Research Center for Knowledge Communities

Colloquium

RCKC Colloquium is a series of seminars presented in English or Japanese. A report of latest research results is provided by the speaker, followed by a discussion with participants.

• The 140th RCKC Colloquium "Information / Library Sciences and Digital Humanities - Cooperation Scenarios in the Age of digital Transformation" by Heike Neuroth The 140th RCKC Colloquium "Information / Library Sciences and Digital Humanities - Cooperation Scenarios in the Age of digital Transformation"
  Heike Neuroth (Senior Professor (W3) , University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam)
  Tuesday February 21st, 2017, 13:45-15:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 139th RCKC Colloquium "A Study on the Factors Affecting the Satisfaction of Collaborative Digital Reference Service Users：Focusing on users of public libraries in Korea." by Hwang Myun The 139th RCKC Colloquium "A Study on the Factors Affecting the Satisfaction of Collaborative Digital Reference Service Users：Focusing on users of public libraries in Korea."
  Hwang Myun (Visiting Foreign Research Fellow, Research Center for Knowledge Communities)
  Monday January 30th, 2017, 15:00-16:30　Meeting room 7B310 on the 3rd floor of 7B bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 136th RCKC Colloquium "Data collection to determine the structure of table tennis game - New approach using Information Engineering -" by Assoc. Prof. Yukino Baba Data collection to determine the structure of table tennis game - New approach using Information Engineering -
  Assistant Prof. Sho Tamaki (Department of Sports and Health Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Meio University)
  Friday November 25th, 2016, 15:15-16:15　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 137th RCKC Colloquium "Some Perspectives in (Big) Social Data Exploration" by Dr. Sihem Amer-Yahia Some Perspectives in (Big) Social Data Exploration
  Dr. Sihem Amer-Yahia (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS))
  Friday, Octber 7th, 2016, 16:00-17:00　University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Campus, Seminar Room 119
  
• The 136th RCKC Colloquium "Human computation: how we can harness the power of human intelligence" by Assoc. Prof. Yukino Baba Human computation: how we can harness the power of human intelligence
  Junior Assistant Prof. Yukino Baba, Ph.D (Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)
  Monday September 26th, 2016, 11:00-12:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 135th RCKC Colloquium "Data engineering approaches for utilizing Linked Open Data" by Assoc. Prof. Toshiyuki Amagasa Data engineering approaches for utilizing Linked Open Data
  Assoc. Prof. Toshiyuki Amagasa, Ph.D (the University of Tsukuba)
  Friday July 22nd, 2016, 13:00-14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 134th RCKC Colloquium "Hearing Ability and Hearing Acuity" by Prof. Rumi Hiraga Hearing Ability and Hearing Acuity
  Rumi Hiraga (Professor, Division of Industrial Technology, Tsukuba University of Technology )
  Tuesday June 28th, 2016, 14:00-15:00　Meeting room 7B310 on the 3rd floor of 7B bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 133rd RCKC Colloquium "New Frontiers in International & Comparative Studies in Library & Information Science Research: A Focus on Services versus User Needs" by Dr. Dickson K.W. Chiu New Frontiers in International & Comparative Studies in Library & Information Science Research: A Focus on Services versus User Needs
  Dr. Dickson K.W. Chiu (the University of Hong Kong)
  Wednesday May 11st, 2016, 14:00-15:00 (including Q and A session)　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 132nd RCKC Colloquium "Human History Project" by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga Human History Project
  Ichiro Fujinaga (Associate Professor, Music Technology Area at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University)
  Thursday, March 17th, 2016, 13:00-14:00 Seminar / 14:00-15:00 Discussion　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 131st RCKC Colloquium "Towards New Modes of Publishing and Information-Sharing among Researchers at Pitt and Internationally" by Timothy S. Deliyannides Towards New Modes of Publishing and Information-Sharing among Researchers at Pitt and Internationally
  Timothy S. Deliyannides (Director of Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, Head of Information Technology, Univerisity of Pittsburgh Library)
  Thursday, March 1st, 2016, 14:30-16:30　Conference Room on 2nd Floor In Central Library, University of Tsukuba
  
• The 129th RCKC Colloquium by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga and Prof. Stephen Downie Part 1: Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis Project / Part 2: The Challenges of MIREX: Maximizing evaluation access within the bounds of copyright restrictions
  Ichiro Fujinaga (Associate Professor, Music Technology Area at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University) / Stephen Downie (Associate Dean for Research and a Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Tuesday, January 26th, 2016, 13:00-14:40　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 128th RCKC Colloquium "Temporal Information Searching Behavior and Strategies " by Assoc. Prof. Hideo Joho Temporal Information Searching Behavior and Strategies
  Hideo Joho(Ph.D.) (Associate Professor, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba)
  Friday, December 25th, 2015, 16:45-17:45　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 127th RCKC Colloquium "Facing the future: Creating a new curriculum for library and information science (LIS) " by Prof. Pfeffer Magnus The 127th RCKC Colloquium "Facing the future: Creating a new curriculum for library and information science (LIS) " by Prof. Pfeffer Magnus
  Prof. Pfeffer Magnus (Stuttgart Media University, Faculty of Information and Communication, School of Library and Information Science)
  Monday, November 30th, 2015, AM10:30-AM11:30　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 126th RCKC Colloquium "Human-Information Interaction: Learning from Bad User Interfaces" by Prof. Satoshi Nakamura Human-Information Interaction: Learning from Bad User Interfaces
  Prof. Satoshi Nakamura (Department of Frontier Media Science, School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University)
  Thursday, October 1st, 2015, 15:15-16:15　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 125th RCKC Colloquium "Development of Copyright in China and Its Impact on the Library" by Dr. Wei Jingzhu Development of Copyright in China and Its Impact on the Library
  Dr. Wei Jingzhu (Ph.D.) (School of Information Management (SIM), Sun Yat-sen University)
  Monday, August 3rd, 2015, 13:30-14:30　Meeting room 7B310 on the 3rd floor of 7B bldg. in Kasuga Area, University of Tsukuba
  
• The 124th RCKC Colloquium "Digital Library at NDL; Current, and 5/10 years after" by Dr. Takanori Kawashima Digital Library at NDL; Current, and 5/10 years after
  Dr. Takanori Kawashima (National Diet Library)
  Thursday, July 9th, 2015, 14:00-15:00　Conference Room on the 2nd Floor of Central Library in University of Tsukuba
  
• The 123rd RCKC Colloquium "Rhythms and the brain: Studies of neural dynamics of beat perception" by Dr. John R. Iversen Rhythms and the brain: Studies of neural dynamics of beat perception
  Dr. John R. Iversen (Ph.D.) (University of California, San Diego Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation)
  Monday, June 22nd, 2015, 13:30-14:30　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 122th RCKC Colloquium "XML information retrieval techniques and their adaptation to Web search" XML information retrieval techniques and their adaptation to Web search
  Atsushi Keyaki (Assistant Prof., Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Computer Science, Miyazaki-Lab., Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Monday, May 25th, 2015, 13:00-14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 121th RCKC Colloquium "On the Diversification of Information Retrieval Tasks and Measures" On the Diversification of Information Retrieval Tasks and Measures
  Tetsuya Sakai (Professor, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University)
  Friday, April 24th, 2015. 14:30-15:30　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 120th RCKC Colloquium (Mechanism Design for Crowdsourcing) Mechanism Design for Crowdsourcing
  Yuko Sakurai (Visiting Associate prof. Graduate Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University)
  Monday, February 23th, 2015. 13:00-14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 119th RCKC Colloquium (Daichi Namikawa, Motohiro Makiguchi, Masanori Yokoyama, Yuji Takano) The proposal of Animal Cloud
  Daichi Namikawa, Motohiro Makiguchi, Masanori Yokoyama (NTT Service Evolution Laboratories) Yuji Takano (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
  Friday, January 23th, 2015. 14:00-15:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 118th RCKC Colloquium "Search Result Diversification via Filling up Multiple Knapsacks" "Search Result Diversification via Filling up Multiple Knapsacks"
  Yu Haitao (Assistant Professor Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science University of Tsukuba)
  Friday, December 19th, 2014. 11:00-12:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 117th RCKC Colloquium "People, Information, Knowledge: Understanding Information Cultures" "People, Information, Knowledge: Understanding Information Cultures"
  Narayan Bhuva (Visiting Foreign Research Fellow at RCKC and Lecturer, University of Technology, Sydney)
  Tuesday, November 25th, 2014. 15:15-16:15　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 116th RCKC Colloquium "Exhibitions in Local Archives in Japan" "Exhibitions in Local Archives in Japan"
  Tetsuya Shirai (Professor, Research Center for Knowledge Communities)
  Wednesday, October 29th, 2014. 10:00-11:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 115th RCKC Colloquium "An Empirical Study on the Digital Resource Utilization Model and Literacy Evaluation of the Academic Users" "An Empirical Study on the Digital Resource Utilization Model and Literacy Evaluation of the Academic Users"
  Qingshan Zhou (Visiting Foreign Research Fellow at RCKC and Professor, Department of Information Management, Peking University)
  Monday, September 22th, 2014. 15:15-16:15　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 114th RCKC Colloquium "Studying Collective Memories and Collective Predictions by Large Scale Text Mining" "Studying Collective Memories and Collective Predictions by Large Scale Text Mining"
  Adam Jatowt (Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University)
  Friday, July 18th, 2014. 15:15-16:15　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 113th RCKC Colloquium "Lifelogging: Creating the Personal Digital Assistant" "Lifelogging: Creating the Personal Digital Assistant"
  Cathal Gurrin (Visiting Foreign Research Fellow at RCKC and Lecturer at Dublin City University, Ireland )
  Monday, June 30th, 2014. 15:15-16:15　Meeting room 7B310 on the 3rd floor of 7B bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 112th RCKC Colloquium "New Perspectives in Social Data Management" "New Perspectives in Social Data Management"
  Sihem Amer-Yahia (Directrice de Recherche Première Classe (DR1) at Centre National de Recherche scientifique (CNRS) Hosted at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) )
  Tuesday, May 20th, 2014. 13:30-14:30　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 111th RCKC Colloquium "Intelligence for humanoid robots : Language from human/robot's full body motions" "Intelligence for humanoid robots : Language from human/robot's full body motions"
  Wataru Takano (Lecturer, The University of Tokyo)
  Wednesday, April 20th, 2014. 14:00-15:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 110th RCKC Colloquium "Unlocking the Secrets of 3 Billion Pages: Introducing the HathiTrust Research Center" "Unlocking the Secrets of 3 Billion Pages: Introducing the HathiTrust Research Center"
  J. Stephen Downie (Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Thursday, February 13th, 2014. 13:00-14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 109th RCKC Colloquium "Metadata ontology for web-based information management in e-marketplaces" "Metadata ontology for web-based information management in e-marketplaces"
  Dickson Chiu (Lecturer, The University of Hong Kong)
  Tuesday, February 4th, 2014. 13:00-14:00　Meeting room 7B310 on the 3rd floor of 7B bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 108th RCKC Colloquium "Research on preservation and utilization of historical materials to create archives for research foundation of library and information profession" "Research on preservation and utilization of historical materials to create archives for research foundation of library and information profession"
  1.Yuko Yoshida, 2.Atsuyuki Hara (1.Professor, 2.Assistant Professor, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba)
  Friday, January 24th, 2014. 15:15-16:15　Lecture Room on the 1st floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 107th RCKC Colloquium "Open Data" and "Linked Open Data" "Open Data" and "Linked Open Data"
  Ikki Ohmukai (Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics)
  Wednesday, December 18th, 2013. 11:00-　Lecture Room on the 1st floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 106th RCKC Colloquium "Strategies for Model Oriented Information Organization" Strategies for Model Oriented Information Organization
  Robert B. Allen (Visiting Foreign Research Fellow at RCKC)
  Tuesday, December 17th, 2013. 14:00-15:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 105th RCKC Colloquium "Library and Information Science Education, Research, Libraries and Professionals in Pakistan: An Introduction" Library and Information Science Education, Research, Libraries and Professionals in Pakistan: An Introduction
  Kanwal Ameen (Visiting Foreign Research Fellow at RCKC and Professor at University of the Punjab, Pakistan)
  Thursday, November 21st, 2013. 13:00-14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• Summer International Colloquium (Dr. Ryan Shaw and Dr. Robert Allen) 1. Using Linked Library Data in Working Research Notes, 2. Model-Oriented Information Organization
  1. Dr. Ryan Shaw, 2. Dr. Robert Allen (1. Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2. Visiting Scholar, Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba)
  Wednesday, August 7th, 2013. 12:30～14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 103rd RCKC Colloquium "Knowledge management for team cooperation" Knowledge management for team cooperation
  Xu Yang (Visiting Foreign Research Fellow at RCKC and Assistant Professor at Peking University)
  Tuesday, July 30th, 2013. 15:15～16:15　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 102nd RCKC Colloquium "The iCLIPS Project: Searching Personal Information Archives" The iCLIPS Project: Searching Personal Information Archives
  Gareth J. F. Jones (Senior Lecturer, Dublin City University)
  Monday, June 17th, 2013 15:15～16:15　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 101st RCKC Colloquium Between technology and musical expression
  Chikashi Miyama (Part-time assistant professor at The Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln)
  Thursday, May 23rd, 2013, 13:00～14:00　Meeting room 7B310 on the 3rd floor of 7B bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 100th RCKC Colloquium Information Schools and their International Collaboration
  Shigeo Sugimoto (Director of the Research Center for Knowledge Communities)
  Friday, April 26th, 2013, 12:30～13:30　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 99th RCKC Colloquium Categorization, Description and Recognition of Environmental Sound Sources for the Use of Acoustic Surveillance
  Hiroaki Kojima (Senior researcher of the Smart Communication Research Group, Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))
  Tuesday, February 26th, 2013, 13:00～14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 98th RCKC Colloquium Learning Support at the University of Tsukuba Central Library - Activity Report on the Learning Square -
  Keisuke Fukui (Staff of the Division of Information Processing and Management, University of Tsukuba Library)
  Tuesday, January 29th, 2013, 13:00～14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 97th RCKC Colloquium Being and learning to be information professionals
  Sue Yeon Syn (Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science? Catholic University of America)
  Tuesday, December 18th, 2012, 13:00～14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 96th RCKC Colloquium Fostering Communities of Leadership: The Role of Student Associations in LIS Education
  Andrew B. Wertheimer (Visiting Foreign Research Fellow of the Research Center for Knowledge Communities / Associate Professor? University of Hawaii at Manoa)
  Tuesday, November 27th, 2012, 13:00～14:00　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  
• The 95th RCKC Colloquium Academic Library in Action
  Jing Liu (Librarian of the University of British Columbia)
  Thursday, October 30th, 2012, 15:15～16:15　Meeting room 7B310 on the 3rd floor of 7B bldg. in Kasuga Area
  
• The 94th RCKC Colloquium Does Cloud Sourcing Bring Miracle?
  Atsuyuki Morishima (Associate Professor, Research Center for Knowledge Communities)
  Friday, October 12th, 2012, 15:15～16:15　Meeting Room for Joint Research 1 on the 3rd floor of ULIS bldg. in Kasuga Area　
  

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