Journal of Information Processing and Management
Online ISSN : 1347-1597
Print ISSN : 0021-7298
ISSN-L : 0021-7298
Volume 45, Issue 5
Displaying 1-16 of 16 articles from this issue
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Commentary article
  • —The trend of opinions on intellectual property—
    Hirokazu AOYAMA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 5 Pages 308-320
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2002
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    The methods of creating abundant and highly valued “intellectual properties” and utilizing them strategically in order to enhance Japan’s international competitiveness and revitalize the Japanese economy and society as a whole are now being discussed actively in various circles, and reports and proposals are published thereon. Japan will from now on promote “the intellectual property strategy” as a priority policy, and the Government and private industries will cooperate closely in their effort to pursue the development of the country based on intellectual property. In the present issue and the next issue, the author will report twice on the trend of opinions with respect to intellectual property in various circles and “the Outline of the National Intellectual Property Strategy” published by the Council for Intellectual Property Strategy in July 2002. In this issue, the author reports discussions made among and the gist of proposals by (1) the Council for Science and Technology Policy, (2) the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, (3) the Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry, and (4) others.
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  • —For deeper understanding—
    Shigeo SUGIMOTO
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 5 Pages 321-335
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2002
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    This paper is the second half of the two consecutive articles on Dublin Core. The goal of this article is to describe fundamental issues of Dublin Core for deeper understanding. The issues include the roles of core metadata, the Warwick Framework, the concepts of qualifiers, the Dumb-down principle, element sets and application profiles. This article also explains Resource Description Framework (RDF), which is adopted as the infrastructure technology for metadata interoperability on the Web, and the organization structure of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). Some discussions for future development of Dublin Core are given to conclude this article.
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  • Alison BUCKHOLTZ, written., Kazuko TAKAGI, transl.
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 5 Pages 336-347
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2002
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    In academic publication market driven by commercial publishers and due to such a situation that academic libraries are suffering from hike in subscription fees and annual reduction in library budgets, we often hear about crisis in academic communication from universities/colleges, academic libraries and scholars. To solve it there are some initiatives emerging that urge to create low-cost high quality journals which are competitive with the current commercial journals, and promise to produce new types of publication models. SPARC is one of those initiatives. The author briefs how it was born, SPARC memberships and achievements, partnership, prestige of journals created under SPARC, SPARC’s impact on pricing of academic journals, SPARC’s advocacy in creating new academic journals, technical issues of the open access, and future priorities of SPARC.
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Introductory article
  • Kiyoshi WATANABE, Itaru KIMURA
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 5 Pages 348-352
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2002
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    With the vision of a reference library for the 21st century-oriented, we established a technical information center in Yokohama Building of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. completed in May 1994. However, the new century has come, IT has progressed far beyond expectations up to the present. Large number of information changed from printed materials to digital, documents and materials on bookshelves are now being in server computers. Epoch of host computer and terminal systems, only specialists could operate and search databases, but nowadays it have completely been shifted to server and client systems, anyone can search as a searcher. In other words, the era of ordinary end-users as searchers has come. The role of the technical information center is further strongly forced to change from information management of a library to offering valuable information services as a “real Technical Information Center”.
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  • Koji SIMO
    Article type: scientific monograph
    Subject area: Infomation Science
    2002 Volume 45 Issue 5 Pages 353-362
    Published: 2002
    Released on J-STAGE: August 01, 2002
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    GIS (Geographic Information System), a system using digital map data, has not been in wider use but among local governments or among some power users who are engaged in area marketing. On the other hand, over these five years it has been said that ones enable to use about 80% of the whole inhouse data more efficiently if they post that data over map data in GIS. Companies are still hesitating or unlikely using GIS due to high cost and much time to introduce it, and inconvenience in use. The author introduces Base Map Service using open architecture, which is promised to solve those problems in GIS.
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