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Curriculum Vitae (Masao Takaku)

Workshop on Trip-report of Code4Lib 2010, and more in Tokyo (March 2010)

Name

Masao Takaku

Contact

E-mail: tmasao@acm.org

URL: http://masao.jpn.org/

Contact (office)

1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan

E-mail: TAKAKU.Masao@nims.go.jp

Tel: +81-29-859-2813

Fax: +81-29-859-2400

Research interests

Information retrieval, Digital library, Information behaviour, Scholarly communication, Special library

Education

1998-03

BSc in library and information science from University of Library and Information Science, Japan.

Graduate thesis: "Building an orienteering game for education (in Japanese)" (Built an interactive geographic system based on VRML and Java)

2000-03

MSc in Information Science from Graduate School of Information and Media Studies, University of Library and Information Science, Japan

Master thesis: "Construction of Information Retrieval System based on Z39.50 Protocol for Bibliographic Data (in Japanese)"

2004-09

PhD in Information Science from Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan

PhD dissertation: "A Study of Cooperative Information Service Systems: Applications to Terminological Systems and Information Retrieval Systems (in Japanese)"

Work

2008-09 -

Scientific Information Office, National Institute for Materials Science (Lead Engineer)

Developing an digital library system and researchers directory for the institute. Operation in a special library at NIMS.

(Keywords) Institutional repository, Fulltext search, Portal service for Materials Science

(Skills) eSciDoc, Fedora Commons, SOA, Java, JSP/JSF

2006-01 - 2008-08

Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center, Research Organization of Information and Systems (Post-doctoral researcher)

Constructing a researcher information server (building prototype systems for integrating information on researchers in Japan). Involved in development of KAKEN Database (Beta service) and Researcher Resolver (Alpha service)

(Keywords) information linkage, digital library, identification, combining bibliographics, researcher network, visualization

(Skills) Perl, Web API, XML, Ruby

2004-10 - 2005-12

National Institute of Informatics (Post-doctoral researcher)

One of organizers of NTCIR-5 WEB task. Building a Web test collection.

(Keywords) Web information retrieval, IR evaluation, search engine, test collection

(Skills) Perl, Ruby, GETA, Web API, trec_eval

Teaching

Keio University part-time lecturer

(2007; Faculty of Letters) IT Literacy Basics

Tsurumi University part-time lecturer

(2005; Department of Literature) IT Basic Literacy II (Internet) - WWW, HTML

(2005; Department of Literature) IT Basic Literacy III (Application) - Microsoft Excel

University of Library and Information Science Teaching Assistant (TA)

(2000; Department of Library and Information Science) Programming-Language-C I

(2000; Department of Library and Information Science) Programming-Language-C II

(2000; Department of Library and Information Science) IT Basic Literacy - HTML/PowerPoint/Excel/Photoshop

Other activities

saveMLAK (2011 - )

Project member of voluntary community and website on museums, libraries, archives and kominkans (community centers) (MLAK) in Japan stricken by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Code4Lib JAPAN (2010 - )

Core member of Japan chapter-like activity of Code4Lib community. Funded partially from Japanese Library Promotion Foundation (2010).

DRF Technology Working Group (2009 - )

Member of Technology support working group for the institutional repository community in Japan.

CRES joint research project (2007 - )

Member of the CRES project for understanding users' information behaviour and information needs on the Web.

(Skills) User studies, Browser log, Eye-tracking

Next-L project (2007 - )

A collaborator of the project to construct the next generation library system based on Open Source.

ULIS-DL metadata retrieval system (2002 - 2003)

Design and build a Web-based Metadata retrieval system by Namazu.

(Skills) C, Perl, WWW/CGI, HTML, Unix, SGML, Dublin Core

Tsukuba city IT (Student) special committee (2001 - 2002)

Member of the student committee for new IT services by Tsukuba city. Proposed building inter-library service systems and utilization of GIS systems.

LA Seminar (1998 - 2004)

Website management for presentation materials. Conversion into CD-ROM for distribution. Assist for PR/communications for the seminar.

(Skills) HTML, PDF, Image format conversions, Perl

Namazu Project (Open source full-text retrieval engine; committer) (1998 - 2000)

Tested features and added access-control feature.

(Skills) C, Perl, WWW/CGI, HTML, Unix

Building a Japan/MARC browsing system (1998 - 2001)

Building a web-based browsing system for Japanese national bibliographics Japan/MARC data including 1M-records from over 13 years.

(Skills) Japan/MARC, C, Perl, DBM, Magnetic tapes

Awards

The 10th Best Paper Award of Journal of Information and Knowledge (2011)

The paper entitled "Influence of Task Type and User Group on Web-based Information Seeking Behavior: Analysis of Eye Movement Data and Client-side Browsing Logs", co-authored with Yuka Egusa, Hitoshi Terai, Hitomi Saito, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando, published on Journal of Information and Knowledge Volume 20, Issue 3 got received the Best Paper Award. (details)

The Best Application Award at the 2nd CiNii Web API Contest (2010)

My application "Fuwatto CiNii Author Search" got received the Best Application Award. (details)

Recent publications

• Makiko Miwa, Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Noriko Kando : A method to capture information encountering embedded in exploratory Web searches. Information Research; vol.16; no.3; (2011-09)
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• Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando : Connecting Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis Of Web Search Process: Analysis Using Search Units . The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010); Taipei, Taiwan; pp.173-182; (2010-12)
  DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17187-1_16
• Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando : Using a Concept Map to Evaluate Exploratory Search. The 3rd Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2010); New Brunswick, NJ, USA; pp.175-184; (2010-08)
  DOI 10.1145/1840784.1840810
• Kei Kurakawa, Hideaki Takeda, Akiko Aizawa, Masao Takaku : Researcher Name Resolver: A Framework for Researcher Identification in Japan . The 5th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2010); Madrid, Spain; 4p. (2010-07)
  [URL]
• Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando : Link Depth: Measuring How Far Searchers Explore Web. The 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-43); Kauai, Hawaii; 8p. (2010-01)
  DOI 10.1109/HICSS.2010.257

A full list of publications are available at ./pub/.

Academic societies

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
• Information Processing Society of Japan
• Japan Society of Information and Knowledge (Board member, 2008- )
• Japan Society of Library and Information Science
• Database Society of Japan
• Information Science and Technology Association Japan (Council member, 2011- )

Activities on academic societies

• Administrative Board member (2008-): Japan Society of Information and Knowledge (JSIK)
• Organizing committee member for JSIK Forum (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)
• Organizing committee member for Annual Meeting of JSIK (2009, 2010)
• Council member of Information Science and Technology Association (2009-)
• Editorial Committee member (2009-): Journal of Information Science and Technology Association
• Editorial Committee member (2008-): IPSJ Transaction on Databases (TOD), Information Processing Society of Japan
• Steering Committee member (2007-): Special Interest Groups on Fundamental Informatics (FI), Information Processing Society of Japan
• The Fifth NTCIR Workshop Meeting Publication Co-Chair (2005)
  • Organizing committee member for The Fifth NTCIR Workshop Meeting. Publication co-chair and presentation area co-coordinator.

Research grants

• 2010-: An Author Identifier System Designed for Cooperating with Institutional Repositories and External Databases (Principal researcher) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Young Researcher B; No.22700253
• 2009-: Analysis of Effects of Paper media with the Web space Co-joint researcher (Principal investigator: Nobuyoshi Miyazaki); Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; (C); No.21500107
• 2009-: Study on User's Exploratory Information Seeking Behavior by using Access Log Analysis and Cognitive Methodologies Collaborative researcher (Principal researcher: Noriko Kando); Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; (C); No.21300096
• 2008-: Study on Construction of Cognitive Models for Information Seeking Behavior and Its Application Co-joint researcher (Principal investigator: Hitomi Saito); Joint Research Fund from National Institute of Informatics (CRES Project)
• 2006-2008: Study on Method of Accurate Classification from Large-scale WWW Data for Constructing Informtion Resources Co-joint researcher (Principal researcher: Keizo Oyama); Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; (C); No.18300037
• 2006-2008: Fundamental Technology for Linkage and Retrival of Exploding Information Collaborative researcher (Principal researcher: Jun Adachi) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Scientific Research on Priority Areas (New IT Infrastructure for the Information-explosion Era); No.18049069
• 2005-2007: Study on Distributed Terminological Systems for Utilizing and Reusing Web Sitemaps (Principal researcher) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Young Researcher B; No.17700130
• 2004-2005: Study on Information Utilization System for Heterogeneous Contents Collaborative researcher (Principal researcher: Jun Adachi) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; Scientific Research on Priority Areas (Information Studies for the Foundation of IT Evolution); No.13224087

Foreign language and other skills

Librarian certificate (Japan)

University of Library and Information Science (1998)

English

TOEIC score 915 (2011)

Computer skills

(Programming languages) C, Ruby, Perl, Unix shells([kb]sh, [t]csh), Java

(Platform) Admin. for various UNIX variants: Sun Solaris(2.6,7,8,9,10), Linux(Redhat,Turbolinux etc.), IBM AIX (4.3), SGI IRIX(5.x)

Japan Information-Technology Engineers Examination

Second Class certification (1996)

Junior System Administrator certification (1997)

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