Dr. Walter L. Warnick Director Office of Scientific and Technical Information Office of Science

1. Innovative Web Resources Can Advance the DOE R&D Mission ARPA-E June 24, 2010 Dr. Walter L. WarnickDirector Office of Scientific and Technical Information Office of Science

2. OSTI Mission To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the public “If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton 1676 Premise: Science advances only if knowledge is shared Corollary: Accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge accelerates the advancement of science

3. To Accomplish Our MissionWe Take Advantage of Technology • We’re in an era of transformational technology • We’ve been constantly challenged to adapt & adopt • We’ve been early adopters • We’ve found it helpful to advance web technologies in niche areas important to our mission There’s no roadmap!

4. Focus of DOE STI Program Ensuring global access to DOE research results; bringing the world’s research to DOE • We maintain DOE STI for long-term use and make it freely & easily searchable online • We ensure worldwide scientific knowledge and discoveries are accessible to DOE researchers, thus accelerating the advancement of science

5. Types of STI Required Distinct Tools • DOE research community produces many types of scientific • and technical information, each of which has its own unique • characteristics and life cycle • As a consequence, OSTI set out to create new web-based tools for each type of STI and make it efficiently • accessible to users

6. Progression of STI Products Information Bridge – First, R&D technical reports were made full-text searchable, freely available online. Now over 237,000 DOE technical documents fully searchable. E-print Network – Created to address researchers’ self-published STI. Searches over 5.3 million e-print documents contained in more than 33 thousand separate websites and over 60 databases on energy research. DOE R&D Project Summaries – Provides summaries of ongoing or recently completed DOE research projects Other tools were developed to uniquely address each type of STI and the manner in which they were published:

7. Single-Query Search The Challenge: Researchers needed help sorting through the numerous products to get the most relevant results quickly The Solution: To simplify searching of multiple resources, OSTI integrated key STI databases into a single-query search • Results are integrated • Results are displayed in relevance-ranked order

8. DOE STI Integrated With Other Federal Agency STI • OSTI developed and operates Science.gov, a single-search portal of STI from 14 federal science agencies • Science.gov represents 97 percent of the federal research and development budget Science.gov is among 10 government websites “meeting and exceeding” the Obama Administration’s transparency goals, according to a special report by Government Computer News, released July 27, 2009.

9. Next, We Integrated Global R&D Results U.S. research results (Science.gov) plus research results from 60+ countries are searchable via single-query global science portal • Tremendous growth in search content: from 10 nations to 65 nations in 3 years • > 400 million pages • From well-known sources: e.g., PubMed, CERN, KoreaScience • To more obscure sources: e.g., Bangladesh Journals Online

10. Launched: Multilingual WorldWideScience.org now breaks language barrier Helsinki, June 11, 2010 • Translation of English content for non-English speakers and • Translation of non-English content for English speakers

11. Here’s how it works . . . • A Chinese scientist submits a query in Chinese to Multilingual WorldWideScience.org. • MWWS.org uses Microsoft to translate the Chinese query into individual languages of source databases (English, French, Portuguese, Russian, etc.) • MWWS.org sends the translated queries to corresponding databases, which search their contents and return results in native languages to MWWS.org. • MWWS.org uses Microsoft to translate native language results into Chinese and presents results to the user in relevance-ranked order. Conversely, an English-speaking user could have a query translated into languages of non-English databases and then get results back in English.

12. The “Accelerating” Power of WorldWideScience.org • Overcoming the researcher’s practical limitations: • Not knowing “what’s out there.” (examples: Korean medical journals, Australian Antarctic data, South African scientific research database) • Inadequate time to search scientific databases one by one. (examples: UK PubMed Central, Ginsparg’s arXiv.org) • Inability to sort compiled results by relevance. • By filling these gaps, WorldWideScience.org has accelerated access to scientific information.

13. Customized Services for DOE Programs • Using core knowledge and unique capabilities, • OSTI also provides customized S&T information tools and services requested by individual DOE offices on a cost-recovery basis: •  Information science and subject-matter expertise •  Metadata and full-text management •  Subject-specific databases and web portals •  Specialized searching using federated searches, targeted crawls, and data harvesting One example:

14. Highlights Flagship Initiatives DOE Open Government Plan The DOE plan includes a number of OSTI initiatives to enhance transparency of DOE R&D results. 14

15. OSTI Provides DOE “High Value” Data Sets Five “high value” data sets initially identified by DOE include DOE R&D results that OSTI makes accessible, searchable, findable, and usable. • Information Bridge • DOepatents • DOE R&D Project Summaries • Conference Papers & Proceedings • Energy Citations Database http://energy.gov/open 15

16. How Have We Accomplished So Much? • OSTI milestones have been achieved through: • The most judicious use of scarce resources • Leveraging collaborations, and • Capitalizing on ground-breaking results coming from SBIR projects • Relevancy ranking search results • Domain recognition access • Grade-level stratification of web documents

17. Innovative Web Technologies— Opportunities On the Horizon More can and should be done with innovative web technologies to: • Make video full-text searchable • Enable mobile applications • Create DOIs for numeric data sets ARPA-E has opportunity to help advance these technologies