{"id":302,"date":"2014-10-22T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2014-10-27T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T08:27:17","slug":"toshihiro-ashino-small-and-feasible-data-for-the-big-data-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/22\/toshihiro-ashino-small-and-feasible-data-for-the-big-data-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshihiro Ashino: Small and Feasible Data for the Big Data Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the sixth\u00a0in the series of short statements from candidates in the forthcoming CODATA Elections. Toshihiro Ashino\u00a0is a new candidate seeking election to the CODATA Executive Committee, although he has been strongly involved in a number of\u00a0CODATA activities. \u00a0He is nominated by the Japanese CODATA National Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"img00375\"Academic and Research Experience<\/h2>\n

First, I am now a professor at\u00a0Toyo University and Chair of the General\u00a0Regional Studies Program, a member of the Centre\u00a0of Computational\u00a0Mechanics Research at\u00a0Toyo University and a member of theScience\u00a0Council of Japan subcommittee on CODATA.<\/p>\n

I have been\u00a0involved in research and development of materials databases and\u00a0materials data sharing since\u00a01985. I led the\u00a0materials data sharing\u00a0platform project from 2006 to 2007 in collaboration with NIMS\u00a0(National Institute for Materials Science, Japan) and AIST (National\u00a0Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan), who\u00a0are maintaining world famous, high-quality and comprehensive materials\u00a0databases, and continuously collaborating with them for dissemination\u00a0and enhancement of materials databases.<\/p>\n

In Japan, a new national research program which introduces information\u00a0technology into structural materials design have been started. I’m\u00a0participating in a materials integration subgroup which tackles integration\u00a0of materials databases, empirical rules and computational methods. To this subgroup, I\u00a0will contribute system design and materials data representation for\u00a0data exchange among software modules.<\/p>\n

My participation in\u00a0CODATA<\/h2>\n

I organized a session on\u00a0materials data at the\u00a0CODATA Conference in\u00a0Beijing, 2006. On the basis of this,\u00a0Professor Laura Bartolo and I proposed the CODATA Task Group for\u00a0Exchangeable Materials Data Representation to Support Scientific\u00a0Research and Education, which was\u00a0approved by the CODATA General Assembly after\u00a0the\u00a0Conference. I co-chaired this task group from 2006 to 2012, and during\u00a0this period, organized international workshops at New Delhi and Kiev, as well as\u00a0several sessions at CODATA conferences. I am now\u00a0participating in this task group and joint Interest Group with RDA (Research Data\u00a0Alliance) as a member from Japan.<\/p>\n

I have also assisted the CODATA Data Science Journal to start its service on J-Stage\u00a0as a Publication Board member and now also an Editorial Board member.<\/p>\n

For a bright future for\u00a0CODATA<\/h2>\n

Recently, materials informatics – as a new approach to improve new\u00a0materials development – is emerging and materials data sharing is\u00a0increasing in\u00a0importance. I am playing a leadership role in this field in\u00a0Japan. CODATA can play major role with RDA\u00a0and with\u00a0other national and\u00a0international organizations and I will try to reinforce these important\u00a0relationships and collaborations for\u00a0CODATA.<\/p>\n

Also, CODATA has helped promote\u00a0the availability of\u00a0fundamental data for the\u00a0science\/engineering\u00a0community for a\u00a0long time. Since huge measured data can be easily\u00a0obtained and many heterogeneous data items are linked each other on\u00a0the Web, it is becoming difficult to identify evaluated and reliable\u00a0data among them. All measured data should be confirmed in the context\u00a0of highly evaluated and feasible values, this reference data is small\u00a0but requires considerable investment\u00a0and maintenance by skilled experts. These tasks\u00a0require long\u00a0term experience and international recognition in order to provide\u00a0these fundamentals as\u00a0Linked Open Data. CODATA has both these attributes and can play an important role.\u00a0I\u00a0would like to try to establish the fundamentals by which CODATA can\u00a0ensure the\u00a0reliability of all measured data made available as\u00a0LOD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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