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Advancing Scientific Global Discovery April 8, 2008 Mr. Ricardo D. Thoroughgood

Advancing Scientific Global Discovery April 8, 2008 Mr. Ricardo D. Thoroughgood. Advancing Scientific Global Discovery. Dr. Walter L. Warnick Director, Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Advancing Scientific Global Discovery .

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Advancing Scientific Global Discovery April 8, 2008 Mr. Ricardo D. Thoroughgood

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  1. Advancing Scientific Global Discovery April 8, 2008 Mr. Ricardo D. Thoroughgood

  2. Advancing Scientific Global Discovery Dr. Walter L. Warnick Director, Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

  3. Advancing Scientific Global Discovery Dr. Walter L. Warnick Director DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information DTIC 2008 ConferenceApril 8, 2008Keynote Address

  4. OSTI Mission To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people

  5. Science Progresses as Knowledge Is Shared OSTI Corollary: If the sharing of knowledge is accelerated, discovery is accelerated Profound implications for all of us in the information business!

  6. Research Discovery Facilities Information High Performance Computing Scientists A Key Piece of Science Discovery Information feeds discovery

  7. OSTI’s Creed Knowledge is contagious, and it’s our job to make sure everyone “catches” it! To that end, we have studied the contact rate and found that researchers will “catch” an idea faster if the contact rate between scientists is increased

  8. The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Measured The Spread of Knowledge about Feynman Diagrams Discovery path of US and UK authors From: 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

  9. 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

  10. The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Accelerated Paths of Acceleration Bettencourt, Castillo-Chavez, Kaiser, Wojick

  11. But before we can accelerate the sharing of knowledge … …we must dispel the misperception that popular search engines are already doing the job

  12. Web Is Transformational Technology for Sharing Knowledge Web is still young, and will certainly hold surprises as it evolves Just as another well-known transformational technology held surprises … 2008 1903

  13. Eclipsing Current Search Technology 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! Google is capitalizing on this early era of Web technology and is hugely successful, powering more than half the world’s searching A new, promising technology now emerging: federated search

  14. Much of Science Is Non-Googleable 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 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

  15. Surface Web Deep Web databases 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

  16. OSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap; our emerging solution is “federated” search 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 (including DoD – DTIC databases are part of Science.gov)

  17. International partnership kicks off global science gateway 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.

  18. WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007 and now searches 32 portals from 44 countries Enables access to prominent as well as smaller, less well-known sources of highly valuable science WorldWideScience.org allows users to search multiple data sources around the globe from a single query search box

  19. What Is WorldWideScience.org? • 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 break-through technology

  20. Burkina Faso Botswana Argentina Algeria Australia Brazil Canada Ethiopia Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org Cameroon Egypt Denmark Congo, DR Cote d’lvoire Colombia Chile France India Japan Finland Germany Ghana

  21. Portugal Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org (cont.) The Netherlands New Zealand Kenya Lesotho Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Malawi Mauritius Korea Sudan Sweden South Africa Swaziland Senegal Spain Nigeria United Kingdom United States Zambia Zimbabwe Tanzania Togo Uganda

  22. Current WorldWideScience.org Sources • 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 • 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

  23. 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.

  24. Points of Contact Dr. Walter L. Warnick U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific & Technical Information 301-903-7996 Walter.Warnick@science.doe.gov www.osti.gov Mr. Ricardo D. Thoroughgood DTIC 703-767-8052 rthoroug@dtic.mil www.dtic.mil

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