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Yasuhiro Murayama

Dr. Yasuhiro Murayama is a professor, Research and Development Laboratory, Kyoto Univesity Library at Kyoto University since August 2025. He was a formerly research executive director and exectutive researcher (part-time since August 2025) at NICT Knowledge Hub of NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan), recently working on Open Science and research data sharing works, with background of atmospheric science and space physics. He is also a Member of Science Council of Japan, as well as a co-chair of G7 Open Science Working Group (WG established by G7 Science Ministers' Meeting May 2016), Antarctic Observation Deliberation Committee at National Institute of Polar Research, and Board member of Japan Geoscience Union. Also, he served as a Visiting Professor at Research Institute of Sustainable Humanosphere of Kyoto University in 2013-2014, ex officio of ISC (Intl. Science Council)-World Data System (WDS) Scientific Committee in 2012-2021, member of Expert Panel of Open Science Promotion at Cabinet Office of Japan 2014-present, OECD/GSF-WDS Working Group of International Coordination of Data Infrastructures for Open Science (2016-2017), and High-Level Expert Group of European Open Science Cloud of European Commission (2015-2017). He was awarded by Japan's Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2007. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1993. (Japanese version) 村山泰啓 京都大学附属図書館研究開発室 教授、国立研究開発法人情報通信研究機構(NICT)NICTナレッジハブ上席研究員(短時間研究員として兼務)(現職)。G7科学大臣会合G7オープンサイエンスWG(共同議長)のほか、国立国会図書館科学技術情報整備審議会委員、国立極地研究所南極観測審議委員会委員、公益社団法人日本地球惑星科学連合理事を務める。1999-2006年は北極域アラスカ大気環境観測日米共同研究計画の日本側リーダーを務めた。NICTナレッジハブ研究統括・ナレッジハブ長、日本学術会議連携会員、 内閣府「国際動向を踏まえたオープンサイエンスの推進に関する検討会」委員、欧州委員会「欧州オープンサイエンスクラウド高級専門パネル」非欧州オブザーバ委員、京都大学生存圏研究所客員教授、ISC(国際学術会議)-WDS (World Data System)国際科学委員会ex officio委員などを歴任。文部科学大臣表彰科学技術賞受賞(2007年)。京都大学工学博士(1993年)。

Community of Practice
Stage: CoP Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Earth, Space and Environmental science (ESES) community is focused on improving data and software management and sharing practices that result in our researchers having access to community informa...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
The scope of the WG covers data sources from research and scholarly communication. Within this domain obstacles for wider application of brokering techniques are: Multiple service protocols for data ...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Curtis Sharma
This Complex Citation Implementation Interest Group is focused on implementing the recommendations developed by the initial Complex Citation Working Group. This interest group includes a broad number ...
Working Group
Stage: WG Wrapping up
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
This working group aims to improve collaboration and coordination between repository and publisher workflows as they pertain to- and rely upon the data publication process. The group proposes to refin...
Maintenance Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The Data Citation WG maintains the RDA Recommendation for Precise, Actionable Reference to Dynamic Data: Rauber, A., Parsons, M., & RDA Data Citation WG. (2025). Precise, Actionable Reference to D...
Working Group
Stage: WG Maintaining Deliverables
TAB Liaison: Louise Bezuidenhout
Webinar – Tools & Resources for Data Usage Metrics – 21 April 2022   Research data is increasingly recognized as an important output of scholarly research, however, there are not yet...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Mingfang Wu
The Earth, space (planetary), and environmental science communities are developing, through multiple international efforts, both general and domain-specific leading practices for data, software, a...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
Secretariat Liaison: Bridget Walker
TAB Liaison: Martina Stockhause
The evolution of the evaluation of research from being mostly bibliographic index-based is now recognized to be indispensable to enable Open Science. In the same way that Open Science promotes the ope...
Interest Group
Stage: IG Established
TAB Liaison: Rossella Aversa
The Data Fabric IG (DFIG) identified that working with data in the many scientific labs and most probably also in other areas such as industry and governance is highly inefficient and too costly. Exce...
Coordination Group
The RDA Funders Forum, initiated around the launch of RDA in 2013, is a group of funding organisations / representatives with an interest in research data and related data policies. The Funders Forum,...