Education Paper Index (EPI), created by Educational Policy Research Japan since 1960s, has indexed scholarly papers and magazine articles in the field of educational research and practice. This paper aims at examining overlaps between EPI and CiNii, another major database operated by National Institute of Informatics. From our examination, 59-63% of EPI records are also covered by CiNii. These results are utilized in linking function of EPI system.

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Recently, discovery interface provides various functions in order to select bibliographic items. This paper describes a discovery interface by reflecting class numbers into positional markers on a library map. The interface allows users to understand semantic relationships among bibliographic items behind search results. In this paper, we regard Nippon Decimal Classification (NDC) as semantic relationships. Users can take a panoramic view of semantic structure of search results because the interface indicates positions of items with class numbers on the library map.

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In this study, we investigate the changes in the users' mental representations of a topic during their exploratory search on the Web. This was done by comparing the concept maps depicted before and after each users searching. Participants were instructed to search for and gather Web pages for the task of writing a term paper on two given topics, ecology and trip, while working in either of two conditions: divergent and convergent. A comparative analysis of the concept maps between the pre- and post-search maps indicated that the users in the divergent condition changed their knowledge widely and the users in the convergent condition changed their knowledge deeply. The results also showed that there were more nodes, links, and link labels in the trip task than in the ecology task.

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Parents need to select the picture books for their children, until they can read them by themselves. However, it is difficult for them to find the picture books that are suitable for their children among a number of published books. To resolve such problems, we developed Picbok, a social picture book recommender system that uses children's questions because their preferences are revealed in their questions. On our system, children's questions are recorded by their parents, and are shared by all the other users. Users can recommend picture books to each other. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our system, we conducted an experiment with 25 pairs of parents and their children.

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Wikipedia is an open content project, meaning anyone with an Internet connection can modify or create an article. The number of articles in Japanese Wikipedia achieves a ranking of 7th out of 281 languages. It was conducted a questionnaire on utilization of the Japanese Wikipedia to ask students and other groups for their opinions on various issues such as visibility, utilization experience, reasons, utilization purpose, reliability of articles, editing practices and other languages. The features on utilization of the Japanese Wikipedia by students became clear.

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To reveal the validity of Wikipedia as a gateway of information seeking activities, we examined more than 1,190,000 external links embedded in Japanese Wikipedia to see if there were any dead links or access problems. As a result of analysis, the following facts have been found; 1) About 11% of external links in Japanese Wikipedia were invalid; 2) The external links with the domains such as edu, co.jp and go.jp had quite a few access problems. 3) Newspapers websites had notably high percentage of the dead links.

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In community QA sites as a service for knowledge sharing among anonymous people, it is thought that considering expectations for answers of questioned users is effective to improve the quality of answers. In this paper, we define 5 content types for questions, e.g. fact or opinion, and 6 expected attributes for answers, e.g. diversity or objectivity, as aspects of demands of questioned users. We experimented that 30 testers judge those types and attributes for over 800 questions in NTCIR-8 CQA test collection. As a result, we confirmed questions classifications using 6 attributes were more detailed than using 5 types.

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Community Question Answering (CQA) has recently become a popular means of satisfying personal information needs. However, as the quality of answers posted on CQA sites varies widely, there is a need to effectively extract high-quality answers from CQA. In this study, we manually analyzed the high-quality answers from Yahoo! Chiebukuro data by multiple assessors and identi?ed criteria used by assessors to evaluate high-quality answers.

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"BirdBase" is a representative Web-GIS system, consisting of databases on the bird distribution and habitats in Hokkaido, Japan and Asia, has supplied information to anyone since 2004. The system was developed using ArcIMS of the available version in those days. Then, Maruyama and Ishizuka of the present authors prototyped another Web-GIS system using Google Maps API and relating technology to improve the display function for information of bird distribution and habitants. Institute of Environmental Sciences maintaining BirdBase lent data on the bird distribution in Hokkaido to us as sample data only for the system development in the limited period.

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We are making automatic creation of timetable that suitables students's needs from course title in university. This study suggests technique that estimates student's likes and dislikes from student learning histories, and making timetable auto by diffculty. Student adjusts timetable auto from this function that is extending likes and challenging dislikes. Experiment result, Learning histories information is vaild at pass subject. This paper report that reult.

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The author has made bibliometric analyses on the Thomson Reuters' citation index databases to investigate how many and where the Japanese papers have been published for the last 16 years, with an intension to improve Japanese dispatching capability of our research outcomes. The results show that in around year 2000, over 80% of Japanese papers were published on overseas journals, but the figure has recently become slightly lowered to 79%. Though the situation seems to have settled down, there was found a tremendous growth in number of papers from abroad, which now occupy more than 32% of papers in Japanese journals, whereas the number of Japanese papers is stable. The author shall here raise basic issues in internationalization of academic societies and self-sufficiency of scientific research.

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Funding is considered as one of important input indicators, as same as the number of researchers, which affects research productivity of universities. On the other hand, considering that research funding applications need to pass a rigorous screening by peers, number and amount of accepted research funding could be used as one of output indicators for universities as well. In this study, we focus not only on principal investigators, but also on co-investigators of funding applications to take a look at indicators of university evaluation and research network among universities.

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Even though Citation Map has been in the mainstream of recent study trend in a field of academic landscape achieving the stage of automated clustering, the reality is that experts manually analyze semantic attachment about what kind of group each cluster is. Therefore, we try to achieve an automated extraction of key literature of each cluster in the report, by setting automated interpretation of each cluster as the final purpose of the study.

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The requirements which show evaluation and selection indicator of the heat-resistant materials in the apparatus design in consideration of continuous society are the database construction containing three kinds of risk indices about continuous supply of the resources, environmental change, and toxicity, and we have investigated the database structure. This report investigated the toxicity risk index of heat-resistant materials based on IC50 about the toxicity risk stored in the database. The Web information about three kinds of risk index which added the toxicity risk index was unified, and the relation between these risks and the high temperature properties of heat-resistant materials investigated. The optimal material selection indicator in the apparatus design used in the high temperature environment based on results is shown.

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Being intended for the slight accidents and the hiyari-hatto phenomena of elevetors and stairs we investigated the relation of the changes of their number accompanied with time with handicapped persons-employment- policy of AIST. As a result, it was made clear that the fact that they occured at stairs or in elevators in daily life ment the alarm that AIST must have adopted the policy about how to make the handicapped persons at heights take refuge in the case of emergency and their number expressed the strength of the alarm. The significance of hiyari-hatto phenomena is the possibility for them to show the proper time when the authorities should wrestle with it. Finally it made clear that the dangerous situation for them predicted by what authorities don't wrestle with their refuge and the alarm making it avoid showed the scaling fractal with the self-similarity about complete-rationalities. By this relation the same cause raises necessarily the same result without the influence by changes of surroundings. Making much of the possibility to read out the content of the alarm more than reappearance, we published this hypothesis about the alarm in a hurry in spite of one round of increase and decrease.

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Use of e-books in public libraries in the US and Japan was studied through interviews at libraries. US public libraries have long history of audio books, which have paved the way for e-books. It was reported that close to 100% libraries with over 500,000 user populations were offering e-books in 2010. In Japan, after Chiyoda Public Library introduced e-books in 2007, there were no other instances until in 2011 when two additional libraries, Sakai-shi and Hagi Public Libraries, started servicing e-books. In addition, there was a monitor study at the Kamakura City Library early in 2011. In the US, OverDrive leads the market, and adoption of iPad and Kindle as book readers is under way, while in Japan, WBook is the only player. The future of e-books at public libraries and challenges are discussed.

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This is a study of questionnaire survey on a service of "communal image archives" in 2008. And we compared the services within 2008 and 2011, investigated their sustainability and availability. From this study it become clear that. 1) Sometimes less updating website also lack the access analysis. 2) There is a change in the problem of management of digital archive from previous research in 2004 to our survey in 2008. 3) Digital archives placed by local government disappear easily than which placed by the promotion organization such as NPO.

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The XML dataset is commonly used as the metadata of academic papers. On the other hand, researchers write papers with MS-Word or LaTeX, and in Japan the defacto standard metadata format is the "BIB" for J-STAGE, not XML. Various typesetting data format is used on the submission process and on production process, except XML. For these reason it was thought that operating the XML metadata is very hard for academic papers in Japanese journals. In this paper we discus about the effcity of the method for handling the metadata with various data format constructing by abstract data model mapping to the XML element to the RDB ?eld and introduce its application.

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There is an increasing importance to design, implement, and evaluate policy based on a scientific knowledge and methodology in circumstance of globalization and empowerment of innovation policy. Especially, in information flood and segmentation of disciplines, information and knowledge science should play an important role. In this contribution, the role and remaining issues are discussed.

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In order to obtain the teachings which can make us evade the confusion with the modern various revolutions as much as possible we compared the Meiji Restoration with French Revolution which are in almost the same demand of the times, have the common structure and are markedly different in the degree of confusion. As a result, we made it clear that a new and an old order people collecting widely the information over the contradictory institution and recognizing the point at the issue of a society, the realizable concrete model of our heading for world, the mental attitude adapting ourselves to it, the existence of the force giving politics morality and not allowing the deviation from it were the important teachings .When we apply these conditions to the various present revolutions, it must be noticed that the historical experiences from the Meiji Restoration to the present must be added to them and how we search the information by which we can notice that our social institution is contradictory and the realizable and concrete model to be instructive which there aren't anywhere for the revolution of global scale .

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We have been carrying out quantitative analysis of the trends and extent of important territory research fields of the Science and Technology Basic Plan by keyword analysis. In this study, we show the relationship of research items of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research among each other by using Multidimensional Scaling method. Furthermore, relations among the research items are also analyzed based on research subjects and grant themes of those laboratories focusing on researches around these important areas.

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Although reputation analyses have been developed by utilizing NLP technology, such studies focus on texts on the Web. Critiques of humanities are not seen as main target of those analyses. The purpose of this research is to found a basis of profound semantic analysis of critique. It will be realized by applying numerical analysis to objects of critiques of humanities. This paper focused on names of person and titles. Categorization and co-occurrence analysis were executed about that "who" and "what title" are frequently mentioned in critiques of movie and theater. As a result, critiques of theater are concentric but those of movie are individual. Also as for critiques of theater, the consciousness of art is strong.

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As a story progresses, various expressive aspects may change. The aim of this study is to quantitatively characterize story progression in terms of the verbs employed. Specifically, we target Haruki MURAKAMI's "1Q84", with its parallel novel format novel where odd-numbered and even-numbered chapters have different protagonists and stories, and analyze verb occurrences as indices of character behavior. The two sets of chapters were divided into six parts and whole sentences were automatically parsed to identify the action verbs associated with the characters. Statistical analysis revealed five verbs that have systematic tendencies. Within the odd-numbered chapters, interpersonal actions decrease and mental actions increase, while interpersonal actions increase within the even-numbered chapters. The paper argues that shifts in the relative frequencies of certain action verbs are reflected in the contrastive moods of the odd-numbered chapters (from active to still) and even-numbered chapters (from still to active).

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To present the books that suit children's taste are useful in the practice of reading guidance at school libraries. We have developed the retrieval system using Kansei parameters based on online book reviews of books for children and young adults. In most cases, however, assigning Kansei parameters is not easy for children. It is desirable to present related books by inputting books already read, not by inputting Kansei keywords. To resolve such problems, we have developed a new system, which presents the books which have similar pattern of Kansei parameters of the books input by users. 1245 books for children and young adults were then used to evaluate the system. 10 test subjects evaluated 30 books related to the books input by each of them. The result showed that about 53% of the presented books were judged to be strongly interested.

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e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku is organized by eight universities in Shikoku for training their students as human resources for cooperative region. For promoting independent development of Shikoku, we must create cooperative region where the people can share the awareness "Shikoku is one community". e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku has been established on the background. Our consortium provides e-Learning contents of their characteristic lectures. Through these activities, e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku constructs educational infrastructure called "Knowledge of Shikoku" in order to train the above mentioned students. "Knowledge of Shikoku" consists of two subject groups. The former group is for general education courses to educate attractiveness of resources, brand, history, topography, culture, tradition, and so on of Shikoku. The latter is for professional education courses to tackle the various issues in Shikoku. With using "Knowledge of Shikoku" integrated in e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku, we an introduce the attractiveness of Shikoku to all over the country, provide characteristic educational programs to train the students who love Shikoku and have high level specialty, and then enhance independent development of Shikoku. In addition, we believe that the students trained by these programs participate actively in Shikoku and then the knowledge power in Shikoku can be improved.

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"Shikoku study" is a match of the regional science that the e-Knowledge consortium Shikoku promotes. The purpose is to discover and rediscover the charm of Shikoku and to construct the future of Shikoku by collecting the education and research resource of eight universities to join the consortium. The maximum feature is that each university shares this "Shikoku study" by e-Learning. In this text, it introduces mainly the activity of Kagawa University about the execution condition of three years from fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2010. And, after basing the analysis of the questionnaire total result of going to the student who finishes the credit transfer subject, I view the ideal way of the regional science at the university in the future.

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The activity of e-Knowledge Consortium Shikoku is supported by eight regional universities. These universities agree with the noble purposes that follows academic activities, advancement of the regional culture and so forth. In terms of education, the consortium adopts LMS, Learning Management System in order to support the system of credit agreement. We adopts a technology for the federated authentication and authorization. Applying this technology to distributed LMS among universities is an interesting practice although the technology itself is not unique. This report tackles to summary our activities around the technology.

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