The 6th International Conference on Cooperation 
and Promotion of Information Resources in 
Science and Technology (COINFO'11)

Slide 1: WorldWideScience.org: An International
Knowledge-Sharing Model

 

Coordinative Innovation & Open Sharing
November 11-13, 2011, Hangzhou, China

Brian A. Hitson, Associate Director
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
U.S. Department of Energy

 

 

Slide 2: WorldWideScience.org

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 3: The Path we'll take …

1. What does WorldWideScience.org do?
2. A closer look at individual WWS.org databases.
3. How did we get here: history and collaboration.
4. What can we do next?

 

Slide 4: Demonstration of WorldWideScience.org Search

Play Demonstration of WorldWideScience.org Search (opens new window)

 

 

Slide 5: 1. What does WorldWideScience.org do?

A. It searches the Deep Web

• Where science is hundreds of times larger than the "surface web"
• Generally not searchable by major search engines

Deep Web

 

 

Slide 6: A Measure of WorldWideScience.org's Uniqueness

→ 33 sample queries launched in Google, Google Scholar, and WorldWideScience.org.
→ Similar quantities in the numbers of results, but very little overlap.
→ Among the "top 50" results from each search engine, only 2.4% overlap – or 97.6% uniqueness – in WorldWideScience.org results.

 

 

Slide 7: 1. What does WorldWideScience.org do? (cont'd)

B. It overcomes historic constraints on global science discovery:

i. Not knowing "what's out there." (examples: Korean medical journals, South African scientific research database)
ii. Inadequate time to search scientific databases one by one. (examples: UK PubMed Central, Ginsparg's arXiv.org)
iii. Inability to sort compiled results by relevance.

 

 

 

Slide 8: 1. What does WorldWideScience.org do? (cont'd)

C. Integrates symbiotic technologies to further accelerate scientific discovery

> Multilingual translations
> Speech indexing

 

 

Slide 9: Multilingual Translations

The world's first "one to many" and "many to one" multilingual translations tool in science.

• Most automatic translations are limited to translating from a single language into another single language.
• WorldWideScience.org partnering with Microsoft® Translator enables true multilingual functionality.

 

 

 

Slide 10: Who Is Involved in WorldWideScience.org?

Translating ten languages, with potential for more:

Arabic
Chinese
German	Deutsch
English
Spanish	Español
French	Français
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese	Português
Russian

 

Slide 11: Demonstration of Translations

Play demonstration of WorldWideScience.org Translations (opens new window)

 

 

Slide 12: Multimedia and Speech Indexing

→ Multimedia (e.g., video, audio, images) represents a major emerging form of scientific information
→ Multimedia presents special opportunities and challenges – lack of written transcripts, minimal metadata, scientific/technical/medical terminology, lengthy videos (>1 hour)

 

Slide 13: Access to Multimedia-based Science & Technology

 

A Case Study for Enhanced Multimedia Search & Retrieval http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema/

• Partnership between OSTI and Microsoft Research.
• Launched in February 2011; searches ~1,800 multimedia files.
• Utilizes Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing System (MAVIS).
• Enables searching of digitized spoken content.
• Users can search for precise term within video and be directed to the exact point in the video where the term was spoken.

Slide 14: Demonstration of Multimedia Searching in WorldWideScience.org

Play Demonstration of Multimedia Searching in WorldWideScience.org Search (opens new window)

 

 

 

Slide 15: 2. A Closer Look at Individual WWS.org Databases

• Scientific Electronic Library Online (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Venezuela)

 

Slide 16: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 17: 2. A Closer Look at Individual WWS.org Databases (cont'd)

• KoreaMed

 

Slide 18: KoreaMed

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 19: 2. A Closer Look at Individual WWS.org Databases (cont'd)

• African Journals Online

 

Slide 20: Welcome to AJOL! African Journals Online (AJOL)

 

 

 

 

Slide 21: 2. A Closer Look at Individual WWS.org Databases (cont'd)

 

• UK PubMed Central (United Kingdom)

 

 

 

Slide 22: UK PUBMED CENTRAL

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 23: 2. A Closer Look at Individual WWS.org Databases (cont'd)

 

• Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 24: ETDEWEB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 25: WorldWideScience.org Search results

 

 

 

Slide 26: ETDEWEB - Bibliographic Citation

 

 

 

Slide 27: ETDEWEB - Bibliographic Citation image of report downloaded (Investigation of optical nanostructures for photovoltaics with near-field scanning microscopy

 

 

 

 

Slide 28: ETDEWEB -- Leading the Way to WorldWide Energy Technology Discoveries

 

 

 

 

Slide 29: 3. History and Collaboration

 

• WorldWideScience.org concept emanated from Science.gov model (2006)
• Initial partnership between U.S. Department of Energy and the British Library (2007)
• Transition to multilateral governance (WorldWideScience Alliance) and ICSTI* sponsorship (2008)

*International Council for Scientific and Technical Information

 

 

Slide 30: 3. History and Collaboration (cont'd)

• Alliance representation from 49 countries … but seeking even broader participation. 
• Broad and Diverse Leadership: 
    • Chair: Richard Boulderstone (British Library)
    • Deputy Chair: Pam Bjornson (Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information)
    • Treasurer: Tae-sul Seo (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
    • Ex-Officio: Roberta Shaffer (ICSTI)
    • Ex-Officio: Walter Warnick (U.S. Department of Energy/OSTI, WorldWideScience.org Operating Agent)
    • At-Large Delegate: Martie van Deventer (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) 

 

 

Slide 31: 3. History and Collaboration (cont'd)

 

Primary Partners:
• WorldWideScience Alliance
• ICSTI
• U.S. DOE/OSTI
• Deep Web Technologies
• Microsoft Research

 

Slide 32: 4. WorldWideScience.org: What can we do next?

• Building on the base: more sources, countries, languages, full text, multimedia

 

 

 

Slide 33: Brachiocephalic veins

 

 

 

 

 

Slide 34: 4. WorldWideScience.org: What can we do next (cont'd)?

Play Demonstration WorldWideScience.org: What can we do next (opens new window)

 

• Building on the base: more sources, countries, languages, full text, multimedia
• Reach new audiences and content: e.g., international STEM materials for science education; numeric data sets
• WWS.org as a peer-to-peer platform for scientific collaboration and sharing

 

Slide 35: WorldWideScience Alliance

Contact WWS.org Operating Agent:
• Brian Hitson, hitsonb@osti.gov
• Lorrie Johnson, johnsonl@osti.gov

 

ICSTI

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