Yasuyuki Minamiyama

Dr. Yasuyuki Minamiyama is a project assistant professor in the Research Center for Open Science and Data Platforms at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. His area of expertise data curation where he has been involved in the analysis and formalization of data curation activities across fields. He is currently designing a generic data curation support system based on his research.
He has deep expertise as a data librarian, having previously worked at the National Institute of Polar Research, where he was involved in metadata creation in the upper atmosphere physics field. He also supports community activities as a key member of Japan's open science communities, such as the Japan Consortium for Open Access Repository (JPCOAR) and the Research Data Utilization Forum (RDUF). Internationally, he is active in a number of communities, such as the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR). He holds a Ph.D. in information science with a focus on knowledge engineering from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI.