Concierge: Personal Database Software for Managing Digital Research Resources

This article introduces a desktop application, named Concierge, for managing personal digital research resources. Using simple operations, it enables storage of various types of files and indexes them based on content descriptions. A key feature of the software is a high level of extensibility. By installing optional plug-ins, users can customize and extend the usability of the software based on their needs. In this paper, we also introduce a few optional plug-ins: literature management, electronic laboratory notebook, and XooNlps client plug-ins. XooNIps is a content management system developed to share digital research resources among neuroscience communities. It has been adopted as the standard database system in Japanese neuroinformatics projects. Concierge, therefore, offers comprehensive support from management of personal digital research resources to their sharing in open-access neuroinformatics databases such as XooNIps. This interaction between personal and open-access neuroinformatics databases is expected to enhance the dissemination of digital research resources. Concierge is developed as an open source project; Mac OS X and Windows XP versions have been released at the official site (http://concierge.sourceforge.jp)

Tag Cloud of Search Queries for Repository System

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"We propose that a new additional system to display tag cloud of search query of a contents for the repository system. The search queries can be collected from access logs of a HTTP server. After a access log from search engines is picked out, a search query and an accessed resource id is extracted from the log.Aoyama, Toshihiro (Suzuka National College of Technology, Japan)Suzuki, Yuta (Suzuka National College of Technology, Japan)Yamaji, Kazutsuna (National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Time Stamping Preprint and Electronic Journal Server Environment

summary:The exchange of preprints and journals plays an important role to communicate new research ideas and results in many academic fields. Distribution of preprints and journal articles by electronic file via the Internet has become a primary method in addition to paper publication. Electronic preprints and articles in the paperless era should be certified in terms of existence proof and tamper resistance because they are easily modified by their site administrator. We developed a secure preprint and electronic journal service environment that uses an electronic signature and timestamp technique

Next Generation Repositories: Invenio

An Overview of Invenio: •Flexible –Inveniois a framework for building large scale digital repositories: RDM, Media Archive, Institutional Repository, Search Engine, ILS, Brokers. •Scalable –Handles 100M records and petabytes of files and integrates with any storage system. •Powerful search –with the full capabilities of Elasticsearch such as geospatial queries. •Born for the web –REST APIs everywhere. •Data model agnostic –Natively based on JSON from storage to indexing. •Best of Open Source-Built on top of the best: Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Flask & PythonConsejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica - Concyte

Institutional Repository ecosystem in Japan, IRDB and JAIRO Cloud

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"Ecosystem of institutional repositories that we are promoting is made up from the two systems. IRDB (Institutional Repositories DataBase) provides integrated linking to external systems among more than 400 institutional repositories in Japan. Specifically, it works together with the National Diet Library’s Electronic Thesis and Dissertation archiving system. In order to identify the content, JaLC DOI, the Japan Link Center Digital Object Identifier is also provided for institutional repository original contents. JAIRO Cloud supplies equalization environment of institutional repository for the participant institutions. JAIRO Cloud is SaaS-type institutional repository Cloud service for Japanese academic institutions. The National Institute of Informatics developed a software of it and has provided it since April 2012. The number of the participants has reached to 192 as of January 2014. This is about 40% of all Japanese institutional repositories. We can take advantage of this large share and features of a cloud computing to deploy advanced functions which deliver intersystem links between institutional repositories and external systems.Maeda, Akira (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)Kato, Hiroshi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)Takahashi, Nanako (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)Yoshida, Yukinae (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)Ushirosako, Kumi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)Yamaji, Kazutsuna (National Institute of Informatics, Japan