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Multimedia and Datasets: Providing Access to New
Forms of Nuclear Information

  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Multimedia and Datasets: Providing Access to New Forms of Nuclear Information


    Brian A. Hitson
    United States Department of Energy
    Office of Scientific and Technical Information
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    The "Big Data" Era



    A definition: "A collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools." (Wikipedia)

    How big is "big data"?

    22,700,000 hits on Google.
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Everybody Is On Board



    • Policymakers
      ✦ U.S. "Big Data" Initiative - $200M (March 2012)
      ✦ European Commission: "Big Data – The Digital Agenda for Europe and Challenges for 2012"
    • Scientists/Authors
      ✦ The Fourth Paradigm – Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (2009)
      ✦ "Sailing on an Ocean of 0s and 1s," Science, Vol. 237 (2010)
      ✦ "A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing," New York Times (14 December 2009)
    • International/National bodies
      ✦ International Council of Science – ICSU
        • World Data System
        • CODATA
      ✦ U.S. Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI)
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Nuclear Data



    • Nuclear Data*
      • Types:
      ✦Experimental (e.g., Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data (EXFOR))
      ✦Evaluated (e.g., Evaluated Nuclear Data File (ENDF-6) and Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File – ENSDF)
      ✦Reaction: incident neutrons and incident charged particles and photons
      ✦Structure and decay data: half-lives, decay schemes, etc. (Nuclear Data Sheets)
    • Other data-intensive nuclear fields:
      ✦Nuclear medicine
      ✦Radiation safety
      ✦Waste management and environmental research
      ✦Materials analysis
      ✦Safeguards
      ✦Nuclear astrophysics

    * Source: Nuclear Data Section, IAEA, 2000
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    The Challenges of Numeric Data:



    • Data sets are hard to find.

    http://nucleardata.nuclear.lu.se/toi/nucSearch.asp
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    The Challenges of Numeric Data:



    • Data sets are hard to navigate.

    Screenshot of Experimental Nuclear Reaction Data (EXFOR)
    Database Version of September 21, 2012
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    The Challenges of Numeric Data:



    • Data sets are hard to cite.
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Why Cite Data?



    Data should be cited in just the same way that other sources of information, such as articles and books, are cited.

    Data citation can help by:

    ✓ enabling easy reuse and verification of data
    ✓ allowing the impact of data to be tracked
    ✓ creating a scholarly structure that recognizes and rewards data producers
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    One Solution: DataCite



    What is DataCite?

    » A global consortium composed of local institutions focused on improving the scholarly infrastructure around datasets and other non-textual information.

    » A service for assigning Digital Object Identification (DOIs) and metadata to data sets.
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    How Data Citation Works



    Data Citation metadata submitted to DOE-OSTI

    Web Service API


    241.6 AN

    DOI Assigned By DOE-OSTI

    DOE-OSTI submits nightly feed of new DOIs to DataCite

    DataCite Registers DOI


    • Dataset Type
    • Dataset Title
    • Dataset Creator/Author or Principal Investigator
    • Dataset Product Number
    • DOE Contract/Award Number
    • Originating Research Organization
    • Publication/ Issue Date
    • Sponsoring Organization
    • URL where the Dataset is posted for access
    • Contact information

    Creator/Author, Primary Investigator, or Submitter notified of Data Citation availability

    Data Citation submitted to search engines for indexing

    DOE-OSTI updates metadata record with DOI creating a full Data Citation

    DataCite validates DOI registration with DOE-OSTI
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Data Citation Demo



    Play Demonstration of Data Citation (opens new window)
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Multimedia …



    … an increasing form of scientific communications

    • Videotaped lectures
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Multimedia …



    … an increasing form of scientific communications

    • Visualizations
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Multimedia …



    … an increasing form of scientific communications

    • Experiments/Simulations

    YouTube search on "nuclear" has 3,090,000 results
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    The Challenges with Multimedia Science Information



    Translating ten languages, with potential for more

    Lack of written transcripts, i.e. no "full text" to search
    • Metadata, if available, is often minimal
    • Scientific, technical, and medical terminology/vocabulary
    • Videos can be long, often up to an hour or more
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Access to Multimedia-based Science & Technology



    A Case Study for Enhanced Multimedia Search & Retrieval

    ScienceCinema

    http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema/

    • Partnership between OSTI and Microsoft Research.
    • Launched in February 2011; searches ~2,600 multimedia files from DOE and CERN.
    • 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.
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Multimedia Search Demo



    Play Demonstration of Multimedia Search (opens new window)
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Summary

    • Big Data is here.
    • Data citation makes data:
        • easier to find
        • easier to navigate
    • Scientific multimedia is here.
    • Speech indexing makes multimedia:
        • easier to search
        • more productive for the scientist and student
  • 36th Consultative Meeting of INIS Liaison Officers, 2012 October 5

    Thank You!



    Brian A. Hitson
    hitsonb@osti.gov
    www.osti.gov
    865-576-1199
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