ACTIVITIES OF SOFTWARE PATENT INFORMATION CENTER (2) |
2. Compilation of Information for CSDB
(1) Outline of CSDB
CSDB consists of two databases: the database for search and
the database for literature reference.
The database for search contains the text information such
as CS Terms, bibliographies, free keywords, contents and indexes, full texts
of literature and their summaries.
The database for literature reference contains the image information
of all pages of the literature.
Searches will be performed in combination of an index search
by CS Terms, a free keyword search, and a full text search of bibliographies,
contents and indexes, summaries and primary literature.
(2) Outline of CS Terms
Like F Terms (File Forming Terms) developed for the retrieval
database of patent documents by the JPO, a CS Term is an index representing
some concept.
CS Terms are designed to enable
the retrieval of information difficult to search with the existing indexes
such as International Patent Classification, and a CS Term search is a tool
complementary to a keyword search and a text search.
CS Terms are comprised of 252 terms and are constructed with
common aspects selected at higher level from among many software-related
literature. In order to prevent a possible enormous expansion of number
of terms, they do not pick up terms on a technology peculiar to one field.
Expecting that CS Terms will become international standards,
the JPO has worked together with European Patent Office (EPO) and US Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO).
List of CS Terms
Major classification |
Number of Terms |
Hardware |
6 |
Computer architecture |
9 |
Software |
15 |
Data |
7 |
Computer-related theory |
10 |
Computer-related mathematics |
21 |
Computer-related methodology |
35 |
Information system |
78 |
Computer application fields |
62 |
Others |
9 |
Total |
252 |
(3) Including information on granted copyrights relating
to external disclosure of CSDB
To prepare for disclosure of CSDB planned by JPO from FY2002,
we are going to include information on copyrights granted to JPO for non-patent
literature accumulated since FY2002 and convert them into computer-readable
media
(4) Compilation of Information for CSDB
1) Collection of non-patent literature
Computer software manuals, business manuals, computer game
software manuals, books, technical magazinesCnon-technical magazines, treatisesCcompaniesf technical reports, Organizational
publications, dissertations for scientific societies and, if necessary,
their back numbers are collected for CSDB.
General computer software-related literature, business-related
literature and computer game software-related literature will be collected
for CSDB for the fiscal year 2002 as the previous fiscal year.
2) Analysis of collected literature
gThe chief staffh of PIC select literature necessary to
build CSDB among collected literature, and contracted outside analysts analyze
selected literature. Specifically,
analysts read them carefully, assign CS Terms according to CS Terms Analysis
Manual, pick up necessary free key words, and make their summaries. gThe chief
staffh of PIC check the results
of analyses.
However, dissertations for scientific societies are excluded
from analysis.
37,900 analyses are scheduled
for the fiscal year 2002 as the previous fiscal year.
3) Compilation of information
on computer-readable media
With regard to analyzed literature selected from collected
literature, CS Terms, free keywords, summaries, bibliography, contents and
indexes are compiled into text information on computer-readable media.
4) Preparation status of compilation
of information on computer-readable media
Year-on-year preparation status of compilation of information
on computer-readable media is shown on the following table and the accumulated
total at the end of the fiscal year 2002 (performance) has been almost 200,000
(planned value for 2003).
Preparation status of compilation of information
on computer-readable media
Type^Fiscal Year |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
Manuals |
2 |
4,602
|
4,513
|
3,211
|
3,911
|
4,362
|
4,383
|
Books |
305 |
208 |
387 |
1,689
|
989 |
538 |
517 |
Magazines |
4,513 |
18,758 |
18,656 |
19,260 |
19,764 |
23,584 |
27,937 |
Treatises |
1,336 |
11,370 |
12,133 |
11,910 |
11,420 |
8,218
|
6,338 |
Organizational publications |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
578 |
36 |
48 |
Companiesf Technical Reports |
1,319
|
2,562
|
2,212
|
1,830
|
1,238
|
1,162
|
1,277
|
Dissertations for scientific societies |
1 |
52 |
29 |
22 |
22 |
22 |
17 |
Total |
7,476
|
37,552 |
37,930 |
37,922 |
37,922 |
37,922 |
40,517 |
Note: A fiscal year starts in
April and ends in March of the following year.