In recent years, Open Science has been required in all academic fields. Also, in the humanities and social sciences fields, openness will become increasingly important in the future. At past SPARC Japan seminars, we have been focusing on humanities and social sciences. This year, we will focus on initiatives that have already been implemented in open research activities.

The following lectures will be given at this seminar:

• Dr. Ogiso (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) will talk about the construction of basic data in the field of linguistics and the research activities using it.
• Dr. Kano (Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo) will lecture on “Minna de Honkoku” (みんなで翻刻), which is research infrastructure for Citizen Science aiming to create new research data in collaboration with researchers and citizens.
• Dr. Ono (Institute for Information Management and Communication, Kyoto University) will discuss URA (University Research Administrator) as an intermediary between researcher data building and Citizen Science.

Through these lectures, we will share information to try to develop broad and stable Open Science in the humanities and social sciences fields. People tend to think that Open Science is only relevant to researchers. However, at this seminar, many people, including librarians, university staff, and publishers, will think about practice of Open Science from their respective positions.