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History of IRI

Forum

former, Intellectual Service Initiative(ISI) era (-2003.06)

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)

IRI era (2003.07-)

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)
“Round-table that searches for directionality of MLA cooperation of Japan I” Oct. 19, 2009
Library of the Year 2009 Nov. 12, 2009
(at 11th Library Fair & Forum)
“Round-table that searches for directionality of MLA cooperation of Japan II” Jun. 24, 2010
Library of the Year 2010 Nov. 26, 2010
(at 12th Library Fair & Forum)
“Round-table that searches for directionality of MLA cooperation of Japan III” Nov. 30, 2010
Library of the Year 2011 Nov. 11, 2011
(at 13th Library Fair & Forum)
““Seminer for Building and Management of the Archive” Oct. 29, 2012
Library of the Year 2012 Nov. 20, 2012
(at 14th Library Fair & Forum)
‘The seminar considering of digital books in library’ in Tokyo Oct. 28, 2013
Library of the Year 2013 Oct. 29, 2013
(at 15th Library Fair & Forum)
‘The seminar considering of digital books in library’ in Iwate Nov. 4, 2013
Round-table concering the digital archive including e-books utilize by libraries etc. Apr. 17, 2014
The round table about New creative knowledge made with the digital society Jul. 12, 2014
The problem and solution of introduction of electronic books for the Public Library Nov. 1, 2014 (at 100th Library Convention) The introduce of the resource digitalize project of Vatican Library – having the person responsible of Vatican Library Nov. 4, 2014
Library of the Year 2014 Nov. 7, 2014
(at 16th Library Fair & Forum)
Library of the Year 2015 and Library of the Year 10th anniversary forum Nov. 12, 2015
(at 17th Library Fair & Forum)
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Promotion of Media art archive 2015, “Right’s whereabouts investigation of Meiji – wartime girl magazine project” Jul. 1, 2015 – Feb. 29, 2016
IRI seminar: Digitization and Copyright Processing of Rare Materials in Libraries Feb. 29, 2016

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)

Board Meeting, Committee of Planning and Operation

It is held as needed. Work Camp: 3times (April, 2002, Jan-Feb, 2003, July, 2003)

Working Group Activities

on working taskforces

LoY(Library of the Year Committee)(ja)
Working on “Library of the Year”(ja).

Ebook Library Promotion Council
Working on inheriting former ELPC activities as IRI activities.

Digital Archive Comittee
Working on Seminars and research of digital archives.

Planning and Publishing Committee
Working on performing a seminar, publishing and planning.

non-committee style

JPEG2000 RA
It established to be registration authority of JPEG2000, and informing and popularizing about JPEG2000.

abolished taskforces

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.

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.

Press Release and Publishing

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”