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CODATA 2008 Kyiv, Ukraine Thomas F. Lahr US Geological Survey, Reston, VA USA

WorldWideScience.org Providing Global Access to World Science: Overcoming Standards Challenges Through Federated Search. CODATA 2008 Kyiv, Ukraine Thomas F. Lahr US Geological Survey, Reston, VA USA Co-Chair, US Science.gov Alliance Alternate US Representative, WorldWideScience.org Alliance.

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CODATA 2008 Kyiv, Ukraine Thomas F. Lahr US Geological Survey, Reston, VA USA

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  1. WorldWideScience.orgProviding Global Access to World Science: Overcoming Standards Challenges Through Federated Search CODATA 2008 Kyiv, Ukraine Thomas F. Lahr US Geological Survey, Reston, VA USA Co-Chair, US Science.gov Alliance Alternate US Representative, WorldWideScience.org Alliance

  2. Why WorldWideScience.org? There is a need to find national scientific and technical information quickly and easily, but information is dispersed across thousands of web sites (“Surface Web”) in addition to being found within databases or portals (“Deep Web”).

  3. Surface Web vs Deep Web2005 • Size: Estimated to be 5 to 500 times larger (BrightPlanet) • Dynamically generated content that lives inside databases • High-quality, managed, subject-specific content • Growing faster than surface web (BrightPlanet) • Size: Estimated to be 8+ billion (Google) to 45 billion (About.com) web pages • Static, crawlable web pages • Large amounts of unfiltered information • Limited to what is easily found by search engines

  4. National Science Portals Collaboration and Coordination 2004 Vascoda (Germany) and Science.gov (US) and KISTI (Korea) Discussions and Meetings 2005 and 2006 IFLA Norway Korea – Ad Hoc Meetings of National Science Portals (hosted by GIOPS) June 2006 ICSTI Meeting Washington DC Frierson - “National Science Portals: New Potential Partnerships for Global Discovery” Warnick - “Science.world” Portal ICSTI Science Portals Forum Proposed

  5. ICSTI Science Portals Forum Proposal Organize and host 2 meetings Create a summary matrix comparing national and international science portals to identify key characteristics and issues Mobilize a proof of concept trial for a “cross science” portals search Develop a plan of action ICSTI Immediately funded 1 and 2

  6. 1. Organize and host 2 meetings January 2007 - ICSTI winter meeting in London June 2007 - ICSTI meeting Nancy

  7. 2. Create a summary matrix comparing national and international science portals to identify key characteristics and issues What is a portal? How to define scope and coverage Intellectual property rights management Search techniques- browse taxonomies, site searching, deep web, metadata, data, publications Languages

  8. US DOE/BL Agreement In January 2007 the US Department of Energy and the British Library agreed to partner to develop a global science gateway to accelerate scientific discovery

  9. WorldWideScience.org • June 2007 demonstration • 12 databases/10 countries • Invited others to join in developing governance documents-Feb 2008

  10. How Does the Worldwide Science Gateway work? The approach is to capitalize on existing “federated search” technology to search collections of science information distributed across the globe. This enables much-needed access to both prominent as well as smaller, less well-known sources of highly valuable science. Users simply submit a single query into the WorldWideScience.org search engine to launch simultaneous searching of the databases and portals of participating nations. Results are returned in relevance-ranked order.

  11. WorldWideScience Alliance • June 12, 2008 Seoul, Korea signing ceremony for this multilateral alliance • 11 founding member organizations • Representing 38 countries • ICSTI is sponsor

  12. Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org

  13. WWS.org Databases and Portals Indian Institute of Science Theses & Dissertations Indian Medlars Centre INIST (France)J-EAST (Japan) J-STAGE (Japan) J-STORE (Japan) http://www.journalarchive.jst.go.jp/english/top_en.php KoreaScience NARCIS (Netherlands) National Library of the Czech Republic Manuscriptorium   Nepal Journals Online (NepJOL) Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA) Philippines Journals Online (PhilJOL) Science.gov (United States) Scientific Electronic Library Online (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Venezuela) Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961 (New Zealand) UK PubMed Central (United Kingdom) Vascoda (Germany) Vietnam Journals Online (VJOL) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland-Publications (Finland) VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland-Research (Finland) African Journals OnlineAustralian Antarctic Data Centre Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL) Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information Catalogue of the TIB, German National Library of Science & Technolgy (TIBKat) CSIR Research Space (South Africa) Czech Academy of Sciences Repository  Defence Research and Development Canada (Canada) DEFF Global E Prints (Denmark) DEFF Research Database (Denmark) Digital Repository Service at National Institute of Oceanography (India) Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden) Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) (United Kingdom) Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB) Indian Academy of Sciences Indian Institute of Science Eprints

  14. WorldWideScience.org A rapidly growing gateway to scientific and technical information databases and portals around the world Thank You!

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