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DOE’s STI Program and Products


Accelerating Science by Accelerating the Sharing of Knowledge. Link to larger image.

Slide 1: DOE’s STI Program and Products


Sharon Jordan
Assistant Director for Program Integration
CENDI Meeting
May 5, 2010

 

 

Mission. Link to larger image.

Slide 2: Focus of DOE’s STI Program

 

Priority #1:

Create a centrally managed, authoritative collection of DOE STI for long-term use and access   

Priority #2:

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

 

Department of Energy. Link to larger image.

Slide 3: DOE’s Scientific Disciplines

 

From A to Z (well, W)
ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BIOMASS FUELS CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION EFFECTS OF RADIATION AND OTHER POLLUTANTS ON BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND ORGANISMS ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY ENERGY STORAGE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS GEOSCIENCES GEOTHERMAL ENERGY HYDRO ENERGY HYDROGEN INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCES MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES MATERIALS SCIENCE MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY NATURAL GAS NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS OTHER INSTRUMENTATION PARTICLE ACCELERATORS PETROLEUM PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE SOLAR ENERGY SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS SYNTHETIC FUELS TIDAL AND WAVE POWER WIND ENERGY


 


OSTI Placement in the Department. Link to larger image.

Slide 4: Ensuring Access to DOE R&D Results


OSTI coordinates with POCs across the complex


DOE R&D results are:


  • Collected from DOE offices, labs, and facilities, as well as university grantees;
  • Preserved for re-use;
  • Made accessible via multiple web outlets.

Interagency and international partnerships leverage access and use of DOE R;&D results


"The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain within the Department publicly available collections of scientific and technical information resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department."

 

STI Foundation in DOE. Link to larger image.

Slide 5: Mission in Balance

 

STI Program Is Balancing…

  • Access to DOE's publicly releasable R&D findings
  • With appropriate safe-guards for unclassified but sensitive material as well as for classified weapons research documents.

DOE’s STI is disseminated by OSTI per markings provided by submitting labs, facilities, and offices

Markings address OUO, ECI, and more….. Including PPII

 

 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 Called Out OSTI. Link to larger image.

Slide 6: STI "Directive"

 

DOE Order 241.1A, Scientific and Technical Information Management, defines purpose, objectives, requirements and responsibilities

 

  • In official revision process
  • Addressing new forms of STI
  • Collaboration emphasized
    BUT
  • Distributed electronic infrastructure
    requires agreeing to
    “drive on right side of road”

 

The OSTI Corollary. Link to larger image.

Slide 7: The DOE STI Program Is a Collaboration

 

STI representatives from labs & offices meet annually

Bimonthly
teleconferences held

Working groups deal
with special topics, e.g.,
"New Media WG" and
"Legacy Digitization"

 

 

The “What”. Link to larger image.

Slide 8: Best Practices Defined Collaboratively

 

  • Website redesign in progress
  • Work of cross-cutting team
  • To be launched in late May or June

 

The “Why” - Historical. Link to larger image.

Slide 9: E-Link Web-Based Reporting System

 

  • Documents the receipt, review and release from “input” to “output” products
  • Used by grantees to submit final reports and by awarding officials and programs to review reports
  • Offers reporting for sites’ use in managing their STI process
  • Used for tracking and statistics

DOE Support to Data.gov. Link to larger image.

Slide 10: DOE STI Repository


Legacy R&D Document Collection:

  • 1.2 MILLION full-text scientific documents, representing the cumulative scientific knowledge from DOE and predecessor agencies’ R&D efforts dating from the early 1940s.

  • Approx 15% of the collection has been digitized


Since 2001, R&D documents are received in digital form from originators. Born digital documents = Over 197K



DOE support to data.gov (continued). Link to larger image.

Slide 11: Serving the Nation… by Sharing Science www.osti.gov


1940’s Atomic Energy Commission created Nuclear Science Abstracts began

1950’s Microfiche & Full-Text Docs to Depository Libraries Atoms-For-Peace Program
1960’s Computer Technology implemented International cooperations put in place (IAEA)
1970’s AEC became Energy Research and Development Administration Energy Database (EDB) began, broadened info scope ERDA became Dept of Energy Dept Directive DOE O 1340.1 includes technical reports
1980’s International Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE) Charter member of CENDI Database Structure DOE STI Directives created
1990’s Digitization of Report Literature Began Innovation of Multiple Internet Age Tools STIP Strategic Plan Adopted Dublin Core Electronic STI submissions
2000’s Electronic Transition completed Web Tools and Federated Searching expanded Increased STI Usage via Web Technology Innovations continue: relevance ranking, alerts, social media, etc.

 

 

 

 

Times Have Changed. Link to larger image.

Slide 12: STI Access in the Information Age

 

  • Single Query Access
  • Tailored Product Functionalities
  • Customer Driven Services
  • Non-Text Media
  • Web 2.0 Capabilities

 

Meeting Open Gov Goals. Link to larger image.

Slide 13: New methods / focus

  • Innovative development

    • Context Sensitive Word Clouds
    • Relevant Content “narrowing” clusters

    • "More Like This" technology
    • WorldCat inclusion in bibliographic citation
    • Wikipedia Inclusion in bibliographic citation
    • OpenURL

     

    DOE STI = "High Value" Data Sets. Link to larger image.

    Slide 14: STI Products Today

     

    Information Bridge – R&D technical reports are full-text searchable, freely available online.


    Is primary set of R&D findings published as documents


    Now over 237,000 DOE technical documents fully searchable.


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




    DOE Open Government Plan Issued April 7. Link to larger image.

    Slide 15: www.osti.gov/bridge

     

    Author and subject clusters

    Word Clouds

     

    Launched on Earth Day. Link to larger image.

    Slide 16: Additional Features for IB

     

    OSTI obtains
    Cross
    Ref DOI for DOE tech reports


    Select the document title, then start a discussion "See/Add Document Discussion"

     

     

    Taking Advantage of Technology. Link to larger image.

    Slide 17: ecd


    Energy Citations Database: citations from 40s to present (NSA and EDB included)


    • WorldCat for journal articles
    • Link to Open Access Journals
    • Hotlink to NTIS Availability

    • Availability OSTI as DE97007054 To purchase this media from NTIS, click here

    • Hover over title on search results page: OSTI ID plus the abstract displays

    www.osti.gov/energycitations

     

     

    New Age of Digital Delivery. Link to larger image.

    Slide 18: Ensuring DOE R&D Is Globally Accessible; Bringing R&D from Global Sources to DOE


    Sources of Scientific and Technical Information (STI)

    Key Specialized OSTI Information Sites

    Federated Search Across Multiple Sites

     

    Types of STI Required Distinct Tools. Link to larger image.

    Slide 19: Because R&D Results Are Useful

     

    Making DOE STI searchable and easily found



     

    Progression of OSTI Products. Link to larger image.

    Slide 20: Where Is the Industry Headed?


    • Open Government
    • Many OSTI data sets are in Data.gov
    • Determining what new data sets would be high value
    • "Machine-readable" formats desired
    • Cookies/Persistent Cookies
    • New OMB guidance on session cookies may be coming
    • Many potential changes to underlying OSTI systems to better address user needs/preferences
    • Multimedia
    • OSTI is positioning to start accepting multimedia types of STI
    • New STI Order addresses new forms of STI
    • http://www.osti.gov/sciencepix/
    • Microsoft audio indexing project


     

     

     

    The Solution: Federated Search www.ScienceAccelerator.gov. Link to larger image.

    Slide 21: Multimedia Prototypes

     


    Collaboration: CENDI Is a Model. Link to larger image.

    Slide 22: Ensuring Access to Science Information and Research Results


    OSTI’s Ongoing Collaborative Efforts. Link to larger image.

    Slide 23: Continuing to Adapt and Adopt

     

    We must do new things because what it means to manage STI in 2010 is very different than what it was even 10 years ago.

     

     

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