Science.gov @ Five Years

Science.gov @ Five Years
InterLab '07
Los Alamos, New Mexico
October 1–3, 2007

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Slide 2: Science.gov is all of these things

We see three complementary approaches to improve information sharing and awareness

• USA.Gov for Science cross-agency portal
• Large scale collaboration between major science agencies
• Wealth of information located by term or topic
• Unique search capability that searches the deep Web
• Traditional search capability indexing over 1,800 sites
  

Slide 3: The Science.gov Alliance

17 organizations from 13 agencies

• Department of Agriculture
  National Agricultural Library
  United States Forest Service
• Department of Commerce
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  National Technical Information Service
• Department of Defense
  Defense Technical Information Center
• Department of Education
  National Library of Education
• Department of Energy
  Office of Scientific and Technical Information
• Department of Health and Human Services
  Food and Drug Administration
  National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine
• Department of Interior
  United Sates Geological Survey
  National Biological Information Infrastructure
• Environmental Protection Agency
  Office of Environmental Information
  Office of Research and Development
• Library of Congress
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  Scientific and Technical Information Program
• National Science Foundation
• United States Government Printing Office
  With additional support from the National Archives and Records Administration

Slide 4: Science.gov

 

Slide 5: Breaking News!

Website by committee actually works!

Why?

Slide 6: Significant events — a perfect storm

• USA.gov (formerly FirstGov)
• Two workshops on concept and infrastructure issues
• CENDI backbone of established relationships
• The ease of the technology
• Small amount of early seed money for cross-agency initiatives

Slide 7: Explore Selected Science Web Sites by Topic

Slide 8: Browse by topic

 

Slide 9: Featured Search, Special Collections, and Featured Web Sites

Slide 10: Search Results

 

Slide 11: Some features added since version 1.0

• Subscribe to weekly Alerts identifying newly added items
• Email results to yourself or a colleague
• Sort by date, author, title in addition to source
  
• Refine your original search
• Begin viewing results while more are returned
• Multiple algorithms for relevancy used
  

Slide 12: Search from Science.gov web site and Energy & Energy Conservation Sources

Slide 13: Search results from Science.gov

Slide 14: Surface Web and Deep Web—2005

• Size: Estimated to be 8+ billion (Google) to 45 billion (About.com) web pages
• Static, crawlable web pages
• Large amounts of unfiltered information
• Limited to what is easily found by search engines
• Size: Estimated to be 5 to 500 times larger (BrightPlanet)
• Dynamically generated content that lives inside databases
• High-quality, managed, subject-specific content
• Growing faster than surface web (BrightPlanet)

Slide 15: Agencies are responsible for their agency information

• NTIS developed the original catalog
• CENDI Secretariat now maintains the content catalog
• Agency content managers submit and edit their information via a form
• By Topic sites are indexed nightly by USGS
• Real time search of content in large databases

Slide 16: Content Guiding Principles

• Science.gov presents select, web-based government science information
• The focus is on subject rather than government organization
• The audience is the science aware citizen, including educators, students, professional
• researchers, and members of the general public with an interest in science and technology
• The sites are selected and cataloged with the user in mind

Slide 17: Science.gov Contributing Agencies

• USDA 16%
• DOC 10%
• DOD 3%
• DOE 24%
• DOI 10%
• ED 1%
• EPA 7%
• GPO 1%
• HHS 13%
• NASA 7%
• NSF 8%

* Based on number of URLs in Web site catalogue as of April 2006.
Note: DOE also contributes over 21 percent of the 50 million pages in Science.gov search.

Slide 18: U.S. invests approximately $8.5 billion in energy-related research and development each year

• OSTI collects, preserves, disseminates, and leverages DOE’s scientific and technical information resulting from this investment
• OSTI collaborates within DOE to develop and maintain an efficient and effective access and delivery system
• OSTI partners with other organizations to facilitate national and international cooperation and information exchange

Slide 19: OSTI Flyer

Slide 20: OSTI Partnerships include but are not limited to

• STIP
• Science.gov Alliance
• CENDI
• ETDE
• ICSTI
• WorldWideScience Alliance

Slide 21: WorldWideScience.org

Slide 22: Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org

Australia
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Japan
The Netherlands
New Zealand
South Africa
United Kingdom
United States

Slide 23: www.osti.gov