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This page was constructed by Tatsuo OTSU for personal use. It is not an official publication of NCUEE.

Table of contents

  • Directories and Search Engines
  • Book Search
  • Academic Associations
  • Data Source
  • Education Related Organizations
  • Statistical Metadata Description
  • XML related Tools and Info
  • Stat/Math Software
  • Programming
  • Others

  • Directories and Search Engines

    Google.com
    Searchdesk.com ( in Japanese) (An extensive directory for search engines and directries)
    Goo (Managed by NTT-X)
    Yahoo Japan

    Japan National Institute of Informatics
    Google exclusion finder (in Japanese) グーグル八分発見システム
    JNII DB service (NACSIS-IR) You need your budget registration.

    Wikipedia : The Free Encyclopedia

    Kotobank.jp (Encyclopedia and English-Japanese dictionary. Managed by Asahi news paper inc.)

    General Info

    Japan Post 7-zip codes 郵便番号検索

    情報公開・個人情報保護審査会

    Book Search

    National Diet Library 国立国会図書館
    Tokyo University Komaba Library
    Hokkaido University Library Index

    E-topia in Tokyo Gakugei University Library An extensive index to education related sources (in Japanese)

    Amazon.co.jp

    IEEE online bookshelf (for IEEE members)

    crossref.org

    Academic Journals

    project Euclid


    Academic Associations

    J-Stage An on-line article distribution system for Japanese academic organizations.
    (The English journal of the Behaviormetic Society of Japan Behaviormetrika is available.)
    ( The Japanese journal of the Behaviometric Society with short English abstracts Kodo Keiryogaku 『行動計量学』 is available.)

    The Behaviormetric Society of Japan 日本行動計量学会

    Japanese Classification Society 日本分類学会
    JGCS2005
    The Japanese Psychological Association 日本心理学会
    The Japan Association for Research on Testing 日本テスト学会
    The Psychometric Society (Psychometrika) and IMPS2004, IMPS2005
    American Statistical Association
    American Psychological Association

    IPSJ 情報処理学会
    IEEE Computer Society

    Conferences

    International Meeting of the Psychometric Society
    IMPS2007 in Tokyo

    IMPS2006
    IMPS2005

    Pacific Rim Objective measurement Symposium Hong Kong (PROMS HK) 2006

    Organizations (related to education and educational policies in Japan)

    NCUEE (The National Center for University Entrance Examinations, alias DNC) top page 大学入試センター 
    English version of the introduction booklet of NCUEE (PDF 16 pages)
    Heart system by NCUEE (Higher Education Articulation Support system) 大学受験者へのガイダンスシステム

    MEXT (Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science and Technology) 文部科学省
    学習指導要領 (Guidelines in elementary and secondary edcation)
    NIER, National Instutute for Educational Policy Research 国立教育政策研究所
    NIER 2002 Survey Report 平成14年高等学校教育課程実施状況調査

    中央教育審議会 議事録 1999/04/27 初等中等教育と高等教育との接続の改善に関する小委員会(第8回)議事録 : 意見発表者 丹羽健夫(河合塾進学教育本部長)、坂井貞雄(埼玉県伊那町立南中学校長)
    平成24年度全国学力・学習状況調査(国立教育政策研究所)

    Center for Research of Core Academic Competences (The Univ. of Tokyo) 21世紀COE 基礎学力研究開発センター(東京大学)
    (NICER) National Information Center for Educational Resources
    NPO 教育制度研究フォーラム

    情報公開・個人情報保護審査会

    Center for Research on Educational Testing (CRET) An NPO committed to

    On-line educational resources

    www.masteringphysics.com (Prentice Hall/Pearson)
    www.masteringchemsity.com (Prentice Hall/Pearson)

    Press and Academic Articles on Education

    Asahi.com (online version of Asahi newspaper, in Japanese)
    Harvard Educational Review
    Benesse Educational Research Institute Online (a Japanese education oriented press, in Japanese) ベネッセ教育総研

    University Entrance Examination Booklets

    Yomiuri Online 大学入試速報 国立大学2次試験問題、私立大学入試問題あり Gif and PDF(Image) files.
    東進ハイスクール(予備校) 大学入試問題 過去問データベース
    東進ハイスクール(予備校) 大学入試問題 過去問(asahi.comから)

    Data Source

    Data on Japan

    総務省統計局
    (English site) Statistics Bureau of Japan

    (財)統計情報研究開発センター sinfonica.or.jp
    (In Japanese A distributer of Japanese statistical data. This site has no relation with sinfonica.com .)
    The Institute for Research on Household Economics 財団法人 家計経済研究所

    Data Archives in Japan

    Social Science Japan (SSJ) data archive in Tokyo University
    Social Research Database on Questionnaires (Osaka University Faculty of Human Sciences) 質問紙法に基づく社会調査データベース
    RCISSS, Inst.of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi Univ.

    U.S. Longitudinal Data related to education

    ECLS (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study)
    NLS (National Longitudinal Surveys)

    NAEP

    NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) in National Center for Educational Statistics (US)

    Research on Testing

    IERI (a collaborative effort between the Research & Development Division at ETS and the IEA Data processing and Reesearch Center

    World Data

    World Bank /Data
    World Bank /Tokyo Office
    World Bank/Poverty in Africa
    UNESCO IBE Databaks
    WHO Research Tools, Library DB and Statistical Info

    EURYDICE/EURYBASE - The information database on eucation systems in Europe

    geohive.com by Johan van der Heyden
    ChildTrends.Org

    Directory for Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Online Phd Social Science Resources

    Regional Data

    EconData.net (US)
    DataPlace
    Sinfonica (sinfonica.or.jp) The distributer of Japanese Goverment Official Data (in Japanese)

    Social(?)/Population statistics

    Babyname Wizard com (Namevoyager is here.)

    Statistical Metadata Description

    CSA/SDA; Survey documentation and analysis (uc berkeley). CSA is a set of programs for the documentation and analysis of survey data. the web-based adaptation of these programs is being renamed sda - survey documentation and analysis. this set of programs is developed and maintained by the computer-assisted survey methods programs at the university of California, Berkeley.

    Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) A proposal for an XML document type definition for data documentation
    SDMX.org: Statsistical Data and Metadata eXchange
    Opendata Foundation
    GESIS German Social Science Infrastructure Services : DDITools
    US census 2010 in DDI3 metadata (example)
    Colectica: a company for survey research management using open data standards
    DDI-examples on Google code repository

    TheDataWeb: A collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control DataFerrett system (a WEB based system similar to NESSTAR explorer)

    International Association of Social Science Information Service & Technology (IASSIST)

    ODODO (a DDI editing tool) Demonstration ID is available

    Virtual Data Center (Data distribution system for Social Sciences )
    Harvard-MIT Virtual Data Center

    Dublin Core Matadata Initiative (DCMI)

    Open Archives Initiative
    OAI related pages in National Institute of Informatics (Japanese)

    NESSTAR: Networked Social Science Tools and Resorces (by Europian Data Archives)
    NESSTAR.com (Recently developed software)
    CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data Archives)

    DandD project in Keio university
    DandD project II

    The GovStat Project (University of North Carolina) Supporting human understanding of government statistics

    Data Mining Group (A Statistical Software Vendors Group) (PMML Predictive Model Markup Language) et al.

    XML for Analysis (Microsoft, Hyperion, & SAS )

    The Interchange Format for Bayesian Networks (in CMU/CS)

    Swivel (web based data visualization and sharing)

    Text search technology

    Apache Lucene project (Java based search engine)
    Hyper estraier by Mikio Hirabayashi (Suuported by IPA)
    RAST a full-text search system by Yuya Nishida (Supported by IPA)
    Business Search Technologies Corporation (Japan) The developer of WiSE text search engine (commercial)
    Mitsui Knowledge Industry Co.,LTD. The distributer of Google appliance server in Japan
    Panasonic Search/KB
    Microsoft Search Server Express (Free)
    Basis technology (Japan) A language technogoly oriented U.S. company
    Accela BizSearch (a Japanese company)
    (株)言語工学研究所
    Yahoo Japan (Full text search systems)

    Data and Documentation Formats in Education

    IMS (Instruction Management Systems) Question and Test Interoperability Specification
    qtitools
    EUCEN The European Assocication for University Lifelong Learning

    Advanced Learning Consortium A Japanese organization for standardizing electronic learning materials. There are English WEB pages.
    Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) About SCORM (sharable content object model)
    ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 : Standars for Information Tchonology for Learning, Education, and Training

    Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

    TEI home
    TEI introduction in Japanese by H.Shinozaki

    AI based Knowledge Representaion

    Cycorp : CEO D.Lenat
    Open Cyc (the open source version of Cyc)

    e-Learning related

    Japan e-Learning consourtium
    SATT (one commercial company of SUNDAI group ) An open source e-Learning system "Attain3" is available.
    Sakai project ( e-learing project for education in universities)

    Information Technology in Education

    EOE Foundation: Educational Object Economy (Java based educational software)
    PSLC Datashop in CMU. A data analysis service system for e-learning and related studies.

    XML Related Tools and Info

    Xerces-C (a XML parser library by Apache.org)
    Pathan: A Xpath handling library (by DecisionSoft)
    BerkeleyDB XML (by SleepyCat Software)

    Relaxer home by ASAMI Tomoharu
    Relax NG home
    Relax NG page by James Clark

    Saxon (a SAX based XSLT engine) home by Michael H. Kay

    C.M.Sperbrg-McQueen(W3C)'s Paper " Logic grammers and XML Scheme " and others

    www.zlatkovic.com: libxml,libxslt,icov for Windows

    dessci.com MathPlayer

    XML editing tools

    XMLspy.jp (XML development tool on Windows)
    xml.apache.org (XML open tools)
    O'Reilly's XML.com
    Relax NG free tools by MediaFusion (RelaxNG editor and validator) MediaFusion is a developer of XML native DB
    MediaFusion US (RelaxNG validator)

    XML and WEB technology

    Kanzaki.com (Mainly Japanese)
    JasperForge.org (JasperReports/iReport: a java based report generator)
    Commercial support for JasperReport in Japan (NRI openstandia.jp)

    DocBook

    www.docbook.org
    実用DocBook入門 (in linux.or.jp)
    DocBookで文書を書こう! (in infoseek.co.jp)

    Stat and Math Software

    Index and services for commercial products

    NetScience (A software dealer in Japan)

    Data Analysis Environment

    The R project for statistical computing A freely distributed s/splus-like system
    R project developer's site
    Rtools for Windows (unix like tools for compiling R packages on Windows)
    R-devel mail archives
    R-gui
    RjpWiki (Wiki on R-system in Japanese)
    Japanization and Internationalization of R-system by Eiji Nakama
    Statistical Informatics and Analysis ( by Tony Rossini in Washington University, including R related contents)
    R Graph Gallery

    R Coding Conventions by Hennik Bengtsson
    Google R style guide

    REvolution computing A commercially supported and parallelized R. Win64 (x86_64) version (enterprise version) is available (with fee). Win32/Mac 32 version (with MKL enhancement) is freely distributed.
    Biocep-R Statstical tools for distributed computation by Karim Chine (Cloud Era Ltd)
    Rserve (TCP/IP connections from various languages to R system)

    BUGS (Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling ) home (MRC Biostatistic Unit in Cambridge,UK)

    Infer.net by Microsoft Research A .net based library for estimation with variational Bayes methods.

    GGobi : interactive 3D dynamic scatter plot (GGobi is available on Unix/Linux and Windows)

    Weka 3: Machine Learning Software (Data Mining) in Java by I.H.Witten and E.Frank in University of Waikato
    SISA (Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis) Statistics on the WEB by Daan Uitenbroek
    MIM Web site (a software for graphical models with continuous and discrete variables i.e. conditional Gaussian model)

    Statmodel.com (Mplus by Muthén & Muthén) (commercial product)
    Statistical Solutions Inc. (commercial products for special purposes)
    Statistical Innovations (Latent GOLD: a sophisticated latent class analysis system)(Commercial product)
    Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Models (by Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, UC Berkeley)
    Cytel (StatXact, LogXact, and other products for medical statistics)

    Assessment Systems Corp Assessment related software (Commercial products)

    Tamaki Hattori's page in Tsukuba Univ. (in Japanese) That contains original IRT software (Windows binaries)

    Mondrian : a general purpose statistical visualization sysytem written in JAVA.
    GAUGUIN software (another visualization system)

    Bewitched.com by Martin Wattenberg various sofisticated data visualization systems

    GIS Geographical Information Systems

    MANDARA (in Japanese) by Kenji TANI (Saitama Univ.)

    Computer Algebra

    Maxima: a free version of MACSYMA
    AXIOM: Currently it is free. NAG withdrew it in October 2001.
    PARI/GP
    Risa/Asir in Kobe Univ.
    Macaulay2 in University of Illinois
    Singular in University of Kaiserslautern
    Symbolic Net
    4ti2

    GMP(Gnu Multiple Precision library
    Multiple Precision Arithmetic on Windows (MPIR and MPFR) (Brian Gladman)

    OpenMath (an XML notation proposal for Mathematics)

    Chart and Graph

    The Official Site of PLUS-enhanced patch for GNUPLOT Japanese Enhancements by M.Yamaga
    (Japanese is available on MS-Windows.)
    Ptplot - Java Plotter from Berkeley Source codes are available. (Japanese labels are available.)
    PGPLOT (in CalTech) C and Fortran library for X11, PS and other devices.
    Graphing/Charting Data on Web Pages: JavaScript Solutions (sixrevisions.com)

    Processing (An visualization system on Java)

    Survey Data Processing

    CSPro: A Free Census and Survey Processing System on Windows (U.S. Census Bureau)

    Numerical Libraries

    Netlib NetLib original site. The largest archive of mathematical software.
    Lapack User's Guide in Netlib
    AMD's site It contains free BLAS/LAPACK/FFT libraries (ACML) that are highly optimized for AMD64 processors (opteron/Athlon64).
    ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Portal site
    GSL -- The Gnu Scientific Library
    GSL binaries for Linux/WIN in network-theory.co.uk
    Statlib of CMU (a very important site on statistical sciences)

    Mathematical (Special) Functions in C. (cephes) et al.
    WWW site by Alan Genz (Numerical Integration Software)
    MD Anderson Cancer Center Biomathematics FTP site (Univ. Texas) RANDLIB: in C and FORTRAN et al.
    de Boor's Fortran codes for Spline from "Practical Guide to Splines"
    Expokit: (matix expoential package for dense or sparse matrices by Roger B. Sidje) for Fortran and Matlab
    The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository Operations research oriented algorithms by Steven S. Skiena
    C++ numerical source code collection by John Burkardt

    Scythe Statistical Library (C++ based statistical templates. R-MCMCpack is based on this library.)

    JavaNumerics
    JScience (Numerical and Symbolic libraries for Java )

    Intel summary-statitstics library built on Intel MKL
    Intel MKL Link-line advisor (for compiling R or other programs with MKL)

    Mathematical Programming

    GLPK GNU Linear Programming Kit
    IBM cplex optimizer
    lp_solve


    Programming

    Programming Tools on Windows

    Archivers

    Easy Range An decompression and expansion utility for .lzh, .zip, .cab, .arj, tar.gz, tar.z, tar.bz2 files (in Japanese)
    7-zip A high compression archiver. It is Recommended in MinGW site.
    base64 encoding and decoding by John Walker
    Microsoft KB84129 FCIV (File Checksum Integrity Verifier in Japanese (SHA1 and MD5 chechsum on Windows)
    Microsoft RichCopy (a tool like rsync by Kenzo Tamaru)(Japanese page)

    Terminals

    TeraTerm Home A VT100 Terminal Emulator for Windows by T.Teranishi
    ttssh An SSH extension to Teraterm by Robert O'Callahan
    Putty, a terminal emulator, by Simon Tatham and his colleagues (utf-8 is available)
    PuTTYjp

    Computer Languages

    ActiveState.com Perl and TclTk binary for Windows

    MinGW (Minimal GNU for Windows) Gcc, g++ and g77 are available. They work on Microsoft's runtime library.
    bitWalk Co.Ltd. in Ibaraki Prefecture (A distributer of MinGW Programming Kit in Japan)
    Equation Solution (MinGW compiler binaries)

    GnuWin32 on sourceforge.net

    Objective Caml (a variant of ML in INRIA) (Concise descriptions and type inferences are possible.)
    Ocaml.jp (Ocaml info in Japanese) managed by ocaml-Nagoya
    CamlP31 a compiler for Caml parallel programs (INRIA)
    F# : a microsoft research version of ML on .net
    OCaml-R libraries that enable OCaml code to access R functionalities

    Scala-lang.org

    Microsoft: Services for UNIX (including NSF, gcc and others)
    InteropSystems UNIX Tools for Windows
    SFU toolwarehouse in IBS Japan

    Text Editors

    Meadow Intro (A multilingual Emacs on Windows) by M.Miyoshi (in Japanese)
    Meadow home
    The Organization for Multilingualization mainly Mule/GNU Emacs related software (funded by Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry of Japan)
    Unicode Enhancement for Mule/Meadow
    Emacs and XEmacs for Chinese-Japanese-Korean handling on SuSE Linux by M.Fabian

    xyzzy editor (High ability Emacs-like text edtior on Windows, Japanese) by KAMEI Tetsuya

    ESS(Emacs Speaks Statistics)+XEmacs for Windows by John Fox

    JHTc on Vector (Fujitsu Host Codes(JEF) to Shift_JIS transformation for WinPC)

    Anti Virus Software

    www.avast.com Free for personal non-commercial use

    Linux

    SSJV (SuSE Linux info in Japanese)
    SuSE Linux
    Ubuntu Japanese Team
    Ubuntu.com (a variant of Debian)

    CentOS (a RedHat-similar linux distribution)

    「OSSでLinuxサーバ構築」by anonymous author(s) CentOS5 設定方法のかなり詳しい説明

    Software on Linux

    GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
    Softek support page for PGI compiler (for AMD64) (Japanese)
    Intel Compilers and others on Linux (Free for Non-Commnercial)

    Virtualization

    KVM on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
    vmware (Japan site)

    Fortran Compilers

    Links to Fortran Compilers in www.komoto.org

    Version Control

    subversion.tigris.org
    TortoisesSVN.net A windows client for Subversion

    TeX and Drawing Figures

    Japanese TeX on Windows (W32TeX)
    Small LaTeX Lab by T. Yoshinaga (in Japanese, LaTeXの使い方)
    WinFIG (A shareware for drawing. Compatible with xfig files.) by Andreas Schmidt
    TeX introduction by Y.Otomo in Japanese

    Poster Printing

    Cybig.net (公費可)

    Character Coding

    Web pages by M.Moriyama (about Keybords and Character coding, in Japanese)

    Adobe Acrobat

    Adobe Soustions Network
    Adobe Solutions Network (Acrobat SDK)

    Programming and Database

    Nikkei BP ITpro HTML/CSS Reference (in Japanese) (You need registration.)

    C++ related sites
    Stroustrup's C++ page
    Boost.org (peer-reviewed C++ source libraries)
    C++ Reference
    Standard Template Library プログラミング on the Web (in Japanese) (Online version of an out-of-print STL book)

    Prolog sites

    More Tcl/Tk (もっとTcl/Tk) A comprehensive introduction to Tcl/Tk in Japanese by Imai,S.

    Erlang
    Trapexit.org (Erlang community)

    Apache CouchDB
    A introduction to CouchDB in Japanese (IBM developerworks Japan)
    JSON (text-based data exchange format)
    Google code blog. Chris Anderson's talk

    Data Warehousing and OLAP (A research oriented bibliography) by Daniel Lemire (Toront Univ.)
    Berkeley DB (in ORACLE's site)
    SQLite : a public domain database (embedded type)

    MySQL.com
    SoftAgency (MySQL Japanese agent)
    Japan PostgreSQL users group
    PostgreSQL Home

    Jasper Server Japanese Group Jasper server is a open source BI system
    JasperForge.org
    Eclipse Project BIRT (Bussiness Intelligence and Reporting Tools)

    unixODBC.org (Open DataBase Connectivity on *N*X's )
    iODBC.org (another ODBC module on *N*X's)

    Business Intelligence Tools (Commercial)

    PHP

    PHP.net
    Asial (A dealer of JpGraph in Japan)
    JpGraph home

    Java related

    A Java introduction in Japanese by Hirokazu Tanaka 田中宏和氏によるJava入門
    Groovy : a script language on Java VM

    Scala

    Scala (A programming language with type inference on Java VM)

    Natural Language Processing

    TreeTagger (for European Languages)
    ChaSen (For Japanese)

    System construction strategy

    業務・システム最適化計画策定指針 (各府省情報化統括責任者(CIO)連絡会事務局, Feb. 2004)

    Others

    Computer Based Testing and Test organizations

    Links to related sites.
    Moodle : a open-source e-Learning system
    List of open source LMSs in NIME (in Japanese)

    On Test Starndard

    Links to Test Standard related sites

    Intelligence and 'The Bell Curve' problem

    Links to related sites.

    Statistical Theory

    statistical theory related sites

    History and Education

    History and Education

    Data recovery from broken HDDs and other media

    DRAJ 日本データ復旧協会
    株式会社データ復旧センター www.drivedata.jp