Tracking Trends and Informing Actions

Slide 1: Tracking Trends and Informing Actions

IEA Clean Energy Technologies Symposium
Suntec City, Singapore
2-3 November 2010

Brian A. Hitson
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Chair, IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange

 

 

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"The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: Knowledge drives innovation; Innovation drives productivity; Productivity drives our economic growth."

(William Brody, President, Johns Hopkins University, 2005)

 

 

Slide 3: ETDE Implementing Agreement

 

• OSTI Comprehensive and cross-cutting
• 15 government signatories from five continents
• 5 partners
• Mission
• "To provide governments, industry and the research community in the member countries with access to the widest range of information on energy research, science and technology and to increase dissemination of this information to developing countries."

 

Slide 4: ETDE Stakeholders

Government Signatories:

• Brazil
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• Germany
• Korea, Rep. of
• Mexico
• The Netherlands
• Norway
• Portugal
• South Africa
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United States
  
  

Partners: IAEA International Nuclear Information System (INIS)

• IEA Clean Coal Centre
• WorldWideScience.org
• World Energy Congress
• IEA Hydrogen Implementing Agreement

Slide 5: ETDEWEB

• The world's largest energy RD&D "knowledge"base (4.4 million records)
• More efficient than a Google search (87 percent unique!)
• Avoids duplication of research efforts
• Accelerates research collection process
• Identifies experts in particular research areas around the world
• "ETDEWEB is clearly the information system of reference; many national websites on energy RTD link to ETDEWEB."
– Energy RTD Information Systems in the European Research Area, European Commission, 2007

 

 

Slide 6: Energy and Environmental Records

 

Topic	Records
Nuclear	>1 million
Renewables	698,611
Fossil energy	556,554
Environmental (land, water or atmosphere)	427,497
Energy planning, policy and economy	210,457
Energy efficiency, conservation, consumption and use	197,692
Transportation/Advanced Propulsion	78,594
Fuel Cells, energy storage/conversion	78,170

 

 

Slide 7: Renewable Energies

 

Topic	Records
Hydrogen	285,213
Solar or Photovoltaic	182,392
Biomass, biofuels, bioenergy	81,931
Wind	46,083
Hydro	35,846
Geothermal	34,920
Synthetic Fuels	29,538
Tidal and Wave	2,688
	698,611

 

Slide 8: How does ETDEWEB work?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 9: Screen capture of ETDEWEB "Easy Search"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 10: Screen capture of ETDEWEB "Easy Search Results"

Search Refinement Aid
search phrase
# of records found
Note diversity of sources: Brazil, Canada, Brunei, Malaysia

 

 

Slide 11: Screen capture of ETDEWEB "Bibliographic Citation"

Translate record in 34 languages
Link to full text

 

 

Slide 12: Screen capture of full text "Doria"

 

 

 

 

Slide 13: Screen capture of ETDEWEB "Bibliographic Citation"

 

Link to journal article

 

 

 

Slide 14: Screen capture of journal article "SciVerse"

 

 

 

Slide 15: Some Interesting titles for Asia and ASEAN countries:

 

ETDEWEB Bibliographic Citation

 

 

 

Slide 16: Some Interesting titles…

ETDEWEB Bibliographic Citation
Fourteen lessons learned from the successful nuclear power program of the Republic of Korea

 

 

Slide 17: Some Interesting titles…

 

ETDEWEB Bibliographic Citation
Preliminary investigation of the potential of harnessing tidal energy for electricity generation in Malaysia

 

 

Slide 18: Some Interesting titles…

 

ETDEWEB Bibliographic Citation
Preliminary investigation of the potential of harnessing tidal energy for electricity generation in Malaysia

 

 

Slide 19: Some Interesting titles…

 

ETDEWEB Bibliographic Citation
Implications of using clean technologies to power selected ASEAN countries

 

 

 

Slide 20: Screen capture of ETDEWEB Federated Search

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 21: Screen capture of ETDEWEB Federated Search Results

Slide 22: ETDEWEB Access and Use

 

• Access limited to ETDE signatories and specific developing countries.
• Recent innovations in domain recognition technology (e.g., ".de"(Germany) domain) allow user "authentication"without password or registration.
• Usage has increased by twenty-fold among member and developing countries.
• Translations 'widget'for 34 languages.

 

 

Slide 23: Developing Country Access

 

Afghanistan	Guatemala	Nigeria
Albania	Guinea	Pakistan
Algeria	Guinea-Bissau	Palestinian Territories (West Bank/ Gaza)
Angola	Guyana	Papua New Guinea
Armenia	Haiti	Paraguay
Azerbaijan	Honduras	Peru
Bangladesh	Indonesia	Philippines
Belize	Iraq	Rwanda
Benin	Jordan	Samoa
Bhutan	Kenya	Sao Tome and Principe
Bolivia	Kiribati	Senegal
Burkina Faso	Kyrgyzstan	Sierra Leone
Burundi	Lao People's Democratic Republic	Solomon Islands
Cambodia	Lesotho	Somalia
Cameroon	Liberia	Sri Lanka
Cape Verde	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	Swaziland
Central African Republic	Madagascar	Tajikistan
Chad	Malawi	Tanzania, United Republic of
Colombia	Maldives	Thailand
Comoros	Mali	Timor-Leste
Congo	Marshall Islands	Togo
Congo, The Democratic Republic of	Mauritania	Tonga
Cote d'Ivoire	Micronesia, Federated States of	Tunisia
Djibouti	Moldova, Republic of	Turkmenistan
Ecuador	Mongolia	Uganda
Egypt	Morocco	Ukraine
El Salvador	Mozambique	Uzbekistan
Eritrea	Myanmar	Vanuatu
Ethiopia	Namibia	Vietnam
Gambia	Nepal	Yemen
Georgia	Nicaragua	Zambia
Ghana	Niger	Zimbabwe

 

 

Slide 24: ETDE Membership

 

• Task-sharing: prepare and submit records of energy RTD activities published within the member country (from journals, technical reports, conference proceedings, books, etc.), including full text when available.
• Cost-sharing: make contribution to cover annual cost of the exchange (i.e., primarily, ETDEWEB), consisting of "base" fee and "additional"contribution (related to national energy R&D expenditures relative to other member countries).
• Contracting party has right to determine ETDEWEB access policies and any fees within its national borders.

 

Slide 25: Conclusion

• Becoming a member in ETDE will:
• Increase national research capabilities
• Provide a sound basis for decision-making
• Drive innovation



Brian Hitson
U.S. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Chair, Energy Technology Data Exchange
hitsonb@osti.gov
+1-865-576-1199

www.etde.org