BODIK R&D takes the approach of not completing its vision for public data integration infrastructure all at once, but of maturing it through staged research and development and pilot operations. Rather than simply listing a vision, the fundamental idea is to advance by connecting elements as they mature.
The first half of FY2026 is the stage of moving each project constituting BODIK R&D from research concepts to concrete development targets. Development begins on major components — cms_to_ckan, ODMM-ai, the Extended Metadata Server, VAPI, RAPI, and the integrated data platform — while clarifying roles, interfaces, data flows, and pilot targets for each.
In the middle of the fiscal year, the most advanced of the components that have entered development are moved to pilot operations. Determining not only technical viability but whether each can withstand actual operational use becomes critical. The focus is on validating whether metadata enrichment genuinely improves discoverability, and whether virtual model definitions function without excess or deficiency when applied to real-world data.
In the second half, the stage shifts to interconnecting the individually validated components and deepening the coherence of the infrastructure as a whole. The key is whether discovered data can be appropriately collected, formatted, passed to metadata enrichment, connected to the virtual model or API layer, and ultimately made available on the platform. The emergence of this end-to-end flow is the first step toward infrastructure maturity.
Toward the latter part of the fiscal year and into year-end, full-scale operation of configurations including VAPI and RAPI comes into view. Beyond technical completeness, governance also needs to be established: operational rules, assignment of responsibilities, authentication management, update flows, and the form in which services are delivered to users. Full-scale operation means not simply a state in which systems are running, but a state in which they continue to be used, improved, and extended. This phase is simultaneously the endpoint of FY2026 and the starting point for development in subsequent fiscal years.
The goal is to clarify which components prove viable, which integrations are effective, and where additional research is needed — and to connect these findings to advancement in subsequent fiscal years. This roadmap is not a completion schedule but a research and development plan for incrementally building infrastructure that is ready to connect.