A Study on Legal Issues of Public Data Management as Records: Focused on Analysis of the Act on Provision and Use of Public Data

The study aims to analyze the Public Data Act and provide alternative strategies for public data management. It conducts an extensive literature review based on a multidisciplinary approach and discusses the terms, public data and synonyms from the Public Data Act, and other related laws while also studies and traces the history of related regulations. The significance of the Public Data Act is analyzed and the major contents of the Act are examined, particularly, the contents that describe relevant committees. As a result, the article discusses five issues: relation between regulations, ambiguity of decision-making standards, ‘professionality of a public data supply officer, low quality of public data, and lack of records and archives management.