In recent years, automobiles are expected to create new value by connecting with various devices. In the future, it is expected that a communication function called V2X will be installed for automatic operation, and it will become an important position as IoT more and more. On the other hand, it is pointed out that many of the current vehicles are not sufficiently security measures. For this reason, security enhancement is required in the future. Moreover, automobile security has various problems and is expected to become more and more important in the future. This paper focuses on the overview of IoT and information security issues in automotive industry.

The Survey on Attitude for transferable skills was performed for approximately 500 doctoral students. Over half of students recognized the importance of abilities about specialized field and the non-specialized field with 7:3. Dividing abilities of non-specialized field into 12 kinds of transferable skills, the survey asked students about both of their insufficient ability, and abilities that they want to learn in their Ph.D. courses. The answer had most linguistic ability. In addition, there were many answers about ability for presentation and communication, ability for making research plan and writing grant proposal, and ability for project management. The number of their answer was the lowest about ethics. This result showes that the interest in ethic of the doctoral course students was lower than other transferable skills. Quality assurance has become much important in scientific activities today. The education for research integrity requires not only the spread of its system, but also improvement in consciousness of doctoral students.

The Act on the Protection of Personal Information was enforced in 2017 in Japan. The act introduces the new concept of an Anonymously Processed Information and it is still being discussed how to transform personal data into this type of data. In EU, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been established. In this situation, this paper focuses on cases as follows: 1) How to protect the privacy of person a) who sends queries to the search engine from the search engine in terms of person's identity and b) question per se. 2) The method to protect the identity of person whose personal data is stored in the database.

Scholarly output deposited in institutional repositories in Japan has been broadly distributed in a standard metadata schema called junii2, and through Institutional Repositories Database (IRDB) developed by National Institute of Informatics (NII). With recent global situation change and technology development on scholarly communications, Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (JPCOAR) has just developed and released JPCOAR Schema ver1.0 on October 2017, which is a brand-new metadata schema that will succeed junii2 and promote smooth international distribution of research outputs created in Japan. In this article, we will provide an overview and philosophy of this new schema, including discussion during the development process.