To enable data to be smoothly shared between a plurality of business operators.SOLUTION: A generation device comprises an acquisition section and a generation section. The acquisition section acquires metadata which corresponds to actual data owned by respective business operators and is registered on a platform where the actual data is managed by the business operators who own the actual data. The generation section generates a metadata table which integrates the metadata registered by each of the plurality of business operators on the basis of the metadata acquired by the acquisition section.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
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