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Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission
ARPA-E
June 24, 2010

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&ampD Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Innovative Web Resources Can
    Advance the DOE R&D Mission

    ARPA-E
    June 24, 2010

    Walter L. Warnick, Ph.D.
    Director
    Office of Scientific & Technical Information
    Office of Science

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    OSTI Mission


    To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the public


    "If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." – Isaac Newton 1676


    Premise: Science advances only if knowledge is shared


    Corollary: Accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge accelerates the advancement of science

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    To Accomplish Our Mission We Take Advantage of Technology


    • We’re in an era of transformational technology
    • We’ve been constantly challenged to adapt & adopt
    • We’ve been early adopters
    • We’ve found it helpful to advance web technologies in niche areas important to our mission

    There's no roadmap!

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Focus of DOE STI Program


    Ensuring global access to DOE research results; bringing the world’s research to DOE

    • We maintain DOE STI for long-term use and make it freely & easily searchable online

    • We ensure worldwide scientific knowledge and discoveries are accessible to DOE researchers, thus accelerating the advancement of science


  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Types of STI Required Distinct Tools


    • DOE research community produces many types of scientific and technical information, each of which has its own unique characteristics and life cycle

    •As a consequence, OSTI set out to create new web-based tools for each type of STI and make it efficiently accessible to users

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Progression of STI Products


    • Information Bridge – First, R&D technical reports were made full-text searchable, freely available online. Now over 237,000 DOE technical documents fully searchable.

    • E-print Network – Created to address researchers’ self-published STI. Searches over 5.3 million e-print documents contained in more than 33 thousand separate websites and over 60 databases on energy research.

    • DOE R&D Project Summaries – Provides summaries of ongoing or recently completed DOE research projects

    Other tools were developed to uniquely address each type of STI and the manner in which they were published:

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Single-Query Search


    The Challenge: Researchers needed help sorting through the numerous products to get the most relevant results quickly

    The Solution: To simplify searching of multiple resources, OSTI integrated key STI databases into a single-query search

    Science Accelerator

    • Results are integrated

    • Results are displayed in relevance-ranked order

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    DOE STI Integrated With Other
    Federal Agency STI


    • OSTI developed and operates Science.gov, a single-search portal of STI from 14 federal science agencies

    • Science.gov represents 97 percent of the federal research and development budget

    Science.gov is among 10 government websites "meeting and exceeding" the Obama Administration’s transparency goals, according to a special report by Government Computer News, released July 27, 2009.

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Next, We Integrated Global
    R&D Results


    U.S. research results (Science.gov) plus research results from 60+ countries are searchable via single-query global science portal

    WorldWideScience.org
    The Global Science Gateway
    • Tremendous growth in search content: from 10 nations to 65 nations in 3 years
    • > 400 million pages
    • From well-known sources: e.g., PubMed, CERN, KoreaScience
    • To more obscure sources: e.g., Bangladesh Journals Online

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Launched:
    Multilingual
    WorldWideScience.org
    now breaks language barrier


    Helsinki, June 11, 2010


    • Translation of English content for non-English speakers and
    • Translation of non-English content for English speakers

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Here’s how it works …


    1. A Chinese scientist submits a query in Chinese to Multilingual WorldWideScience.org.
    2. MWWS.org uses Microsoft to translate the Chinese query into individual languages of source databases (English, French, Portuguese, Russian, etc.)
    3. MWWS.org sends the translated queries to corresponding databases, which search their contents and return results in native languages to MWWS.org.
    4. MWWS.org uses Microsoft to translate native language results into Chinese and presents results to the user in relevance-ranked order.

    Conversely, an English-speaking user could have a query translated into languages of non-English databases and then get results back in English.

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    The "Accelerating" Power of WorldWideScience.org

    Overcoming the researcher’s practical limitations:


    1. Not knowing “what’s out there.” (examples: Korean medical journals, Australian Antarctic data, South African scientific research database)
    2. Inadequate time to search scientific databases one by one. (examples: UK PubMed Central, Ginsparg’s arXiv.org)
    3. Inability to sort compiled results by relevance.


    By filling these gaps, WorldWideScience.org has accelerated access to scientific information.

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Customized Services for DOE Programs


    Using core knowledge and unique capabilities, OSTI also provides customized S&T information tools and services requested by individual DOE offices on a cost-recovery basis:


    • Information science and subject-matter expertise
    • Metadata and full-text management
    • Subject-specific databases and web portals
    • Specialized searching using federated searches, targeted crawls, and data harvesting

    One example:


    SC e-journals

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    DOE Open Government Plan


    The DOE plan includes a number of OSTI initiatives to enhance transparency of DOE R&D results.


    Highlights

    The Energy Department Open Government Plan Highlights
    Transparency Programs
    Participation Programs Collaboration Programs


    Flagship Initiatives
    The Energy Department Open Government Flagship Initiatives

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    OSTI Provides DOE "High Value" Data Sets


    Five "high value" data sets initially identified by DOE include DOE R&D results that OSTI makes accessible, searchable, findable, and usable.


    Information Bridge
    DOepatents
    DOE R&D Project Summaries
    Conference Papers & Proceedings
    Energy Citations Database

  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    How Have We Accomplished So Much?


    OSTI milestones have been achieved through:


    • The most judicious use of scarce resources
    • Leveraging collaborations, and
    • Capitalizing on ground-breaking results coming from SBIR projects

    • Relevancy ranking search results
    • Domain recognition access
    • Grade-level stratification of web documents
  • Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010

    Innovative Web Technologies— Opportunities On the Horizon


    More can and should be done with innovative web technologies to:
    • Make video full-text searchable
    • Enable mobile applications
    • Create DOIs for numeric data sets
    ARPA-E has opportunity to help advance these technologies

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