Research Center for Knowledge Communities

The center conducts interdisciplinary research on knowledge community evolved by advanced information networks. Its mission focuses on reseach and development of information technology geared toward the formation, representation, organization, interoperability and evaluation of knowledge and information shared in the communities, as well as social engineering in the communities.

Due to the reorganization within the university, the activities of Research Center for Knowledge Communities were temporarily suspended on March 31, 2018.

Latest news

• SIGIR 2017: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2017.08.07)
• A joint work by Assoc. Prof. Hideo Joho and Prof. Mark Sanderson at RMIT University has been featured by Science in Public (5th July 2017). (2017.07.14)
• The 140th RCKC Colloquium "Information / Library Sciences and Digital Humanities - Cooperation Scenarios in the Age of digital Transformation" by Heike Neuroth (2017.02.21)
• The 139th RCKC Colloquium "A Study on the Factors Affecting the Satisfaction of Collaborative Digital Reference Service Users：Focusing on users of public libraries in Korea." by Hwang Myun (2017.01.30)
• The 136th RCKC Colloquium "Data collection to determine the structure of table tennis game - New approach using Information Engineering -" by Assoc. Prof. Yukino Baba (2016.11.25)
• The 137th RCKC Colloquium "Some Perspectives in (Big) Social Data Exploration" by Dr. Sihem Amer-Yahia (2016.10.07)
• The 136th RCKC Colloquium "Human computation: how we can harness the power of human intelligence" by Assoc. Prof. Yukino Baba (2016.09.26)
• The 135th RCKC Colloquium "Data engineering approaches for utilizing Linked Open Data" by Assoc. Prof. Toshiyuki Amagasa (2016.07.22)
• The 134th RCKC Colloquium "Hearing Ability and Hearing Acuity" by Prof. Rumi Hiraga (2016.06.28)
• The 133rd RCKC Colloquium "New Frontiers in International & Comparative Studies in Library & Information Science Research: A Focus on Services versus User Needs" by Dr. Dickson K.W. Chiu (2016.05.11)
• The 132nd RCKC Colloquium "Human History Project" by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga (2016.03.17)
• The 131st RCKC Colloquium "Towards New Modes of Publishing and Information-Sharing among Researchers at Pitt and Internationally" by Timothy S. Deliyannides (2016.03.01)
• The 129th RCKC Colloquium by Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga and Prof. Stephen Downie (2016.01.26)
• The 128th RCKC Colloquium "Temporal Information Searching Behavior and Strategies " by Assoc. Prof. Hideo Joho (2015.12.25)
• The 127th RCKC Colloquium "Facing the future: Creating a new curriculum for library and information science (LIS) " by Prof. Pfeffer Magnus (2015.11.30)

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Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba
1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550 JAPAN
Phone +81-29-859-1524 FAX +81-29-859-1544