When I come up with an idea for a new web application or library, I sometimes make a prototype to explain it to others.
Keeping the default style of the browser without writing CSS, all the images are gray squares, and the text is easy if it is "○○○" or "dummy dummy dummy", but it is not interesting after all.
In such a case, if you use Bootstrap etc. for the design and select the image from free materials, you can make a good prototype without spending too much time.
However, when I wanted 100 short sentences, 100 names, 100 addresses, etc., I had to do everything by hand, such as automatically generating dummy data or finding the data from somewhere. Even if data is found, it is often difficult to use as it is and processing is required.
As this continued, I came to think that it would be nice if there were free data materials.
I searched for it again just in case, but I couldn't find any free material with data that seemed to be easy to use, so I decided to try it anyway.
I thought it would be better if the data format was unified, so I chose JSON that is easy to read in any language. I wanted to use some service as the place to register, but I couldn't find a reasonable place, so I set up the site.
FreeJSON.net-Free and free JSON data http://freejson.net
As a starting point, I collected the first 400 characters of each work of Aozora Bunko, thinking that it might be a little interesting as a person's name and data of active students of Takarazuka (so-called Takarazuka is called a student) and text data of the posting site. I tried to register data etc.
It is surprisingly interesting to actually create the data. When I make a prototype, it's different from the purpose, so I feel like making it, but when the purpose is to make data, my mood changes.
Also, the data of Takarazuka students and the data of Aozora Bunko are interesting just by looking at them. I'm going to collect data steadily for a while. After updating the data, I will tweet with the hashtag #FreeJSON.
Since the data that can be created by one person is known, it may be good to create a library-like mechanism that collects such data.
2016-08-06 Added a list of matcha inscriptions 2016-08-06 Added drink menu that seems to be in the cafe 2016-08-02 Added deep-breathing words, Hirofumi Goto (from the deep-breathing words project http://shin-kokyu.jp) 2016-08-01 Added a list of common kanji (provided by @wakufactory) 2016-08-01 Added information on Japanese museums (with latitude and longitude information)
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