Journal of Information Processing and Management
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Volume 58, Issue 6
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  • Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) : Data sharing for solving societal issues on earth environment
    Asanobu KITAMOTO, Akiyuki KAWASAKI, Hiroko KINUTANI, Katsunori TAMAGAW ...
    2015 Volume 58 Issue 6 Pages 413-421
    Published: September 01, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.58.413
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    DIAS (Data Integration and Analysis System) aims at delivering relevant information within Japan and to the world for solving societal issues on earth environment based on the integration of massive and diverse earth observation data with other types of data such as socio-economic data. DIAS is unique in the establishment of a community to support application development on data infrastructure, in addition to the construction of data infrastructure itself. We first introduce the concept of DIAS from the viewpoint of three systems, namely infrastructure system, application development, and R&D community. We then summarize DIAS's principle on data sharing in terms of data access, metadata, and data policy. As a case study on DIAS's contribution to solving international societal issues, we introduce flood management planning in Tunisia based on data analysis and integration on climate change projection data. The paper concludes with our thought on some of important directions in DIAS research and development toward the future.
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  • The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database : Toward open data in the Humanities
    Kiyonori NAGASAKI
    2015 Volume 58 Issue 6 Pages 422-437
    Published: September 01, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.58.422
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    The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database has been developed since the beginning of its Web service mainly to retrieve full texts of the Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō in 2008. Especially, it has focused on collaborative services with other Web services of digital humanities projects. This paper describes usage of functions of the database via survey of distinction between 涅槃 and 泥洹. The SAT project has been collaborating not only among communities of Buddhist researchers but also with communities of digital humanities. It has been preparing for the era of open data and open science while it is not yet enough.
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  • The past, present, and future of hentaigana : Standardization for information processing
    Tomokazu TAKADA, Tsutomu YADA, Tatsuya SAITO
    2015 Volume 58 Issue 6 Pages 438-446
    Published: September 01, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.58.438
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    Hentaigana are variants of hiragana; these variants are rarely used in the present day. However, hentaigana were used for personal names until 1947, creating a need for a standardized coded character set of hentaigana for administrative uses such as the basic resident register. There is also a demand for the ability to input and display hentaigana on computers for academic purposes such as in the historical study of the Japanese writing system and studies of the history of Japan. Using characters collected from letterpress printing and digital fonts, we defined a set of hentaigana to be used in the exchange of academic information. This set includes some variants that originate from the same Chinese character in order to accurately portray functional distinction in hentaigana use. We plan to submit a proposal to add this set along with the hentaigana used for administrative purposes to the ISO/IEC 10646 standard on October 2015.
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  • Visualization of keywords for exploratory search of research
    Sachio HIROKAWA, Eisuke ITO, Kensuke BABA
    2015 Volume 58 Issue 6 Pages 447-454
    Published: September 01, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.58.447
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    Separation of public people and scientists are recognized as important issues. The progress of research is so fast and diverse that even a specialist is not capable of investigating the interdisciplinary area and the unfamiliar field. This paper introduces a visualized search system of KAKENHI, the scientific research fund by Japanese government. We use KAKENHI reports as a basic information on science and technology of Japan.The system extracts the words from the titles and the abstracts of KAKENHI projects, as well as technical terms, research fields, researchers, organizations and research periods. The words are displayed as nodes of a graph with different colors according to their attributes. The co-occurrence relation of words are displayed as edges of the graph. The distinction of words' attribute makes it easy to guess "who, what, with whom and where" according to the intension of search. This paper explains how the system works and show some examples of exploratory search.
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  • Activities of the Japan Association of Communication for Science and Technology
    Saeko OKADA
    2015 Volume 58 Issue 6 Pages 455-461
    Published: September 01, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: September 01, 2015
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1241/johokanri.58.455
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    The importance of communicating achievements in science and technology, connecting research institutes and universities to society, increases year by year. Encouraging information exchange between all stakeholders is necessary to promote scientific endeavors, by receiving approval or understanding from the general public, incorporating the needs of society into research, and also for recruitment of new students and researchers domestically and from overseas. However, proper strategy formulation or goal setting is not an easy task, and consequently many information officers (PIOs and PROs) struggle to find the right answers to daily challenges. The Japan Association of Communication for Science and Technology (JACST) is a network of communications professionals founded in 2007, aiming to share common problems and solutions, reaching beyond institutional walls to help each other and grow together. JACST members engage in active discussions online, take part in numerous seminars and workshops, collaborate on projects, and support the annual nationally-sponsored S&T convention, Science Agora.
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