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Dr. Walter L. WarnickDirector

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information

DTIC 2008 ConferenceApril 8, 2008

Keynote Address

Advancing Scientific Global Discovery

Advancing Scientific Global Discovery

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To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D

findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people

OSTI Mission OSTI Mission

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Science Progresses as Science Progresses as Knowledge Is SharedKnowledge Is Shared

Science Progresses as Science Progresses as Knowledge Is SharedKnowledge Is Shared

OSTI Corollary:

If the sharing of knowledge is accelerated, discovery is accelerated

Profound implications for all of us in the information business!

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Discovery

Research

Facilities

High Performance Computing Scientists

Information

Information feeds discovery

A Key Piece of Science Discovery

5From: The Power of a Good Idea: quantitative modeling of the spread of ideas from epidemiological models, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Ariel Cintron-Arias, Carlos Castillo-Chavez; David Kaiser, May 2005

Discovery path of US and UK authors

The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Measured

The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Measured

The Spread of Knowledge about Feynman Diagrams

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The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Modeled

The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Modeled

Path of Best Trajectory

From Report for the Office of Scientific and Technical Information: Population Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields; Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, David Kaiser, David E. Wojick, October, 2006

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Bettencourt, Castillo-Chavez, Kaiser, Wojick

Paths of Acceleration

The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Accelerated

The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Accelerated

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Knowledge is contagious, and it’s our job to make sure

everyone “catches” it easier and quicker!

OSTI’s CreedOSTI’s Creed

To that end, we intend to study factors that determine the rate at which researchers will “catch” an idea if the contact rate between scientists is increased

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…we must dispel the misperception

that popular search engines are already doing the job

But before we can accelerate the sharing of knowledge …But before we can accelerate the sharing of knowledge …

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Web is still young, and will certainly hold surprises as it evolves

Just as another well-known transformational technology held surprises …

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Web Is Transformational Technology for Sharing Knowledge

Web Is Transformational Technology for Sharing Knowledge

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Google is capitalizing on this early era of Web technology and is hugely successful, powering more than half the world’s searching

But we must remember that we are just in the beginning of this transformation. Further technological transformations may very well eclipse today’s search technology!

A new, promising technology now emerging: federated search

Eclipsing Current Search Technology

Eclipsing Current Search Technology

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Much of Science

Is Non-Googleable Much of Science

Is Non-Googleable

We in the information business need to recognize this gap between availability and need,

and seize the opportunity to …

Provide science information consumers with better tools

In fact, the vast majority of science information is in databases within the deep Web – or the non-Googleable Web – where popular search engines cannot go

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Federated search drills down to the deep Web where scientific databases reside

We need systems, such as federated search, that probe the

deep Web

Unlike the Google sitemap protocol solution, federated search places no burden on the database owners

Deep Web databases

Surface Web

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50 million pages of federal science information from 13 U.S. science agencies (including DoD – DTIC databases are part of Science.gov)

Key DOE databases

Our most recent federated search engine is WorldWideScience.org – the global science gateway

OSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap; our emerging solution is “federated” searchOSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap; our emerging solution is “federated” search

(including DoD – DTIC databases are part of Science.gov)

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In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, DOE Under Secretary for Science, and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library signed a Statement of Intent to partner in the development of a searchable global science gateway.

International partnership kicks off global science gateway

16WorldWideScience.org allows users to search multiple data sources around the globe from a single query search box

Enables access to prominent as well as smaller, less well-known sources of highly valuable science

WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007 and now searches 32 portals from 44 countries

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A federation of the leading science portals sponsored by the governments and national institutions of 44 countries

A quantity of science (more than 200 million pages from every inhabited continent) searched comparable to that searchable via Google, with the bulk of the science being non-Googleable

A contrast to content searched by Google – WWS.org content tends to be scholarly

A breakthrough in content enabled by breakthrough technology 

What Is WorldWideScience.org?

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Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org

Canada Denmark

BrazilAustralia

India

Argentina

Chile Colombia

GermanyFranceFinland

Algeria Botswana Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Congo, DR Cote d’lvoire Egypt

Ethiopia Ghana Japan

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Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org (cont.)

United States

United Kingdom

SpainSouth Africa

Portugal

The Netherlands

New Zealand

Kenya Lesotho Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Malawi Mauritius

Nigeria Senegal Sudan Swaziland

Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

Korea

Sweden

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Current WorldWideScience.org Sources• African Journals Online

• Article@INIST (France)

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre

• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

• CSIR Research Space (South Africa)

• Defence Research and Development Canada (Canada)

• DEFF Global E Prints (Denmark)

• DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

• Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)

• Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) (United Kingdom)

• Indian Academy of Sciences

• Indian Institute of Science Eprints

• Indian Institute of Science Theses & Dissertations

• Indian Medlars Centre

• J-EAST (Japan)

• J-STAGE (Japan)

• J-STORE (Japan)

• Journal@rchive (Japan)

• Korea Science (Korea)

• NARCIS (Netherlands)

• Science.gov (United States)

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

• Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961 (New Zealand)

• UK PubMed Central (United Kingdom)

• Vascoda (Germany)

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Publications Register

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Research Register

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The stage Is Set for the Future The stage Is Set for the Future

We are ready to scale up our efforts in federated search.

Simply put, we intend to make more science accessible to more people

than anyone has done before.