Journal of Information Processing and Management
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Volume 57, Issue 9
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  • The past, present, future of PLOS ONE
    Sho SATO
    2014 Volume 57 Issue 9 Pages 607-617
    Published: December 01, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.57.607
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    Since launched in 2006, PLOS ONE has grown very rapidly. In 2013, more than 30,000 articles were published in PLOS ONE and it has become the largest peer reviewed journal in the world. This article overviews the "past", "present" and "future" of PLOS ONE based on the history of PLOS and data retrieved from bibliographic databases and PLOS ONE's website. PLOS ONE was launched to realize rapid and free scholarly communication, which is the goal of PLOS, and it seemed successful. However high-impact journals such as PLOS Biology have been in chronic deficit and PLOS has used the surplus by PLOS ONE to cover them. This situation suggests that the business model of OA publication has limitations. In addition, it seems that, PLOS ONE stops growing today.
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  • An overview of EPUB, digital publications and Web standards
    Hiroshi TAKASE
    2014 Volume 57 Issue 9 Pages 618-628
    Published: December 01, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.57.618
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    EPUB is an exchange and distribution format standard for digital publications. Most of today's major eBook stores make uses of EPUB in one way or another. The factors that underpinned the dissemination of EPUB include: 1) it is based on the Web standards, 2) it is open and royalty-free, and 3) it provides support for various reading environments. This article introduces EPUB features, its data structure and representational capability. Some issues to be addressed and the trend in recent years are also touched on here. EPUB will be likely to remain a key format in the future, since it meets various requirements of digital publishing.
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  • Scientific Data : An open access and open data publication to facilitate reproducible research
    Iain HRYNASZKIEWICZ, Yoko SHINTANI
    2014 Volume 57 Issue 9 Pages 629-640
    Published: December 01, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.57.629
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    As open access to journal articles has become more established in scholarly publishing, a number of Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) publishers are working to help provide open access to research data (open data). Researchers are generally supportive of data sharing and publication but they often lack incentives and mechanisms to share data effectively. For open data to help increase scientific reproducibility and reliability it must be more than just available - it should be understandable and reusable and, ideally, validated through peer review. Data journals and data articles have emerged as a new type of publication to help address these issues. Nature Publishing Group has developed a data journal in response to the needs of research funders and a survey of key stakeholders. The journal, Scientific Data, published its first articles in May 2014. The primary article type, the Data Descriptor, combines traditional scientific article content with structured machine-readable information, and has been devised to enable searching across different data types, linking of data to publications, and data-mining.
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  • How to make almost anything : The possibility of FabLabs around the world and Kamakura
    Youka WATANABE
    2014 Volume 57 Issue 9 Pages 641-650
    Published: December 01, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.57.641
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    FabLabs are a global network of local labs that enable invention by providing people with access to tools for digital fabrication. FabLabs share an evolving inventory of core capabilities to make (almost) anything, allowing people and projects to be shared. The FabLab grass roots movement has now expanded to more than 600 locations in 50 developed and developing countries. The FabLab movement arrived to Japan in 2011. FabLab Kamakura and FabLab Tsukuba were the first FabLabs in East Asia. Currently there are 11 other FabLabs in Japan (as of September 2014). In this paper we would like to propose the activities of FabLabs around the world and Kamakura, and their possibilities, such as the new way of learning, training, research, and innovation.
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  • A comparative study on metadata collections of NDL Search and Europeana
    Ryo SHIOZAKI, Yuko KIKUCHI, Daiki ANDO
    2014 Volume 57 Issue 9 Pages 651-663
    Published: December 01, 2014
    Released on J-STAGE: December 01, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.57.651
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    Some national libraries play a role not only as a web portal but also as a "platform", which delivers, via web APIs, various metadata aggregated from heterogeneous databases so that anyone can reuse. NDL Search is one of large-scale platforms for cultural and academic resources in Japan. This paper attempts a comparison of the metadata collections between NDL Search and Europeana. Results suggest features and challenges of NDL Search; although a huge amount of data is already available, standardization for metadata models, collection methods and development of a licensing framework are less advanced. In the near future, building sustainable relationships with content providers is one of key issues.
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