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


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

    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 & Technical Information
    U.S. Department of Energy
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    WorldWideScience.org

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

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

    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

    DeepWeb
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    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.
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    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.
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    1. What does WorldWideScience.org do? (cont'd)




    C. Integrates symbiotic technologies to further accelerate scientific discovery

    > Multilingual translations
    > Speech indexing
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    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.
  • The 6th International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology (COINFO'11)

    Multilingual Translations



    Translating ten languages, with potential for more:

    Arabic Arabic
    Chinese Chinese
    German Deutsch
    English  
    Spanish Español
    French Français
    Japanese Japanese
    Korean Korean
    Portuguese Português
    Russian Russian
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  • The 6th International Conference on Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology (COINFO'11)

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

    2. A Closer Look at Individual WWS.org Databases


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

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


    • KoreaMed
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    KoreaMed

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


    • African Journals Online
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    Welcome to AJOL! African Journals Online (AJOL)

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


    • UK PubMed Central (United Kingdom)
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    UK PUBMED CENTRAL

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


    • Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
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    ETDEWEB


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    WorldWideScience.org Search results

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    ETDEWEB - Bibliographic Citation


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

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    ETDEWEB -- Leading the Way to WorldWide Energy Technology Discoveries


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

    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
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    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)
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    3. History and Collaboration (cont'd)


    Primary Partners:
    • WorldWideScience Alliance
    • ICSTI
    • U.S. DOE/OSTI
    • Deep Web Technologies
    • Microsoft Research
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    4. WorldWideScience.org: What can we do next?


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

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    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
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    WorldWideScience Alliance


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

    ICSTI

    Translations powered by Microsoft® Translator

    Microsoft® Research
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