IRI
Intellectual Resource Initiative
http://www.iri-net.org/
1st Forum: "Culture Information Resource and How Intelligent Service Should Be" May 17, 2001 (Thurs)
2nd Forum: "Intellectual Information Resource and Contents" Sept. 27, 2001 (Thursday)
3rd forum: "The Use of Digital Information and Right" Nov. 15, 2001 (Thursday)
4th Forum: "Japan Reform by Intellectual Information Resource(1): Problem Arrangement" June 26, 2002 (Thurs)
5th Forum: "Japan Reform by Intellectual Information Resource: Strategy about Political and Financial Issues" Oct. 18, 2002 (Fri)
6th Forum: "Can City in 21st Century Create Intelligence? Japan Reform by Intellectual Information Resource" May 29, 2003 (Thurs)
1st Forum: "Designated Manager System and Libraries" Jul. 26, 2004
2nd Forum: "Can Libraries become the Public Digital Archives?" Nov. 25, 2004
(at 6th Library Fair & Forum)
3rd forum: "The survival class for librarians - reaction to 'budget reducing', 'outsourcing' and 'designated manager system'" Nov. 30, 2005 - Dec. 2
(at 7th Library Fair & Forum)
4th Forum: "The survival class for Libraries and librarians" Nov. 20-22, 2006
(at 8th Library Fair & Forum, first holding of Library of the Year)
5th Forum: "The survival class for Libraries and librarians" Nov. 7-9, 2007
(at 9th Library Fair & Forum, holding of Library of the Year 2007)
6th Forum: planning of forum including "Library of the Year 2008" Nov. 26-28, 2008
(at 10th Library Fair & Forum)
Voluntary organization "Intellectual Service Initiative"(ISI), the former is inaugurated.(2001)
ISI is authorized to be changed to Incorporated Non Profit Organization "Intellectual Resource Initiative"(IRI). (Jul. 2003)
It is held as needed. Work Camp: 3times (April, 2002, Jan-Feb, 2003, July, 2003)
Library Consultancy(ja)
Working on the creation of operation guide line of Information Culture Facility (tentative plan)(PDF:112KB ja) in addition to works on an actual case. Now mainly working on "Library of the Year"(ja).
Policy Proposing
It established to propose policies, and lobbying about intellectual resources.
JPEG2000 RA
It established to be registration authority of JPEG2000, and informing and popularizing about JPEG2000.
Public Digital Archives
Interim report is released at the forum.
Idea of Art and Knowledge Center
We made the first idea and were discussion with people associated for the realization of the idea.
We provided introductory papers of our activities in the following magazines. "Digital Publishing and Its Periphery", "School of Library", "Contemporary Opinion" (Nihon Keizai simbun), "Information Management"