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OSTI's Revolution: "Findability" in Science and Technology

When it comes to science and technology development, OSTI people are writing one of the ... portals and search engines that find vast quantities of hard-to-find scientific and technological content ... Web-based, scholarly science and technology available. An astounding feat for such a small agency ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - David Wojick - 2008-04-01 08:03 - 0 comments

OSTI Makes "Non-Googleable" Science and Technology Searchable

The success of Google has been so profound that the word “Google” is now considered a verb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_(verb) “To Google” has come to mean to search t ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - Walt Warnick - 2010-07-08 22:00 - 1 comment

The Importance of Small Business Innovation Research Funding

Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs were established to provide funding to stimulate technological innovation in small businesses to meet federal agency research and ... win SBIR awards keep the rights to any technology developed and are encouraged to commercialize the ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - Walt Warnick - 2011-03-09 14:50 - 0 comments

A Roadmap to Geothermal Heat Pump Feasibility

Citations Database .) The Geothermal Heat Pump (GHP) is one of DOE’s high-impact technologies that are currently being researched by the Building Technologies Program within DOE’s Office of ... technologies and it is definitely a trip worth taking. Roadmap ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - Kathy Chambers - 2013-02-28 10:41 - 0 comments

OSTI Functions in Brief

information searchable from everywhere.     Through the deployment of information technology, OSTI  a ... ). ?          International representation/agreements ETDE (Energy Technology Data Exchange) - IEA agreement ... (~$5M annually).   Infrastructure (Physical, Technology, Administrative ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - Walt Warnick - 2009-02-09 09:05 - 0 comments

Fuel Cells to market?

potential environmental and economic benefits of the clean energy technologies.  Current results of an ... and about ways to commercialize the technology.  Read about the many technologies and products supported by DOE’s Fuel Cell Technologies Program in Pathways to Commercial Success .  Read more ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - Kathy Chambers - 2012-06-28 06:04 - 0 comments

Impact of Basic Research on Innovation

MP3 technologies illustrates the unexpected benefits of basic research. In 1965, a hand-sized storage ... the National Institute of Standards and Technology contributed to the breakthrough technologies of ... technologies, each derived from fundamental studies in physical science, mathematics, and engineering. ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - Anonymous - 2009-06-01 12:28 - 1 comment

The X-Portal Vision of the Future

comes to making the Web work for science and technology. In that spirit I want to describe a new kind of ... comprehensive coverage for a specific science or technology community, where X refers to that community. In ... community. Today's Web portals and search engines, while revolutionary, are technologically immature and far ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - David Wojick - 2009-10-05 12:20 - 0 comments

Pushing the Limits is Key to OSTI's Success

by Walt Warnick and Sol Lederman While federated search is a core technology that OSTI employs to tackle challenges of sharing knowledge, the technology isn't perfect.   OSTI aggressively uses federated search because it does what no other search technology can do--inexpensively making ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - Walt Warnick - 2008-10-09 09:36 - 0 comments

Federated Search: Closing in on the Speed Gap

Lederman Many casual users of federated search criticize the technology for ... federated search users is that speed is not an insurmountable issue because technology is closing in on the ... advance of technology is steadily speeding up federated search.Networks move search result metadata and ...

OSTIblog Frontpage Blog Post - Walt Warnick - 2010-04-02 07:07 - 0 comments