The present authors have collected geographic information generated in the tsunami recovery processes in Aceh province in Indonesia, and have developed an integration information system of collected information. The processes are performed with international cooperation and information sharing. The system is applied to show steps and results of the processes, whose information are described. The system is also applied to show resources for future developing, whose information is described.

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　The changes to globalization are remarkable at the various aspects of politics, economy, and society. It is an intention which is originally going to carry out regional integration of currency, social security,education, working, administration of justice, political integration, etc. which are the exclusive responsibility of a country, and it is going to standardize, promoting the global standard which crossed the border and also maintaining nationality and a race. There are EU and TPP as a typical example.
　As a result, various cultural differences, such as age, an illness, capability, school education and sex difference, are produced. In these various differences, uniquely, only language is directly linked with a race and the positive preservation as a multilingual principle is made. The management Japanese-language-education system which becomes a hint of important solution was considered.

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　Four simple numerical formulae of "Model of Lattice Structure" (MLS)expresses dynamics of "constant circulation" in which natural non-equilibrium open systems, including human brain, deviate from the balance of energy at the critical point and return to it.
　MLS is a fundamental model of "complementary criticality", and it is applied to "Dynamic Model of Human Brain to Process Information" (DMHB) for constructing DMHB's core concept. DMHB expresses complementarily critical order of the cognitive neural- networks in human brain constructively, complementarily critical order in which self-organization of information is attained dynamically.
　The formation and application of human knowledge is realized in the process of the dynamics of complementarily critical self-organization.

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　Through the 20th century, mankind had experienced three tragic totalitarian systems which are called Nazism, militarism and communism. On the other hand, in the age of Ikeda Cabinet in Japan, the second half of 20^th century, Japan created a high level of economic growth in a short time by carrying out a income - doubling plan unanimously and freely. Compared with these totalitarians considering demands of age about environmental problem and security, mankind was found to stand at the entrance of a large scale of the social revolution that we have a view of the world in common and realize it without excluding part of mankind, raising revolution, security depending on genocidal weapons and neglecting individual sovereignty which must start toward a sustainable economic action aiming at maintaining environmental preservation.
　Moreover the action of N.Korea was found to be inversely to these demands of age.

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　A trial for the development of teaching materials for accident prevention is presented. Multiple disasters will happen when an earthquake occurred. People will have to move and make a judgmental decision at unusual condition, and it will create more problems. The purpose of these teaching materials is to know relation between cause and effect of many things associated with disasters. People will not become panicky if they try to imagine what will happen when an earthquake occurred.

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The locations of historical Japanese castles are positioned on the web along geographic and time coordinates. The work was initiated with the objectives of the possible opening up of new viewpoints and gaining of knowledge by controlling time in order to allocate the castles from their emergence to their disappearance on a map. As references in web implementations, for example, there is the Cultural Heritage Online in Japan. The site has postings of the current cultural heritages. In the present work, historical buildings which are the castles are saved along geographic and time coordinates. In order to represent them on the web, the content is described by using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. The representations have been made using responsive web design to support the output size for the monitor.

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　Moodle is used by lecturers for the purpose of giving out the handouts, checking for attendance, submission of reports, support for preparation and brush-up, or absent students. This is a practical report of using LMS(Moodle) at outside of lectures. The purpose is sharing daily information between 30 staffs. Moodle is useful even at outside of lectures.

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　We describe our solver system that aims to answer the University Entrance Examination as a first step in the Todai Robot project. Our system focuses on the subject of History, assuming that we can answer within the knowledge of high school textbooks. We tried to make use of simpler knowledge structure in order to explore the potential of such an assumption.

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　English abstract: In the Library and Information Science class, the Author have students write and edit Wikipedia articles. Groups of 5-6 students each chose an article topic, and created a Wikipedia article with a pre-registered account. Since 2007, 25 articles were created including two edits of existing articles. Among them, four new articles were later removed, and two edits were deleted, but the rest are still alive. A survey of students revealed that many were surprised how easy to edit Wikipedia articles. A survey of teachers about the use of Wikipedia was described, too.

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　In this paper, we analyzed grades in college courses to investigate whether users'learning histories and its grade score affected their future selection of courses and its grade score. We examine whether the histories are available to predict their future grade automatically. We extracted some features from the learning histories of the students. Then, we carried out a preliminary experiment to examine wheher it is able to predict grade score of courses from the learning histories. We found that students'learning histories and grade score could be used for predicting grade score effectively.

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　A trial for the development of math-science educational materials is presented. Most of the natural phenomena can be expressed in mathematical equations and the equations help systematic understanding of the phenomena. However, for students without a solid background of elementary mathematics, it is difficult to comprehend the natural phenomena through equations. We, therefore, developed a material that assists understanding of the natural phenomena not through equations but through simulations on the web. The materials may help attract high school students to sciences who tend to avoid sciences due to the superficial difficulty. The material presented here simulates the growth of Escherichia coli, one of the well-studied bacteria. The material will accept changes in parameters for the growth conditions by the users and visualize the impact of the change on the web. This functionality may also contribute to the elementary understanding of biotechnology.

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　We developed digital learning contents by EPUB3 for a library exploration study. The library exploration study means that students explore inside of real library for seeking literatures. These contents work on iPad, and look like games to encourage students for seeking literatures. Through this type of textbook, different contents are give for each student. We also developed an e-book building system to produce some different EPUB3 outputs from a given scenario. In this paper, we report an outcome and findings from a practice at a class, where the contents were used.

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　We conducted some proposal and implementation of feature enhancements of a Learning Management System Moodle, with the purpose of support for both students and teachers.
　For example, they are video lessons, the automation of the collection of evaluation information.
　Additionally, we conducted visualization of potential response tree, introduction of the GUI assist tool for creating the tree, and constructed a question bank.

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　We propose a loosely coupled implementation model that allows cataloging systems to record FRBR Work and Expression entities connecting bibliographic records maintained by existing libraries. The proposed model enables a cataloging system that records Work and Expression entities to operate independently from existing cataloging systems. We have developed a prototype system that uses CiNii Books as an existing cataloging system and showed its feasibility.

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　The researches that analyze the search histories of Web pages associated with the users' actions become popular to grasp the purpose of the search or to clarify the characteristics of the behavior.Although some works thought of the time of searching and browsing, those did not take into consideration the users' experiences, the knowledge or the page qualities. The goal of our research is to obtain the process of personal Web searching, focusing on relations between the users'characteristics or the page qualities and the times of information retrieval. This paper presents the overview and the results of the experiments.

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We analyzed the quantity and the contents of the press reports of Russia about Japan, and tried consideration on the potential factors influencing on the relationship between Japan and Russia.
It became clear that the quantity and the contents of the report have a big difference by area, and the difference is reflecting the closeness of the area with Japan.

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　Film archives or the institutions, which hold moving image collections, have faced the issues on organizing the materials for effective access. For proliferation of making use of the collections, each bodies necessarily require the construction of information system to improve the access to their holdings. In this study, subject access especially thesaurus for moving image indexing is focused and then, the possibility of application to specific collection is examined.

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　In cooperation with the Information Technology Center, Ochanomizu University Library has begun the service to lend a personal computer automatically by Locker, in 2010. The purpose of this service is to improve the information literacy of students.
　In this report, we will report the operation and user support and the situation of utilization of this service, from the point of view of student staff(Learning adviser).

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　Students can study by themselves using computers at the learning commons. Graduate students stay at the learning commons as supporters, called learning advisers. The first author worked as a learning adviser for 2 years. Afterwards I am working at IT center, the unit for preparing and maintaining information technology device in the learning commons. This is a practical report of support for information-related education in the learning commons at Ochanomizu University, based on experience as a user, an adviser, a staff, respectively.

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　Recently, library cooperation is being tried by many school libraries. The cooperation between public library, university library and school library is possible for high school library. However, it is not clear how high school students are seeking information from these libraries. We conducted focus group interviews of 28 high school students, and analyzed sentences of dialogs. Finally, we considered about what is merit or demerit for high school students in each library type.

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　Children's newspapers are specifically prepared for children. The first such newspaper in Japan is said to be, "Kodomo Shinbun", launched in 1876. The history of children's newspapers was discussed based on archives of the Japan Newspaper Museum (Yokohama), and other sources. The article types were compared between 16 archival papers pictured at the Museum, and 23 current papers collected by the Author. The selected article types were: news, school reports, amusements, study, advertisements, and war articles (for papers during the war period). The article types, styles, and added rubies were common for both current papers and archival papers. But it looks like the current papers have more "study" articles and less "amusement" articles than archival papers.

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　With progress of the digitization in the local government, the digitization of minutes of the Local Assembly has been promoted. For example, in the Web site of many metropolis and the prefectures assemblies, we can use the database of past minutes. In this study, it investigates the present conditions of the shown minutes of municipal assemblies of the whole country. Based on these present conditions analysis, it discusses a problem of the digitization of minutes of the Local Assembly.

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It is investigated how results of academic research in universities are reported towards the public. This time, the difference in correspondence of an adoption rate and a newspaper publishing company centering on the relation of the newspaper article of the announcement by which Press Releases were carried out, and a national paper, etc. report the investigated result.

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The Digital Native Generation consists of those who were born and grown up,being surrounded by the Internet and personal computers,and who feel naturally living with them,use them without any hesitation. They show specific differences from their former generation and it is important to provide them with instructions of a new type when they are involved in educational systems. We focused on the features of them while doing tasks at university,searching information on the web with an explicit instruction to use the Internet and we investigated the changes of the volume and variety of their vocabulary as part of their knowledge before and after the tasks. We had two classes to make researches on; CLASS W was given an instruction to search on the web and CLASS L was given an instruction to search books in the library. These instructions were explicitly told every time during the whole course from April to December in 2012. The results showed that those two classes had had different features about their ‘Word association' task (the average mark: CLASS W-pre 6.9,post 13.2; CLASS L-pre 5.8,post 9.7).

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　We are aiming to share bibliographic materials and non-bibliographic materials by using a qualified Dublin Core metadata on repository system named Academic Resource Repository. However, there is an information lack problem in OAI metadata harvesting via oai_dc.On the other hand, it is growing interest in LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Object) that is an international harvesting schema for museum object recently. In this paper, we study about the potentiality of LIDO in Academic Resource Repository.

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In recent year, social concern about exchanging and sharing of academic resources included non-bibliographic between universities is increasing. However, in actual situation, there are some problems about preservation and digitalization of academic resources. In this paper, a case study of scientific apparatuses since the Meiji era, we discuss about construction of repository for non-bibliographic.

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　Recently, the importance of public involvement is increasing because our societies currently face complicated and ongoing social issues. We aim to develop technologies for sharing context between participants of public debate in order to facilitate constructive debate without context gap. To develop technology for sharing context between participants, we present a prototype ontology to expand a Linked Open Dataset called SOCIA (Social Opinions and Concerns for Ideal Argumentation) that we have developed.

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　In order to digitize structures of stories and to store those into some database, it is promising that the plot, which has been utilized in narratology, becomes a unit of the structures of stories. The plots are composed of the functions of the story, though it is difficult to unify the granularity of those functions. Therefore this paper proposed to define the structures of stories, which include plots, as multi-layer and recursive structure. Further, the actant theory was utilized in order to describe and to pattern more complex relationships of characters in stories. Also it was pointed out that there is the possibility of describing generic and more detail structure of stories, by describing the nature of the relationship between each actants according to purpose of each person, each function in the plot.

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　A land and house investigator is a holder of the national qualification as an investigator who, by the request of others, examines and surveys such matters as where lands and houses are located, and in what form, as well as how they are being utilized, and carries out tasks such as the production of drawings and the procedure of application for registration regarding the description of real property. And, although the holder of the qualification is familiar to citizens as it is possible to casually consult the holder as a consultant about problems, or troubles with neighbors, in life scenes and production sites of land, buildings, roads and local areas, the current reality is that the recognition by citizens is not so high because of such reasons as the obscureness of the naming of the land and house investigator. Thus, in this paper, the role and historical development of the land and house investigator will be discussed by looking back at its history and at various instituted systems. Further, an outline and perspective of ADR (Boundary Dispute Consultation Center) by Land and House Investigators' Associations in collaboration with lawyers, which were born amidst the currents of reform of the judicial system, will be discussed also.

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　The Real Estate is important property in narrow Japan, and its conjugation consist a base imformation of any industrials. It means the conjugation and management of cadastre is important tasks as governmental and personal. Cadastral information includes geodesic numerical value, legal rights, and compositive information such as each archival records. Cadastre has been researched by 2 ways which are geodesic and legal with a basically chemistry, because its traditional researching were divided into arts course and science course at Japanese colleges in the past. In addition, some tasks of cadastre are coming up from experiences of Hanshin Big Earthquake and Tohoku Big Earthquake 2 years ago.
Which is the problems of boundaries removing and object for rights, and another one is the problem about cutting down damages by a disaster and protecting our life from a disaster. Land and house investigator is active in property registration in Japan, and recently draw attention as the legal professtional of surveying who have knowledge of cadastre. Land and house investigator who ordinally survey at the field and consider the legal problems assume a role of connecting between jurisprudence and surveying.Earth crust moved 5.85m max to south east, went down -1.14m because of this disaster. We can manage the movement value because of we defined values of movement and its angle as a geodesic numerical value by re-surveying primary control marks, and Ministry of Justice published the policy about land moving. But we have had no clear answer yet about rights problem which are getting out on affected properties. We found that neglect histrial obuject as cadastral marks, geographical name (ex. village name), and traditional stories about the land, which are important cadastral information. Japanese academic society researched a only part of cadastre in the past. For Preparing for new disasters we know will come, and keeping up new spatial data, I believe researching about Japanese cadastre should have bigger range of knowledge, we should think about this compositive cadastre more at the JSIK.

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　The cadastral Information is the information that to reveal the position of the land, the relationship between the trait and ownership. It has a great deal important data's related to the assets. Therefore can expect the contribution to our people by utilization of cadastral information. Hence we will consider about utilization of Cadastral Information after propose our technology of Big Data analysis. Especially, we will do citation analysis of Cadastral Information by apply the bibliometric. Then, will do Clustering by Newman method. Finally, we will consider to discover new knowledge by the highangle map of result of clustering.

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　This article discusses some methods for a systematization of cadastral information as a knowledge infrastructure to promote effective use of them from two approaches. One approach is ontological engineering and the other is Linked Open Data (LOD). Ontologies clarify concepts that appear in the target domains and provide methods to systematize knowledge in a format which are readable for both of human and machine. Therefore, they contribute to improvement of interoperability of cadastral information. On the other hand, Linked Open Data is a technique to publish data on the Web. It provides a method for linking data each other and aims to create a new value through the linked data. To link cadastral information with other open data could promote useful use of them.

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　All of the knowledge of professionals will be oriented to the ontology. Recently we can see the artificial intelligence because of semantic web technology has advanced. For example, smart cell phone with intelligence knowledge voice navigator.
　The cadastre are the information of properties (boundaries, Area, and its details of process) and the rights information (ownerships, occupations, mortgages, regulations, and rules) on land administration. Japan is island country. There for we don't have any borders on our land with other countries. Which made Japanese cadastre system very specialized.
　The land administration domain model (LADM) by International federation of surveyors (FIG) was approved as an official international ISO Standard on 1 Nov 2012. And then, we need the spatial information to recover from the Tohoku Earthquake as fast as we can. The aim is making Japanese land administration easier. The time is coming to make the artificial intelligence knowledge by professionals.

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　This report examines how the trace of natural disasters such as "Massive tsunami of Meiwa" in 1771 was recorded on the cadastral maps and cadasters produced by "The land arrangement enterprise" from around 1899 in Okinawa Prefecture which remain in Miyako and Yaeyama Islands especially. In Tarama Island, for example,these cadastral maps and cadasters show the structure of village with town planning and forest belt which has been called "Po-gu" around housing lands and farmlands can be seen clearly in the flooded district by "Massive tsunami of Meiwa". Moreover, many of land owners who lived in the flooded district had owned farmland on the hills far distantly from residences of them. Although it is often indicated that forest belt had been maintained for "protection-against-wind" function and and that their unnatural possession of farmland was formed on the unique history of colony movement in Okinawa, it is also assumed a possibility that such a structure of village was built by the memories and the measures against "Massive tsunami of Meiwa".

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