Kei Kurakawa

My current research topic is gradually shifted to machine learning for scholarly database systems on the Web. In recent years, I worked on researcher identifier management system, the Researcher Name Resolver, which provides researcher identifiers for Japanese researchers. The identifiers are used to identify authors in digital libraries, such as institutional repositories for both publications and data. I was also a lead developer of KAKEN, a database of Grants-in Aid for Scientific Research in Japan. It characteristically provided researcher pages to list their achievements. Identifiers of scholarly digital objects and creators become the key to analyze structure of knowledge and research trends. I also dealt with a joint-project to invent a mapping of subject classifications between KAKEN and the Web of Science citation database.