  In the cases when public health authorities confirm a patient with highly
contagious disease, they release the summaries about patient locations and
travel information. However, due to privacy concerns, these releases do not
include the detailed data and typically comprise the information only about
commercial facilities and public transportation used by the patients. We
addressed this problem and proposed to release the patient location data as
open data represented in a structured form of the information described in
press releases. Therefore, residents would be able to use these data for
automated estimation of the potential risks of contacts combined with the
location information stored in their mobile phones. This paper proposes the
design of the open data based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), and
performs a preliminary evaluation of the first draft of the specification
followed by a discussion on possible future directions.
