FLICC Meeting, November 29, 2007Sharing Our Knowledge

Dr. Walter L. WarnickDirector

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Advancing Global Discovery

OSTI Mission:

To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D

findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people

Science Progresses as Science Progresses as Knowledge Is SharedKnowledge Is Shared

OSTI Corollary:

If the sharing of knowledge is accelerated, discovery is accelerated

Profound implications for all of us in the information business!

We can accelerate the sharing of knowledge …

But first we must dispel the misperception

that popular search engines are already doing the job

Much of Science is Non-Googleable

We in the information business need to recognize this gap between availability and need,

and seize the opportunity to …

Provide science information consumers with better tools

In fact, the vast majority of science information is in databases within the deep Web – or the non-Googleable Web – where popular search engines cannot go

Deep Web databases

Surface Web

Federated search drills down to the deep Web where scientific databases reside

We need systems, such as federated search, that probe the deep Web

Unlike the Google solution, federated search places no burden on the database owners

OSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap; our emerging solution is “federated” search

50 million pages of federal science information

Key DOE databases

Our most recent federated search engine is WorldWideScience.org – the global science gateway

In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, Under Secretary for Science, and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library signed a Statement of Intent to partner in the development of a searchable global science gateway.

International partnership kicks off global science gateway

WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007 and now searches 24 portals from 17 countries of every inhabited continent

WorldWideScience.org allows the users to search multiple data sources around the globe from a single query search box

Enables access to prominent as well as smaller, less well-knownsources of highly valuable science

A federation of the leading science portals sponsored by the governments of 17 countries

A quantity of science searched comparable to that

searchable via Google, with the bulk of the science being non-Googleable

A breakthrough in content enabled by break-through technology

 

What Is WorldWideScience.org?

Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org

United States

Canada

Denmark Germany The Netherlands

United Kingdom

France

Brazil

Japan

Australia

Spain

Argentina Chile Colombia

New Zealand

Portugal South Africa

Current WorldWideScience.org Sources

African Journals Online (South Africa) Article@INIST (France) Australian Antarctic Data Centre Canada Institute for Scientific and

Technical Information CSIR Research Space (South Africa) Defence Research and Development

Canada (Canada) DEFF Global E Prints (Denmark) DEFF Research Database (Denmark) Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC)

(United Kingdom) J-EAST (Japan)

J-STAGE (Japan) J-STORE (Japan)Journal@rchive (Japan) NARCIS (Netherlands) Science.gov (United States) Scientific Electronic Library Online

(Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Spain)

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961 (New Zealand)

UK PubMed Central (United Kingdom) Vascoda (Germany)

LIVE DEMO

The stage is set for the future

We are ready to scale up our efforts in metasearch, or federated search.

Simply put, we intend to make more science accessible to more people

than anyone has done before.