Japan
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
1
9
7 7
14
11
8

17. 3. Events detail

18. Our basic framework
● Kyoto OpenData Community and ShokokuRoman OpenData
Community use the same framework
● The members are quite overlapping
● Introduction:
● City History Lecture: Options
● Basic guidance : Wikipedia and OSM: 30-50min
● City walk : 1-2 hours
● Lectures : Wikipedia and OSM groups respectively : 20min?
● Edit: Wikipedia and OSM groups respectively : 1-2 hours
● Presentation of results, Group photo

19. Target and focus
● Main target: Newcomer, Contributors after a long time
● Of course, contributors are also welcome
● Focus: Understand simple ways to contribute and use
OSM or Wikimedia

20. City walk
● We sometimes have town guide: option
● Survey for OSM Group
● We also go to the location of the subject for writing
articles on Wikipedia
● Take a photo：Wkimedia Commonsへ
● Some cases only upload to Commons without editing
Wikipedia

27. Wifi and Projector
● Internet access is important
● We often rent portable Wifi
● Borrowing a projector may increase the cost of the
venue
● We bought a used projector

28. Event series themes and stories
● Engage participants' interests
● ShokokuRoman OpenData Community
● Series about places related to the end of the Edo
period
● Previously it was going along “Saigoku” old highway
● Mapping party series: Mapping 13 world heritage in
Kyoto in order

29. 4. Purpose and effect

30. My purpose
● Increase opportunities to learn open data
● It is important to increase the number of people who
understand open data even if they are not
contributors
● Interact people related to open data
● Increase the number of contributors

31. Cross community
● I am aiming for cross community by bringing two events
together
● I think it is a good idea for various open data
communities to interact and sometimes change their
contributions.
● It's common in the open source community

32. Challenges point (1) : Time schedule
● OSM and Wikipedia editing require different time
schedules
● Mapping is important for OSM, but indoor editing time
is important for Wikipeida
● We are paying attention to securing editing time for
Wikipedia
● Kyoto OpenData Community, the town walking team
was divided between OSM and Wikipedia

33. Challenges point (2) : Culture
● Communication of community members from different
cultures
● I think it is important to create a culture that respects
each other
● Deal with aggressive participants
● Organized members have different cultures

34. Challenges point (3) : Follow up for biginar
● It is an event for beginners
● Follow up with another event
● In Kyoto, OSM mapping evensts:
● in Osaka, OSM hackathon is held on the third
Wednesday of every month
● I have been holding LibreOffice events every month
for 5 years and my friend (Sakanoshita-san) is
holding OSM events at the same place together for 3
years.

35. LOSM and LibreOffice event: every month

36. Challenges point (4) : Growing the community
● The rate of increase of contributors is slow
● I think a strategic approach is needed
● The speed of growth is increasing slowly now

37. 5. What potential does it have?

38. Librarian and library potential
● Librarys collect books about the local infomation and
seeks ways to use them
● Some people think that libraries should play a role in
supporting the community
● Many librarians have the skills to write Wikipedia
● Wikipedia Town and Open Datason have already been
held / support in some libraries
● This activity has the potential to expand further

39. Librarian and library potential(2)
● Wikipedia Town Summit was effective in expanding to
the library
● 2014 Tokyo
● 2017 Kyoto
● Librarians and community members gathered from all
over Japan to exchange knowledge. There was also
some transportation support

40. Wikipedia Town Summit 2017 Kyoto
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikipediaTownSummit2017Kyoto_1.jpg

41. Civic Tech Community Potential
● There are many Code for x communities in Japan
● They have the potential motivation to register as open
data with local data
● Already several civic tech communities organized
mapping parties and Wikipedia towns
● We want to support that activity

42. People who want to record local information
● Information about shopping streets, tourist information,
more
● These people are often not interested in Civic Tech and
Open Data
● OSM, Wikipedia and other open data often fit their use
cases
● They could be contributors to the extent they need

43. Thanks to Sakanoshita-san for helping me
create this slide
● He is a founder of the ShokokuRoman OpenData
Community and a member of the Kyoto OpenData
Community

44. Conclusion
● In Japan, various groups are organized by Mapping Party
and WikipediaTown
● My purpose is to increase opportunities to learn open
data, interact people related to open data, and increase
the number of contributors
● Cross community is important
● We will support an ecosystem where people who want to
record and use information can contribute