Fumihiro Kato
Vice President at Linked Open Data Initiative
Chiba Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolFumihiro Kato is a seasoned technology leader and researcher with 15 years’ experience building linked data platforms, scholarly discovery services, and enterprise data governance. As Vice President at Nomura he established a firm-wide data catalog and leads retail analytics and visualization efforts using Python, SAS, Power BI and Snowflake for marketing and cybersecurity. He has a strong research-to-production track record from the National Institute of Informatics and ROIS, where he designed a Scholarly Knowledge Graph architecture, contributed to national metadata schemas (JPCOAR) and led multiple linked open data and ontology projects for government and cultural data. An active open-source contributor, he helped internationalize DBpedia by adding Japanese-language extractors and maintaining DBpedia Japanese, demonstrating deep expertise in multilingual data extraction and semantic web technologies. He also directs the Linked Open Data Initiative in Japan, bridging academia, government and industry to advance open data practices. Trained at Keio University in media, governance and computer science, he combines academic rigor with practical engineering and cross‑stakeholder program management.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Media and Governance, Computer Science, Master of Media and Governance, Computer Science at Keio University
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (5)
data-extraction10
configuration-management10
scala10
internationalization9
mappings9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dbpedia/extraction-framework
Apr 2016 - May 2016
The software used to extract structured data from Wikipedia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 1 issue in 24 days
Contributions summary:Fumihiro primarily contributed to the configuration of various extractors within the DBpedia extraction framework. Their work involved adding language-specific configurations for multiple extractors, including HomepageExtractor, DisambiguationExtractor, TopicalConceptsExtractor, ImageExtractor, and DateTimeParser. These additions focused on adapting the framework to support the Japanese language, as demonstrated by the specific code changes targeting Japanese Wikipedia templates and data formats. This work demonstrates a focus on expanding the framework's internationalization capabilities.
pythonstructured-datastructuredwikipedia
fumi/dbpedia-japanese-usecases
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 51 commits, 51 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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