Journal of Information Processing and Management
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Volume 44, Issue 2
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Commentary article
  • Subject-based and region-based academic consortia, and library management
    -TAC (Tama Academic Consortium) and MLAJ (Music Library Association of Japan)-
    Hitoshi MATSUSHITA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 89
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: May 01, 2001
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.44.89
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    The Library which the author is belonging to has long operated two types library consortia as the member; one is library consortium specialized in music (it has long history of more than 30 years and covered 37 libraries nationwide) and another is library consortium being composed of five colleges and universities, each of which is specialized in its own subject such as economics, liberal arts, communications, contemporary laws, music, arts, and is located in the same region westward of Tokyo (it has a history of 6 years). The author first describes the idea of the foundation, the objective, the activities, the evaluation and the future challenges. Then he compares the both consortiums in terms of resource sharing, problems found in the sharing, making of the union catalogs. Lastly he gives some consideration on basic items of consortium including how the member libraries are involved in and collaborate in consortium, funds for operating a consortium and leadership.
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  • VALE (Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey)
    -As a mediation for learning at global stage-
    Ryoko TOYAMA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 98
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: May 01, 2001
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.44.98
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    There have been many and various library consortiums established in the US. They are Ohio Link listed as an ideal consortium state wide, and consortiums in Georgia and Pennsylvania, to name a few. VALE was founded in 1998 voluntarily by junior colleges, colleges and universities as a collaborative library group. As of March, 2001 it has covered more than 50 libraries to take part in, nearly all the college/university libraries in the State, and has been operated democratic way having financial aid by the State of New Jersey. The materials the member libraries of VALE are sharing with are electronic ones. The author describes organization of VALE, programs VALE set at the beginning, and what have been added to the original programs or have enhanced the programs. Then she describes merits and demerits found in the three-year operation of VALE since 1998, the future or possibilities of consortium, conditions to make successful the consortium, and the future of VALE.
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  • The electronic submission on the Chemical Substances Control Law in Japan
    -The electronic systems using XML and database system for the great volume of the document required for the notification of New Chemical Substances-
    Takaharu OSADA, Ryo TANAKA, Keishi NISHI, Taiji SUZUKI, Eiichi KAMATA, ...
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 104
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: May 01, 2001
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.44.104
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    Under the current Japanese regulation based on the Chemical Substances Control Law, when the notification of new industrial chemical substance has been submitted to the government, it needs a pile of documents as the summary and original testing data set concerned with chemicals' hazardous properties, such as toxicity. For the safety assessment of the new chemical, each applicant has been required to submit extensive copies of documents to the regulatory authority, as assessment materials. Preparation of the materials has resulted in the large burden of the applicant. The electronic application works of the assessment materials are carried out for decreasing the burden. In the electronic application, the only original notification form (the usual 1 page) is presented by paper, whereas other documents about the chemical to be assessed are made as the electronic form by the XML and TIFF. The submitted data by the XML type are accumulated in the relational database system, and the database system are conjugated for the simplification of disposal of business for notification and the efficient safety assessment of new chemicals. It may have a plan to start the electronic submission using this system in 2001.
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  • A prototype system for the application of XML to J-STAGE
    Yoshiko SHIROKIZAWA, Michio OBARA, Asako OMI, Takahiko SHIMIZU
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 113
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: May 01, 2001
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.44.113
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    JST (Japan Science and Technology Corporation) has been operating J-STAGE since 1999. J-STAGE supports electronic manuscript submission, electronic peer-reviewing, and dissemination of electronic journals. Although SGML is used as the internal data of J-STAGE now, XML is more suitable for data dissemination, data exchange, and integrated use of data compared to SGML. We developed the prototype tools to apply XML to J-STAGE. This paper describes the aim of the development of XML tools, the outline of the XML tools, and the future plan for J-STAGE.
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  • Digital libraries of universities and information policy in Korea
    Sukho Lee, Sunyeong Cho, written., Hisako UCHIDA, transl.
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 125
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: May 01, 2001
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.44.125
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    A digital library is a very critical issue in universities. Recently, most universities have been developing digital libraries with heavy investment of budget and labours. This article describes the current status of digital libraries of Korean universities. To this end, it introduces some digital library projects supported by the government and library consortiums for information sharing and joint acquisition of expensive digital databases. It also briefly examines information service organizations and digitalization policy which the government supports and plans for the preparation of the Digital Age.
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  • Flood damages on Nagoya Research Laboratory of Meito Sangyo Co., Ltd. by the Tokai-Storm (Sept. 12, 2000)
    -Damages on research related documents and the storage facilities, and what the future crisis management should be against flood damages-
    Hideo NAGAE, Fumio ISHIDA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 132
    Published: 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: May 01, 2001
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.44.132
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    The bank of the Shinkawa River, first-grade classified river collapsed by the Tokai-Storm before daybreak on September 12, 2000. The flood bore down on Nagoya Research Laboratory of Meito Sangyo Co., Ltd. soon. The flood reached about two meters as the maximum depth and inflicted the serious damages on various paper, FD, CD-ROM including precious experimental results in addition to buildings, production plants, various analysis devices and facilities for experimental animals. We introduce the damage and our experience regarding the restoration process. And we propose a method for crisis management on research laboratory.
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