Dr. Takanori Hayashi, librarian and head of the Information Management Subsection, Research Planning and Partnership Division, received the “Best Paper Award 2017” at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Information and Knowledge in Kyoto on May 28, 2017.

Linked Open Data (LOD) has attracted much attention as a method for publishing data using Web technology. However, since many information resources on the Web are organized for human reading, they are not well structured for LOD. The original paper, entitled “Structure analysis and a schema definition method for creating Linked Open Data from complex information resources” shows and investigates the creation of LOD from complex information resources with different types of elements (in this case, the JIRCAS Research Highlights), achieving interoperability without any information loss. Furthermore, a proposed approach was examined, applying the appropriate LOD structure that compensates lack of information with links to other resources when using information resources designed for human reading. The award appreciates its practicality and suggestions for analyzing the structure and vocabulary based on the description of the information resource, thus making it possible to structure information efficiently to create LOD.