The event was held on February 22, 2022. 297 people participated.

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Title

Speaker

13:00-13:05

Opening Greeting / Outline

Ui Ikeuchi
(Faculty of Language and Literature, Bunkyo University)

13:05-13:30

The Role of Research Data Policy in the Context of Policy Developments on Research DX

[Abstract]

Takanori Miyake
(MEXT-Japan)

13:30-13:55

The University of Electro-Communications' Vision of a Co-creative Evolutionary Smart Society and its Development into Science 2.0

[Abstract]

Shun'ichi Tano
(President of the University of Electro-Communications (UEC))

13:55-14:20

Research Data Cloud implements the research data management and circulations.

[Abstract]

Jun-ichi Onami
(National Institute of Informatics)

14:20-14:40

Break

14:40-15:40

Panel Discussion (Part 1):
The issues around research data policy

[[ Moderator ]]
*Kazuhiro Hayashi
(National Institute of Science and Technology Policy)
*Ui Ikeuchi
(Faculty of Language and Literature, Bunkyo University)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Takanori Miyake
(MEXT-Japan)

*Shun'ichi Tano
(President of the University of Electro-Communications (UEC))

*Jun-ichi Onami
(National Institute of Informatics)

15:40-15:50

Break

15:50-16:50

Panel Discussion (Part 2):
Discussion with stakeholders involved in research data

[[ Moderator ]]
*Kazuhiro Hayashi
(National Institute of Science and Technology Policy)
*Ui Ikeuchi
(Faculty of Language and Literature, Bunkyo University)

[[ Panelist ]]
*Takanori Miyake
(MEXT-Japan)

*Shun'ichi Tano
(President of the University of Electro-Communications (UEC))

*Jun-ichi Onami
(National Institute of Informatics)

*Masahito NOSÉ
(Nagoya University)

*Shigeki Matsubara
(Nagoya University)

*Tomoko Shirai
(National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES))

*Tomoki Ueno
(The University of Electro-Communications)

*Michiyo Yasuhara
(National Institute of Informatics)

*Nobuhiro Yabuki
(Yokohama National University)

*Shigeru Yatsuzuka
(National Bioscience Database Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency)

*Tomomi Yamagata
(Hokkaido University Library)

16:50-16:55

Closing

Hideaki Takeda
(National Institute of Informatics)

Completed Master’s degree at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo (Master of Science in Information Science and Technology). Joined the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 2003. Mr. Miyake engaged in policy making on nuclear, marine, competitive funding, R&D infrastructure, etc. He was assigned to work for the Cabinet Office, Cabinet Secretariat and Reconstruction Agency. He was in charge of the planning and coordination for the installation of the supercomputer Fugaku at Computational Science Promotion Office, RIKEN. Current position since April 2020.

President of the University of Electro-Communications (UEC). PhD (Engineering). Professor Tano completed his Master’s degree at the Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1983; joined Systems Development Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., in 1983; Visiting Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (1990-91); Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering (1991-95); appointed Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Information Systems, University of Electro-Communications in 1996; Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000-01); and appointed Professor at the University of Electro-Communications in 2002. His research fields include artificial intelligence, ambiguity theory, cognitive modelling, and intelligent HCI.

Project Associate Professor, Research Center for Open Science and Data Platform (RCOS), National Institute of Informatics (NII). Dr. Onami obtained his Ph.D. degree in science at the Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, in March 2009. After working in a private company as a systems engineer for a pharmaceutical corporation, Dr. Onami joined the National Bioscience Database Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), as a researcher and engaged in research on life science databases and search infrastructures. In April 2020, he took up the current position and had involved in the research and development and the management of an academic discovery platform “CiNii Research” and international collaborations.

Dr. Masahito Nosé is an associate professor at Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University since 2018. He earned his PhD degree in geophysics from Kyoto University in March 1998, and has been working for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (1998–2001 postdoctoral fellow) and Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University (2001–2007 assistant, 2007–2018　assistant professor). His external professional activity includes a committee member of Research Data Utilization Forum, an operational committee member of Japan Open Science Summit, and a member of Information and System Committee, Japan Geoscience Union. He has been involved in community activity of minting digital object identifier to research data. His major is solar-terrestrial physics and space physics.

He is a professor in the Information Strategy Office of Nagoya University. He received the Dr. of Engineering from Nagoya University in 1998. After working as an assistant professor, and associate professor at Nagoya University, he has been in his current position since 2017. His research interests include natural language processing, information retrieval and digital library.

Tomoko Shirai completed her PhD in the department of chemistry, Graduate school of science at the University of Tokyo. Thereafter, she worked for the Earth Observation Research Centre of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Rowland/Blake laboratory in the chemistry department at University of California, Irvine (UCI). She joined National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) in 2004. Her main research interest has been environmental impact of atmospheric trace gases, especially greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, halocarbons...). She also fosters open science also fosters open science by operating a database (Global Environmental Database) and developing a research data management system. She is the chair of the subcommittee on promoting DOIs registration for research data, and a member of the Japan Data Repository Network (JDARN), affiliated with the Research Data Utilization Forum (RDUF).

Kazuhiro Hayashi is a senior researcher at the Science and Technology Foresight Center, the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. Mr. Hayashi started turning literatures of the Chemical Society of Japan written in English into digital journals as a business as a part-time job when he was a graduate school student. Mr. Hayashi accumulated observations and improvements through a variety of work experiences such as peer reviewing digital postings, XML publication,improvement of J-STAGE, establishment of digital journal business, and advertisement activities. He thus established this magazine as the digital journal with one of the fastest digital publications in the world, started open access in 2005, and established technology which was compatible with digital books (ePub). Using the accumulated experience,he enhanced the attractiveness of the distribution of scientific information in Japan through the Science Council of Japan, SPARC Japan,and other organizations. He is also interested in the future of digital journals and next-generation communication among researchers. Mr.Hayashi has been conducting policy science research at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy of the Ministry of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan since 2012. He is investigating and researching styles of open science and policy development in addition to scientific technology forecasting studies.He is working as an open science expert in projects for the Cabinet Office, G7 Science & Technology Ministers' Meeting, OECD, and UNESCO.He is a committee member of SPARC.

Ui Ikeuchi is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Language and Literature at Bunkyo University since 2019 and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. She has a Bachelor of Law degree (1995) and a Master of Library and Information Science degree (1997) from Keio University. After working at Ferris University Library from 1997 to 2005, she became a housewife and entered the doctoral program at the University of Tsukuba. Her research focuses on research data sharing and open science. She is a senior researcher of Japan Center for Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (JSPS) and a Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP). She is also a member of the SPARC Japan Seminar 2021 planning working group.

Chief of Information Acquisition Section (also IR specialist), Academic Information Office, Research Promotion and International Affairs Division, University of Electro-Communications. Current position since April 2020. Master of Arts (Philosophy). Mr. Ueno is mainly responsible for books and e-journal related work in the library and assists the procurement and operation of library systems and facility renovation. He is also involved in the university’s IR, digitalisation of administrative work, and research data management.

Michiyo Yasuhara is a working member of the 2021 SPARC Japan Seminar Planning Team, and a staff member at the Kyoto University Library. Since April 2020, she has been in charge of the Secretariat of the Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (JPCOAR), under the Library Liaison Cooperation Office of the NII’s Academic Infrastructure Division. She is also a member of JPCOAR Research Data Working Group.

A Member of the SPARC Japan Seminar 2021 planning working group. Associate Professor, Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support / Research Administrator, Research Initiatives and Promotion Organization, Yokohama National University. He accomplished credits for the doctoral program in International Political Economy, Graduate School Of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba. After studying on international relations in large-scale science projects as a Junior Researcher at the University of Tsukuba from 2012 to 2014, he started his career as a University Research Administrator (URA) at Yokohama National University in 2014. He moved to his current post in April 2020. He is working on science and technology policy studies, institutional research activities, promoting open science in the university.

Researcher, National Bioscience Database Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency. Shigeru Yatsuzuka joined National Bioscience Database Center in 2015 after working as a system engineer. He is in charge of a life science data repository. He is also a representative of Japan Data Repository Network (JDARN) affiliated with Research Data Utilization Forum (RDUF), and a member of 2020 SPARC Japan Seminar Working Group.

Tomomi Yamagata is a librarian of Hokkaido University, and a member of SPARC Japan seminar working group. She is also a member of OA2020 taskforce of Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources(JUSTICE). Her main interest is changes in scholarly communication by spreading of Open Access movement.

In the 6th Science, Technology and Innovation Basic Plan, the promotion of Open Science and data-driven research was positioned as one of the pillars. Under this direction, the "Basic Concept on Management and Utilization of Research Data with Public Funds" was formulated as a specific initiative and creating a data policy is identified as one of the responsibilities of research and development institutions. This presentation will explain the trend of the government policy on the promotion of the Research Digital Transformation (Research DX) and introduce the role, position and current situation of the research data policy within it.

The UEC is promoting the realization of a "co-creative evolutionary smart society"; a future society that embraces a "co-creative evolutionary function" that creates new value (evolutionary knowledge) through the fusion of human, machine, and natural knowledge, and that continues to develop while solving various problems autonomously. The key phrase is "co-creative evolutionary function consisting of three elements". That is: 1) to make all data on the earth (e.g. data produced by [natural and social] sensors and by information systems) and functions (e.g. physical control functions of machines and equipment, functions of information systems) accessible via the Internet; 2) to find new insights (e.g. methods for controlling services and equipment, providing information, diagnosis, etc.) via analysis using AI functions or the collaboration of human and machine knowledge; and 3) to advance the society after verifying the stability (from the perspective of society, systems, control, etc.), monitorability, and controllability of the discovered knowledge, and embedding it into the society. When this process "1) ⇒2) ⇒3) ⇒1) ⇒..." is repeated in real time, the society will continue to evolve autonomously. This mechanism even changes the way of scientific discovery. Until now, humans have paid great efforts to make scientific discoveries; however, the scientific discoveries are expected to be accelerated by freely utilizing data and functions around the world via networks and the co-creation with machine intelligence (AI).

Before implementing the research data policy, it requires an environment in which research data are managed appropriately on the academic information infrastructure. On the other hand, universities and research institutions had to establish new platforms and standards. Therefore, the National Institute of Informatics (NII) has begun to build a public information platform to reduce the burden of research data management on users. This platform, called the NII Research Data Cloud (NII RDC), has a variety of application functions and high processing capacity to support research data management for institutions and researchers in Japan, and to promote the circulation of knowledge in research activities. This presentation will introduce the process of research data management using the NII RDC, including how to publish and search for research data.