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The 2nd SPARC Japan Seminar 2015
"Towards the new paradigm of science and scholarly communication environment - e-Science, research data sharing, and research data infrastructures -"
Date&Time October 21, 2015 / 10:15 - 17:45
Place National Institute of Informatics, 12F 1208 & 1210 Meeting room
Related Info. :

Open Access Week 2015 "Open for Collaboration"

The event was held on October 21, 2015. Around 100 people participated.

Please see SPARC Japan NewsLetter, No.27 and videos.
Documents and slides are available only on Japanese version page.

Outline
Research data is becoming one of the most important topics among academic stakeholders of research and scholarly communications. It has been recognized that research data is produced through research processes and is often held by researchers or the communities to which they belong, as their properties. Technological revolutions since 1990s of information and communications, especially on the Internet and the Web, thereafter wireless communications and mobile computing have made it easy to share the research data through those telecommunication commodities, which resulted in our strong capacity to deal with large volume and wide variety of data in research. This changing research environment leads to the “Fourth paradigm” of scientific research which is expected as a new approach for the scientific discoveries. It means the same as e-Science, data-driven science, as well as data-centric science. In parallel, Open Access policy has been widely spread and stated around the academic world, and the openness also affected the research data context, in that researchers share the data among themselves under the name of Open Data and Open Science in several years. Now, we are tackling the issues on sharing research data towards the new paradigm of science. This seminar aims at giving an opportunity for all stakeholders of research data including researchers, research administrators, engineers, publishers, and governmental agencies, those who are responsible for research support such as librarians and technical staff, and all the people who have the same interests towards the new paradigm of science, to understand what the essential is in the topic and what is needed for its supporting environment. It will hopefully be a trigger for all participants to start discussing the theme.
Program
Moderator:Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics) / Part I & II

                Kei Kurakawa (National Institute of Informatics) / Part III
Time

Title

Speaker

Video

10:15-10:20

Opening Greeting/Outline

Jun Adachi
(National Institute of Informatics)

video

(3:15)

video

10:20-11:50

Part I: Keynote address

Open Data is not Enough

[Abstract]

Mark Parsons
(Research Data Alliance)

video

(91:45)

video

11:50-13:00

Break

13:00-13:20

Part II: Science and research data

Design of Research Infrastructure and Utilization of Research Data for Breaking through "Research Barriers"

[Abstract]

Asanobu Kitamoto
(National Institute of Informatics)

video

(19:55)

video

13:20-13:40

Inductively Think about Impacts of Open Platforms on Research

[Abstract]

Daisuke Ikeda
(Department of Informatics, Kyushu University)

video

(22:27)

video

13:40-14:00

Research data sharing in the field of solar-terrestrial physics

[Abstract]

Masahito Nosé
(Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

video

(19:33)

video

14:00-15:00

Panel Discussion

How ought the research data sharing to be?

[[ Moderator ]]
*Hideaki Takeda
(National Institute of Informatics)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Mark Parsons
(Research Data Alliance)
*Asanobu Kitamoto
(National Institute of Informatics)
*Daisuke Ikeda
(Department of Informatics, Kyushu University)
*Masahito Nosé
(Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

video

(59:07)

video

15:00-15:20

Break

15:20-15:40

Part III: Research data infrastructure of Japan

Research data infrastructure of Japan

[Abstract]

Takafumi Kato
(Japan Science and Technology Agency)

video

(20:21)

video

15:40-16:00

Database for upper atmospheric science ~Activity of the IUGONET project~

[Abstract]

Yoshimasa Tanaka
(National Institute of Polar Research)

video

(17:58)

video

16:00-16:20

Sharing Data Sets as Research Resources

[Abstract]

Keizo Oyama
(National Institute of Informatics)

video

(23:39)

video

16:20-16:40

Introductory Guide of Open Data for Administrative Staff

[Abstract]

Nami Hoshiko
(Kyushu University Library)

video

(19:45)

video

16:40-17:40

Panel Discussion

What is the needs of researchers for the research data environment and how should we deal with?

[[ Moderator ]]
*Kei Kurakawa
(National Institute of Informatics)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Takafumi Kato
(Japan Science and Technology Agency)
*Yoshimasa Tanaka
(National Institute of Polar Research)
*Keizo Oyama
(National Institute of Informatics)
*Nami Hoshiko
(Kyushu University Library)

video

(57:24)

video

17:40-17:45

Closing

Kiyohiko Sakai
(National Institute of Informatics)

video

(3:57)

video

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Speaker
Asanobu Kitamoto (National Institute of Informatics)

Asanobu KITAMOTO is Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics. He earned Ph. D. from Division of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He is interested in research toward creating value from real-world big data, and works on heterogeneous and multidisciplinary data, such as earth science data, disaster data and humanities data, to develop methodologies such as data integration, analysis and visualization. Recently he is also involved in related activities to "Open Science," and aims at exploring new possibilities of academic research on top of research infrastructure through collaboration with scientists and experts across disciplines. He received several awards including Japan Media Art Festival, Jury Recommended Works.

Daisuke Ikeda (Department of Informatics, Kyushu University)

He received his master and doctor degree in science at Department of Informatics, Kyushu University after he received his bachelor degree at Department of Physics. His career started at the Computer Center, Kyushu University, then moved to Kyushu University Library, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics, Kyushu University. His research interests include data analysis, such as data mining, and data infrastructure, such as the institutional repositories.

Masahito Nosé (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

Ph.D. received from Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University in 1998. Postdoctoral fellow for 1998-2001 at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Assistant Professor since 2001. Specialized in solar-terrestrial physics and geomagnetism. Main research interests include geomagnetic variations, pulsations, dynamics of energetic particles in the inner magnetosphere, substorm, and geomagnetic indices. Recently involved in minting digital object identifiers to research data.

Takafumi Kato (Japan Science and Technology Agency)

Started career as a staff of development of an e-learning service. Changed jobs to Japan Science and Technology corporation in 2000. Now in charge of Japan Link Center at Department of Databases for Information and Knowledge Infrastructure in Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Yoshimasa Tanaka (National Institute of Polar Research)

Yoshimasa Tanaka is Project Associate Professor at National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and at Department of Polar Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies). He received his ph.D in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University. After that, he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Venture Business Laboratory, Kyushu University (from 2002 to 2003), Expert Researcher at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (from 2003 to 2006), Project Researcher at Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center, Research Organization of Information and Systems (from 2006 to 2009), and Project Assistant Professor at NIPR (from 2009 to 2015). He has held his current position since April 2015.

Keizo Oyama (National Institute of Informatics)

Professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and at SOKENDAI (the Graduate University for Advanced Studies). He completed his doctoral program at Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo and received his doctoral degree from the University of Tokyo in 1985. After that, he was a research associate at the Center for Bibliographic Information, the University of Tokyo, a research associate, an associate professor and a professor at the National Center for Science Information Systems, and has been in the current position since 2000. He is also the director of the Center for Dataset Sharing and Collaborative Research, which were established in April 2015. His research interests are in information retrieval, Web information access and usage, etc.

Nami Hoshiko (Kyushu University Library)

Chief of the Digital Repository Section at Kyushu University Library. A member of the working group of SPARC Japan seminar. In September 2006, she was sent to the Queensland University of Technology (Australia) for six months on-the-job training on institutional repository. From 2007 to 2010 and from 2013 to the present, she has been involved in the management of institutional repository at Kyushu University.

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Abstract
Open Data is not Enough
(Mark Parsons)

In recent years governments and research institutions have emphasized the need for open data as a fundamental component of open science. But we need much more than the data themselves for them to be reusable and useful. We need descriptive and machine-readable metadata, of course, but we also need the software and the algorithms necessary to fully understand the data. We need the standards and protocols that allow us to easily read and analyze the data with the tools of our choice. We need to be able to trust the source and derivation of the data. In short, we need an interoperable data infrastructure, but it must be a flexible infrastructure able to work across myriad cultures, scales, and technologies. This talk will present a concept of infrastructure as a body of human, organizational, and machine relationships built around data. It will illustrate how a new organization, the Research Data Alliance, is working to build those relationships to enable functional data sharing and reuse.

Design of Research Infrastructure and Utilization of Research Data for Breaking through "Research Barriers"
(Asanobu Kitamoto)

Academic research is with many types of barriers, and breaking through those barriers is an important challenge to explore new possibilities of academic research. An important challenge is to develop technology and strategy to go beyond various barriers, such as a barrier that divides communities, or a barrier that prevents the usage of data. The purpose of this presentation is to introduce case studies on research infrastructure that has been developed by the presenter, such as Digital Typhoon, Digital Silk Road, and Digital Archives of East Japan Great Earthquake, to discuss what kind of barriers we faced, and how we broke the barriers. The same problem is also critical in "Open Science," and the presentation delivers personal opinions on how informatics can contribute to the solution of the problem.

Inductively Think about Impacts of Open Platforms on Research
(Daisuke Ikeda)

In the field of scholarly communication, we are seeing buzzwords about science, such as, the fourth paradigm, open science, and data-centric science. But we can not say that their meaning is clear. I've been conducting two types of researches: one type uses data in different research fields and the other about infrastructures of data and information, such as database and information retrieval. Based on these experience, we try to think inductively about impacts of open platforms, such as data, software, and the Internet, on the research. Our starting point is "science" and "ICT", which seem to be included in the above keywords, and the goal of this talk is to clarify the concept of the keywords by, for example, shedding light on the difference between some researches which uses ICT but are not science.

Research data sharing in the field of solar-terrestrial physics
(Masahito Nosé)

Solar-terrestrial physics is the study of various phenomena taking place in the area from approximately 50 km altitude to the Moon's orbit (approximately 36,000 km altitude) and is emerging since the launch of artificial satellites in the late 1950's. Since the phenomena occur in vast space and should be measured with various quantities (e.g., electric field, magnetic field, plasma particles, and plasma waves), the data sharing in international research collaboration is the common culture. Physical phenomena in space are transient and their occurrence cannot be artificially controlled; thus researchers can only make passive measurements of the phenomena. Thus they intend to collect data as much as possible when they perform an event analysis, making the barrier for the research data sharing lower. In this talk, the research data sharing in the field of solar-terrestrial physics will be introduced.

Research data infrastructure of Japan
(Takafumi Kato)

In order to share and reuse research data, a permanent identifier DOI registration agency in Japan, Japan Link Center, expanded its system to be able to register DOI for research data. On the other hand, registration of DOI for research data around the world is at a progressive stage to investigate some of issues. Also in Japan it is necessary to push forward extraction and investigation of the issues. Therefore, before starting DOI registration for research data, we organized an experimental project with research institutes, reviewed some issues to DOI registration for research data, designed its operation, discussed about practical use of DOI and wrote a report and a guideline.

Database for upper atmospheric science ~Activity of the IUGONET project~
(Yoshimasa Tanaka)

Recent major environmental problems, which are exemplified by global warming, are essentially global phenomena that are caused by many complex factors. To understand completely these phenomena, it is necessary to comprehensively analyze various types of data obtained globally, from North Pole to South Pole. The upper atmosphere corresponds to the region from the Earth’s atmosphere above 60 km altitude to the Sun and is characterized by the existence of various data observed with telescope, camera, radar, etc. on the ground and satellite. Thus, it is important to develop an environment that allows researchers to search, retrieve, and analyze such various data. The Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation Network (IUGONET) project has developed the infrastructure for upper atmospheric science since 2009. I would like to introduce the activities of the IUGONET project.

Sharing Data Sets as Research Resources
(Keizo Oyama)

In the field of information technology, the distance between research and practice is shrinking rapidly. Large scale real data generated by real operating systems are therefore more and more indispensable as research resources in these days. The Center for Dataset Sharing and Collaborative Research is, as a part of its activities, operating "Informatics Research Data Repository" (NII-IDR), through which we provide, in an open way, researchers with various kinds of data sets offered mainly by private companies that run services over the Internet. In this talk, the current status and the future plan concerning the activity of NII-IDR are presented.

Introductory Guide of Open Data for Administrative Staff
(Nami Hoshiko)

In this presentation, I would like to consider the contribution to open data from the standpoint of administrative staff. In the rising tide of the open science, the importance of research data sharing has been recognized in each university. However, few universities in Japan start specific consideration on the role of administrative staff in open data at this point, beyond the ambiguous understanding that "research data should be opened". I would like to introduce basic information of open data to clarify the image of our work as an administrative staff on process of constructing new operation framework for open data.

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