National-wide Repository Network- Vision and Practice Prof. Hideaki Takeda, Dr. Eng.,National Institute of Informatics (NII)
takeda@nii.ac.jp

Repository NetworkWhat?

Network of Researchers
Network of Systems
Network of IR Managers

Repository NetworkWhat?
• Network of Researchers– Mobility of researchers– Collaboration among researchers• Network of Systems– Data-level interoperability– System-level interoperability– Policy/statistics-level interoperability• Network of IR Managers– Mobility of IR managers– Collaboration among IR managers

Why National-wide network in Japan?
• Language– Language of contents• Over 80% of contents are written in Japanese– J:753,978, E:158,708– Language of IR managers• Area of Mobility– Researchers/IR Managers• BudgetGrowth of Institutional Repositories in Japan
No. of IR

No. of Contents
1,400,000

250

232
1,200,000

211

1,000,000

177

144

800,000

290,325200

251,744150
209,833
552,909

Number of IRs
National Univ.
Public Univ.
Private Univ.
Others
Total

80
2487
41232

Types of Contents
Journal articles
ca. 290,000
Department Bulletinca. 550,000
PhD. Thesis
ca. 70,000
Othersca. 390,000
Total
ca. 1,300,000（March 31, 2012）
Journal Article（学術雑誌論文）

600,000

482,296102100170,090

Departmental Bulletin Paper（紀要論文）
Thesis or Dissertation（学位論文）
Conference Paper（会議発表論文）

384,449

Presentation（会議発表用資料）

70,176400,000

Book（図書）52,640234,37548
200,000

146,27750

44,25249,536Preprint（プレプリント）
Learning Material（教材）00
2008年3月

Research Paper（研究報告書）
Article（一般雑誌論文）

33,862

26,095

2007年3月

Technical Report（テクニカルレポート）

2009年3月

2010年3月

2011年3月

2012年3月

Data or Dataset（データ・データベース）
Software（ソフトウェア）
Others（その他）
機関リポジトリ数

5

Repository NetworkHow?
• Network of Researchers– Aggregation of contents -> JAIRO– Interoperability of Researchers-> Researcher Name Resolver• Network of Systems– Cloud Service -> JAIRO Cloud– Policy-level interoperability -> SPCJ
– Statistics-level interoperability -> ROAT

• Network of IR managers -> DRF

Repository NetworkWhat?

Network of Researchers
Network of Systems
Network of IR Managers

Researcher Name Resolver (RNS)- Switching Board for Researcher’s ID -University Directories

Researcher Name Resolver (RNR)• Identity service of researchers in Japan– Basic information of researchers with unique ID– links to researcher’s web resources• Basic Idea
– Extend and use Kaken ID (given to researchers by MEXT)– Manual and Automatic mapping to ID systems in other services
http://rns.nii.ac.jp/nr/1000010295694

Researcher ID (consistent with Kaken ID)
Researcher name(Kanji, Katakana, English character)Researcher basic information
Direct links to the services outside

Search query formatted URL links
to the services outside
KAKENHI project research fields

KAKENHI project keywords
198,861 researchers (27, Apr,2012).

URI for this page

Name Disambiguation Approach for
Institutional Repositories in Japan• Problem: How to coordinate local ID (institutional ID) with
global ID?
– Some IRs contain global ID as author ID– Some IRs contain local ID as author ID

Author Identities in JapanName Disambiguation Framework forFederated Search Portal JAIRO• This project aims at identifying authors in the federated searchportal for Institutional Repositories in Japan which we call JAIRO(Japanese Institutional Repository Online).

Repository NetworkWhat?

Network of Researchers
Network of Systems
Network of IR Managers

JAIRO Cloud The National Institute of Informatics (NII) has launched JAIRO Cloud
service, from April 2012, to promote dissemination of research andeducational outcomes and facilitate open access in Japanese
universities and research institutions.
 JAIRO Cloud provides a shared instance of institutional repositorysystem to academic institutions. The system is implemented based on
WEKO, a repository software developed by NII.

Number of institutions applied

69

A Univ.

(as of May 2012)ＮＩＩ
B Institution

C Univ.

NII offers
HW/SW support
13

Service Architecture

CiNii
USER

access
JAIRO

Univ.

A Univ.
IR

B Inst.
IR

C Univ.
IR

WEKO

WEKO

WEKO

NetCommons
2

NetCommons
2

NetCommons2

GuestOS

GuestOS

GuestOS Deposit ofcontents
 UI Management

 SW management
・ Initial setting・ Update etc.
NII

 OS management
 SW management

Host OS NW management
HW & Network

COAR General Assembly 2012 in Sweden

SCPJ project(Societies Copyright Policies in Japan)• Outline– Investigate Japanese scholarly societies’ open accesspolicies and publicize this information through SCPJ
(Societies Copyright Policies in Japan) database.
– http://scpj.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/• Two Features of SCPJ database– The only database that covers OA policies of almost
all Japanese academic societies (about 1,800)– No policy is a policy: to regard responses of “underconsideration” or “No response” as one of thepolicies
SAITO Mika, HIRATA Kan, MORI Ichiro, HOSOKAWA Maki, TSUKUI Yuko, NAKAYAMA Takahiro.
"New SCPJ: Let's develop an open access policy database together!" DRF International
Conference 2009, Poster Session, 3-4 December, 2009, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

SCPJ project(Societies Copyright Policies in Japan)• Color coding of OA policy in SCPJ databaseColor

OA policy

Num

Green

Author can archive both Pre-prints &Post-prints

44

BlueAuthor can archive only Post-prints

252

Yellow

Author can archive only Pre-prints

4

WhiteAuthor can not archive

157

GrayUnder consideration

1,379

ROAT : Repository Output Assessment Tool••••Shared online platform for assessing the impact(=downloads) of repositories
Standardized counting through various repository softwares
Metadata based integrated reporting
Serving 30 repositories currently

HTTP log files uploaded
from IRs
User interface for uploading, downloading
and maintenance
Bots database,maintained colabbolatively

Resolve/Merge/Sort
Metadata
ingestion

Filter a la COUNTER
Cut off bot’s accesses
Show the results of analysis vis á vi themetadata of articles

Stats summary

JAIRO

Output stats for each IRRepository NetworkWhat?

Network of Researchers
Network of Systems
Network of IR ManagersDRF 2011

Executive Board

Advisers
Planning andCoordinating WG

International
Relations WG

Technical Support
WG

127 members
Activities• 3 Trainings for beginner• 1 Training for senior• 1 Workshop• 1 International meeting• Poster presentation at Berlin 9• Dispatch of 11 instructors for
8 lecture meetings• 1 Technical workshop• MoU: DRF, RSP and UKCoRRDRF 2012

Executive Board

Advisers
Planning andCoordinating WG
Events andTraining WG

InternationalRelations WG

Technical Support
WG
Public Relations
WG

133 members(As of May, 2012)

DRF Activity Challenges: 2010 - 2012
1. Survey and Research to Enhance Content
2. Development of Institutional Repository Technical Infrastructure
3. Information Sharing, Staff training, Regional support
4. Promotion of International Cooperation

Summary• The Network Effect is working!
– Focusing on national-wide network sharpens it– Variety of supports prompts newcomers to join

• Network of contents should be more functional– more collaboration in ID (e.g., ORCID)– Collaboration with other data

• More expectations on network of IR managers