current trends of japanese lod -through lod challenge japan
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Current Trends of Japanese LOD -through LOD Challenge Japan
Kouji KozakiThe Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (I.S.I.R),
Osaka University, Japan
IASLOD 2012 -International Asian Summer School on Linked Data13-17 Aug. 2012, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
2012/08/16 1IASLOD 2012
Agenda Main topic
Linked Open Data Challenge 2011 Japan Current Trends of Activities on Linked Open Data
Outline Research Activities on Semantic Web Technology in
Japan A Summary of LOD Challenge 2011 Japan
Motivation Awards Winners Discussions – Trends of submitted works (The latest news on LOD in Japan)
Demo
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Research Activities on Semantic Web Technology in Japan
Semantic Web Committee 2001- It aims to survey trends on Semantic Web Technologies and
promote broad uses of them. It organizes annual (Japanese) Semantic Web Conferences
which show the latest trends of SW technologies every year. In 2011 and 2012, the theme of the conference focused on
LOD. Its members are mainly industrial people.
Special Interested Group on Semantic Web and Ontology (SIG-SWO) in JSAI (the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence) 2002-
It organizes domestic workshops 2 or 3 a year. (Total:27) The state of recent workshops:
Presentations: 7-10 Participants: 30-60 (Academic : Industrial = 7 : 3 )
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International Workshop on Semantic Web Foundations and Application Technologies (SWFAT), 12th March 2003, Nara, Japan
- The first international workshop on SW in Japan.
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ISWC 2004, 7-11Nov. 2004, Hioshima, Japan - The first international conference on SW in Japan.
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JIST 2012, 2-4 Dec. 2012, Nara, Japan - Submission due : 24 Aug. 2012. - It has a Special Track on Linked Datahttp://www.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/jist2012/
Venues of International Semantic Web Conferences
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ISWC ESWC ASWCSWWS@ California, USA
ISWC2002@ Sardinia, Italy
ISWC2003@ Sanibel Island,FL,USA Symposium@Osaka, WS@Nara
ISWC2004@ Hiroshima, Japan ESWS@ Heraklion, Greece
ISWC2005@ Galway, Ireland ESWC2005@ Heraklion, Greece
ISWC2006@ Athens, GA, USAESWC2006@
Budva,MontenegroASWC2006@Beijing,China
ISWC2007&ASWC2007@
Busan,Korea
ESWC2007@ Innsbruck,
Austria
ISWC2008@ Karlsruhe, Germany ESWC2008@ Tenerife, Spain ASWC2008@Bangkok, Thailand
ISWC2009@ Washington
D.C.Area,USAESWC2009@ Heraklion, Greece ASWC2009@Shanghai, China
ISWC2010@ Shanghai, China ESWC2010@ Heraklion, Greece
ISWC2011@ Bonn.Germany ESWC2011@ Heraklion, Greece JIST2011@Hangzhou, China
ISWC2012@ Boston, USA ESWC2012@ Heraklion, Greece JIST2012@Nara, Japan
ISWC2013@ Sydney, Australia
ISWC : International Semantic Web ConferenceESWC : European/Extended Semantic Web ConferenceASWC : Asian Semantic Web Conference → JIST
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Open = Tsunagaru (Connected / linked)
Linked Open Data Challenge Japan http://lod.sfc.keio.ac.jp/challenge2011/ http://lod.sfc.keio.ac.jp/challenge2012/
Backgrounds and Motivationsfor Linked Data Challenge Japan
2006- Linked (Open) Data Activity were started and becoming very active in
Western countries. e.g. DBPedia was presented at ISWC2007 and WWW2007
2009-2010 Trend repot about Linked Data Activity in overseas as by Semantic
Web Committee (of Japan). The committee members were aware of the need to catch
up the activity in Japan. 2011 Mar.
The first announcement about Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2011 and recruitment of Executive Committee members in (Japanese) Semantic Web Conference 2011.
2011 June The first Executive Committee Meeting.
2011 Oct. The submission site was opened!
2012 Mar. The awards ceremony for Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2011.2012/08/16 IASLOD 2012 9
Goal and Methods Goal
To promote Linked Open Data, that is, publishing open data and linking them across domains.
As the multiplier effect of them, to create new valuable technologies and services.
Methods – Sub goals Organizing a contest as an opportunity in which people who
work on LOD can present their activities and results. Designing of schema (Rules) for the LOD Challenge.
To provide technical information about LOD. Making and publishing materials about basic techniques of LOD.
Cultivating new communities of people from a variety of different fields to work on.
Organizing events/seminars named LOD Challenge Day.
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Linking Data, Linking People
Problems No project
We had to recruit committee members. All members are volunteers.
No Founding We had to find sponsors.
No Data We had no published open data participant can use.
Cf. Open Data Challenge in EU, Challenge.gov in US.
No (explicit) community We were very concerned about how many
submissions we could have. What we have…
High ambition that we have to do it NOW!2012/08/16 IASLOD 2012 11
Executive Committee of LOD Challenge Japan 2011
The chair T. Hagino / 萩野達也 (慶応義塾大学 )
The vice-chair S. Nagano / 長野伸一 ((株)東芝 )
Director of the Executive Office N. Otomori / 乙守信行 ((株)MetaMoJi)
Committee Members 飯塚京士 (日本電信電話(株) ) 生島高裕 ((株)数理先端技術研究所 ) 大沼宏行 (沖電気工業(株) ) 荻島創一 (東京医科歯科大学 ) F. Kato / 加藤文彦 (国立情報学研究所 ) 亀廼井千鶴子 ((株)富士通総研 ) 粂照宣 ((株)富士通研究所 ) K. Kozaki / 古崎晃司 (大阪大学 ) 小林巌生 ((有)スコレックス ) 齊藤孝広 ((株)富士通研究所 ) 斎藤博昭 (慶応義塾大学 ) 佐藤宏之 (NTTレゾナント(株) ) 澤村正樹 (NTTレゾナント(株) ) 渋谷健 ((株)ゼンリン ) 清水昇(株式会社サイバーエッヂ /慶應義塾大
学SFC研究所 )
鈴木孝幸 (神奈川工科大学 ) 其田譲治 ((株)博報堂プロダクツ ) 高橋陽一 (インディゴ株式会社 ) 高梨益樹 (富士通(株) ) 田崎裕二 (富士通(株) ) 年岡晃一 (中部大学 ) 豊田哲郎 ((独)理化学研究所 ) 中野圭 ((株)数理先端技術研究所 ) 細見格 (日本電気(株) ) 本多裕美 光石豊 ((株)富士通研究所 ) 森田大翼 (日本電信電話(株) ) 湯本正典 (東京大学 ) 和田康宏
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Aca-demicIndustrial
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Distribution of members
Sponsors/Partners/Supporters
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Data Providing Partners Media Partner
Supporters- Information Processing Society of Japan- The Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence- Semantic Web Committee- The Japan Electronics and Information
Technology Industries Association- Linked Data Study Group (Linkeddata.jp)
News on LOD in JapanDERI and Fujitsu
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http://semanticweb.com/deri-and-fujitsu-team-on-research-program_b30871
Data sets for LOD challenge
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CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like "sigh-knee") is the largest database for Japanese academic information of articles, Books & Journals.
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/en
KAKEN is the database of Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
http://kaken.nii.ac.jp/Riken is the largest research institute in Japan.They provide biological information onBioLOD (Biological Linked Open Databases).
http://biolod.org/
(by NII)
(by NII)
Data sets from Data Providing Partners
We encouraged data sets submitted by others
Linking three tracks
We encouraged linking between submissions. Developing application using submitted datasets. Developing dataset and application based on
submitted idea.
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Dataset track Idea track Application track
LOD Challenge Day We organized 4 events (3 in Tokyo, 1 in Osaka)
Half day events. Participants : 130 in the total (25-40 / event)
Contents Introducing talks on LOD. Short tutorials about basic technologies on LOD. Hans-on sessions to make LOD. World cafe (group discussion on how to use LOD)
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Tokyo
Osaka
Solutions No project
We had to recruit committee members. All members are volunteers.
No Founding We had to find sponsors.
No Data We had no published open data participant can use.
Cf. Open Data Challenge in EU, Challenge.gov in US.
No (explicit) community We were very concerned about how many
submissions we could have. What we have…
High ambition that we have to do NOW!2012/08/16 IASLOD 2012 18
34 volunteer members
7 sponsors
3 data providing partners & submitted datasets.
Numbers of Submissions
Total 73 submissions by 84 persons/groups Cf. Open Data Challenge 2011 in Europe
430 submissions from 24 countries = 20 / country
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Dataset track31
Idea track34
Application track18
Awards for each tracks Dataset Track Awards
The Best Prize: saveMLAK by F. Kato (NII)
2nd Prize: Location Site of Japanimation by Hoe-Hoe (cheese-factory.net)
Idea Track Awards The Best Prize: Linkable Textbook ( つながる教科書 )
by K. Nagumo 2nd Prize: Local Service LOD ( 地域サービス LOD)
by Y. Yamamoto 2nd Prize: LOD-based Politics (LOD な政治 )
by N. Akechi and S.Nishi
Application Track Awards The Best Prize: LinkData.jp
by S. Simoyama, Y. Yoshida and T. Toyoda (RIKEN) 2nd Prize: go2Museum ( ミュージアムへ行こう! )
by Y. Ueda 2012/08/16 IASLOD 2012 20
Dataset Track: The best Prize saveMLAK
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Information of rescue and support for the Museums, Libraries, Archives and Kominkans (MLAK) in Japan
saveMLAK is a website about the Museums (including art galleries, science centers, aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, etc.), Libraries, Archives and Kouminkans(community centers) (MLAK) in Japan stricken by 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
We are gathering the information on the damages of those facilities in the disaster area and publishing the requests for assistance from the victims.( http://savemlak.jp/ )
Dataset Track: 2nd Prize Location Site of Japanimation
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Contents LOD about Location Site of Japanese
animations, games, light-novels ..etc. Titles of each works and cities form the setting of
them are represented as LOD using DBpedia. http://cheese-factory.net/lod.html
Visualizations of location sites linked to Tokyo in this data set: 2168 locations
Awards for each tracks Dataset Track Awards
The Best Prize: saveMLAK by F. Kato (NII)
2nd Prize: Location Site of Japanimation by Hoe-Hoe (cheese-factory.net)
Idea Track Awards The Best Prize: Linkable Textbook ( つながる教科書 )
by K. Nagumo 2nd Prize: Local Service LOD ( 地域サービス LOD)
by Y. Yamamoto 2nd Prize: LOD-based Politics (LOD な政治 )
by N. Akechi and S.Nishi
Application Track Awards The Best Prize: LinkData.jp
by S. Simoyama, Y. Yoshida and T. Toyoda (RIKEN) 2nd Prize: go2Museum ( ミュージアムへ行こう! )
by Y. Ueda 2012/08/16 IASLOD 2012 23
Idea Track: The best Prize Linkable Textbook ( つながる教科書 )
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Plant
Technology
NewsHistory
Food
EventTransportation
Textbook which provides links with all related information based on geographical information.
Basic Idea: Learn as linked information.
Awards for each tracks Dataset Track Awards
The Best Prize: saveMLAK by F. Kato (NII)
2nd Prize: Location Site of Japanimation by Hoe-Hoe (cheese-factory.net)
Idea Track Awards The Best Prize: Linkable Textbook ( つながる教科書 )
by K. Nagumo 2nd Prize: Local Service LOD ( 地域サービス LOD)
by Y. Yamamoto 2nd Prize: LOD-based Politics (LOD な政治 )
by N. Akechi and S.Nishi
Application Track Awards The Best Prize: LinkData.jp
by S. Simoyama, Y. Yoshida and T. Toyoda (RIKEN) 2nd Prize: go2Museum ( ミュージアムへ行こう! )
by Y. Ueda 2012/08/16 IASLOD 2012 25
Application Track: The best Prize LinkData.jp
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A support site for publishing LOD. The users can convert Table format data into RDF and publish them.http://linkdata.org/
It is used for Hands-on sessions in LOD Challenge Days.- Several dataset are submitted
using this site (tool).
Application Track: The best Prizego2Museum! ( ミュージアムへ行こう! )
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Museum Search site based on LOD.3000+ museums are registered through some LODs such as DBpedia, LODAC, saveMLAK. http://goo.gl/owcOJ
Sponsor/Data Providing Partner Awards/Special Awards Sponsor Awards
goo Prize: Yokohama Art Spot by F. Matsumura BioLOD Prize: BRC mouse strain by H. Masuya Human Centric Prize (Fujitsu): Knowing how hard the going way is (行く道のしんどさを知る ) by N. Ashida et al.
Data Providing Partner Awards CiNii Prize(NII): Biomasspedia by Y. Komiyama
Special Awards World Cafe Prize: History-link (ヒストリンク ) Challenge Day Prize: SOCIA (Social Opinions and Concerns for Ideal Argumentation) / citispe@k Open Government Prize: Yokohama Art LOD / Yokohama Art Search Public LOD Prize: findwc (モバイルトイレナビ )/Park WC Information Mobile Prize: Blooming Camera (花咲かめら:フィールドでのLOD活用 ) Visualization Prize: DashSearch for SPARQL Media Innovation Prize: Historical Drama LOD (歴史ドラマLOD) Life Science Prize: MEO (Metagenome/Microbes Environment Ontology) Culture Prize: Traveling around Locales (登場地を巡る )
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Mobile Prize Blooming Camera
( 花咲かめら ) An Android application to query a plant from the LOD Cloud to fit
an environmental condition using sensors on smart phone, and overlay its grown form in the space using AR [Kawamura 2011].
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By T. Kawamura and A. Ohsuga
[Kawamura 2011] T. Kawamura and A. Ohsuga:Green-Thumb Camera: LOD Application for Field IT, SIG-SWO-A1103-04It will be presented in In-use track of ISWC2012 “Toward an ecosystem of LOD in the field: LOD content generation and its consuming service, Takahiro Kawamura”
Characteristics of Japanese LOD through entries to the Challenge
The “NOW” of Japan we could see through the datasets.
Japanese Cultures spreading through LOD. LOD for/by Local Governments/Residents Towards Japanese LOD Foundations
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※Parts of these slides are summary of the presentation by N. Otomori at the 27th SIG-SWO workshop (http://sigswo.org/A1201_program.html).
Dataset IdeaApplication
2118
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Media16%
Publish-ing, Li-brary, Educa-tion 14%
Life Sci-ence13%
Government12%
Geo-graphic Info.22%
Basic Tech-
nology 13%
Cross-domain10%
Distributions of entries
The “NOW” of Japan we can see through the datasets.
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Differences between LOD Challenge Japan and other LOD contests appears in differences of the datasets.
We can see which domains are advanced in LOD, which datasets are required now, etc.
It reflects the “NOW” of Japan every years. This is one of meaningful reason to continue the LOD
Challenge!
Medicine, Life sci-ence; 8
Subculture (Anima-tion); 5
Politics, SNS; 4
Local in-forma-tion; 3
Foundation; 1
The best Prize
saveMLAK Support Information for 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Distributions of entries for dataset track
The 2nd Prize Location Site of Japanimation
Japanese Cultures spreading through LOD.
In idea track, there are many entries related to Japanese Culture such as subculture, education, history, sightseeing etc. Basic idea: fundamental information (Geographic
Info., Person, etc.) + characteristic information of Japanese
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cul-ture; 8
other; 26
subcul-ture(anima-tion); 5
other; 16
Dataset trackIdea track
The 2nd Prize Location Site of Japanimation
The Best Prize
Linkable Textbook
Dataset track Idea track Application track
LOD for/by Local Governments/Residents
Datasets, Ideas and Applications which use Local information about such as museums, local governments etc. were submitted and got prizes.
Although Japanese does not provide open data in LOD, two local city government, Sabae and Yokohama, publish their local information as LOD and got prizes!
We hope other local and governments and the Japanese Government follow their LOD-Activities.
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Local Info.; 4
other; 21
Local Info.; 6
other; 12
Local Info.; 6
other; 28
The 2nd Prize
Let’s Go Museum! The 2nd Prize
Local Service LOD
News on LOD in JapanJapanese Public Open Data
2012.7. 4 IT Strategic Headquarters in Japan published “e-
government open data strategies” . Basic principles
① The governments themselves publish public data positively. ② Publish data in machine readable formats. ③ Promote to use for no matter commercial or not ④ Quickly start to open data form public ones. And the results
step by step.
2012. 7. 27 Open Data Promotion Consortium was established.
CKAN in Japanese was stated. http://data.linkedopendata.jp/
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Towards Japanese LOD Foundations Some of the submitted applications aim to provide
basic technologies independent of domains. Kinds of basic technologies which they provide.
Developing LOD (3) Convert Table data / bibTex to RDF.
Searching and Visualizing LOD (4) Finding link between resources in different LOD.
They could be foundations for Japanese LOD.
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Ba-sic Technology;
7other; 18
The Best Prize
Linkdata.jp
Demo The Best Prize: LinkData.jp
by S. Simoyama, Y. Yoshida and T. Toyoda (RIKEN) http://linkdata.org/
Visualization Prize: DashSearch for SPARQL by T. Goto (NII) http://www.ahirulab.com/DashSearchSparql/ (The latest version) http
://gilbert.lodac.nii.ac.jp/DashSearch/001/
Hozo:LOD Viewer by K. Kozaki and N. Kato (Osaka University) A prototype version for LOD support of Hozo-ontology
exploration tool (see. my presentation 15 Aug.). http://hozoviewer.ei.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/HozoWebXML/
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Summary What we did
Total 73 submissions by 84 persons/groups. There are many high quality submissions.
It was very successful! The participants could be a LOD community in
Japan. We could one of our purposes.
What we learn Linking people is very important for linking data.
Future works Linking between submissions. (There is a few example in
2011) Creating LOD communities in Local (not Tokyo) areas. Increasing participants from other domains (including general
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Future plans Future plans
Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2012
Committee member are working very actively! New track: Visualization track. New sponsors and data provide partners will be
confirmed. Now, we can use datasets and ideas submitted in
2011!
Planed events LOD Challenge Day in Tokyo and Nagoya. Open data Hackathon in Sabae. Joint event with JIST 2012, Nara.
LOD Challenge Asia? We need your help!
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Acknowledgements I am deeply grateful to Executive
Committee members of LOD Challenge Japan.
Thank you for your attentions!
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Linked Open Data Challenge Japan http://lod.sfc.keio.ac.jp/challenge2011/ http://lod.sfc.keio.ac.jp/challenge2012/