Building an Integrated Database System of Information on Disaster Hazard, Risk, and Recovery Process – Cross-Media Database (3)

本年度はクロスメディアプロジェクトに新しい幾つかの電子図書館イニシアチブを統合するための研究を開始した。本稿はこれらに関する研究，すなわち，デジタルリポジトリー, ソーシャル・ブックマーキング, またダイナミック・クラシフィケイションに関する調査をまとめたものである。技術検討を行ったものには, 自動フォーマット検証及び特徴付けの機能を有するJHOVE; 研究用データを入手，格納，インデックス化，保存，そして再配信するためのデジタルリポジトリーであるDspace; 無料のオンライン参照管理システムであるCannotea; また，組織が提供する情報のタイプを基に検索結果を分類するダイナミック・クラシフィケイションが含まれる。Research in adopting digital library initiatives into the XMDB project has begun during the year. This report specifically focuses on these activities: digital repository researches, social bookmarking, and dynamic classification. Some of the technologies that were examined include JHOVE, which provides automated format validation and characterization; Dspace, which is a digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes research data; Cannotea, which is a free online reference management service; and Dynamic Classification, which is an approach to organize search results by the types of information provided by the organizations themselves.本年度はクロスメディアプロジェクトに新しい幾つかの電子図書館イニシアチブを統合するための研究を開始した。本稿はこれらに関する研究，すなわち，デジタルリポジトリー, ソーシャル・ブックマーキング, またダイナミック・クラシフィケイションに関する調査をまとめたものである。技術検討を行ったものには, 自動フォーマット検証及び特徴付けの機能を有するJHOVE; 研究用データを入手，格納，インデックス化，保存，そして再配信するためのデジタルリポジトリーであるDspace; 無料のオンライン参照管理システムであるCannotea; また，組織が提供する情報のタイプを基に検索結果を分類するダイナミック・クラシフィケイションが含まれる。Research in adopting digital library initiatives into the XMDB project has begun during the year. This report specifically focuses on these activities: digital repository researches, social bookmarking, and dynamic classification. Some of the technologies that were examined include JHOVE, which provides automated format validation and characterization; Dspace, which is a digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes research data; Cannotea, which is a free online reference management service; and Dynamic Classification, which is an approach to organize search results by the types of information provided by the organizations themselves

Distributed human computation framework for linked data co-reference resolution

Distributed Human Computation (DHC) is a technique used to solve computational problems by incorporating the collaborative effort of a large number of humans. It is also a solution to AI-complete problems such as natural language processing. The Semantic Web with its root in AI is envisioned to be a decentralised world-wide information space for sharing machine-readable data with minimal integration costs. There are many research problems in the Semantic Web that are considered as AI-complete problems. An example is co-reference resolution, which involves determining whether different URIs refer to the same entity. This is considered to be a significant hurdle to overcome in the realisation of large-scale Semantic Web applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for building a DHC system on top of the Linked Data Cloud to solve various computational problems. To demonstrate the concept, we are focusing on handling the co-reference resolution in the Semantic Web when integrating distributed datasets. The traditional way to solve this problem is to design machine-learning algorithms. However, they are often computationally expensive, error-prone and do not scale. We designed a DHC system named iamResearcher, which solves the scientific publication author identity co-reference problem when integrating distributed bibliographic datasets. In our system, we aggregated 6 million bibliographic data from various publication repositories. Users can sign up to the system to audit and align their own publications, thus solving the co-reference problem in a distributed manner. The aggregated results are published to the Linked Data Cloud

Multi-perspective requirements engineering for networked business systems: a framework for pattern composition

How business and software analysts explore, document, and negotiate requirements for enterprise systems is critical to the benefits their organizations will eventually derive. In this paper, we present a framework for analysis and redesign of networked business systems. It is based on libraries of patterns which are derived from existing Internet businesses. The framework includes three perspectives: Economic value, Business processes, and Application communication, each of which applies a goal-oriented method to compose patterns. By means of consistency relationships between perspectives, we demonstrate the usefulness of the patterns as a light-weight approach to exploration of business ideas

Aerospace medicine and biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 197, September 1979

This bibliography lists 193 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in August 1979