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DOE Showcase CENDI Meeting May 5, 2010

DOE Showcase CENDI Meeting May 5, 2010. Accelerating Science by Accelerating the Sharing of Knowledge. Walter L. Warnick, Ph.D. Director Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Mission.

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DOE Showcase CENDI Meeting May 5, 2010

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  1. DOE ShowcaseCENDI MeetingMay 5, 2010 Accelerating Science by Accelerating the Sharing of Knowledge Walter L. Warnick, Ph.D. Director Office of Scientific and Technical Information

  2. Mission • Energy SecurityPromoting America’s energy security through reliable, clean, and affordable energy  • Nuclear SecurityEnsuring America’s nuclear security  • Scientific Discovery and InnovationStrengthening U.S. scientific discovery, economic competitiveness, and improving quality of life through innovations in science and technology   • Environmental ResponsibilityProtecting the environment by providing a responsible resolution to the environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production   • Management ExcellenceEnabling the mission through sound management

  3. OSTI Placement in the Department OSTI has a corporate role in DOE, related to R&D, to advance science and technology.

  4. STI Foundation in DOE From the beginning, dissemination of STI has been a foundational mission of the Department. • OSTI responsibility has been established in the: • Atomic Energy Acts of 1946 and 1954 • Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 • Department of Energy Act of 1977 • Energy Policy Act of 2005 • America COMPETES Act of 2007 The methods & customers have changed totally, but the mission remains the same.

  5. Energy Policy Act of 2005 Called Out OSTI “The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain within the Department publicly available collections of scientific and technical information resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department.”

  6. The OSTI Corollary Premise: Science advances only if knowledge is shared Corollary: Accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge accelerates the advancement of science Accelerating the advancement of science benefits DOE researchers, the Nation, and the world

  7. The “What” “establish and maintain a central source of information . . .” “disseminate scientific, technical, and practical information . . .” “The Secretary, through OSTI, shall maintain publicly available collections of scientific and technical information . . .”

  8. The “Why” - Historical “To provide that free interchange of ideas and criticism which is essential to scientific and industrial progress and public understanding and to enlarge the fund of technical information” “The government should accept new responsibilities for promoting the flow of new scientific knowledge . . .” (Vannevar Bush to President Truman, 1945)

  9. 1. The Research Division of the District is making plans for a complete and authoritative scientific record of all research work performed by Manhattan District contractors.

  10. • Transparency • Participation • Collaboration The “Why” – Current Day “My Administration will . . . disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use.” Open Government

  11. Times Have Changed Responsibilities Remain the Same But the Technologies and the Execution Are Dramatically Different

  12. Meeting Open Gov Goals OSTI provided 17 tools and services to Data.gov, including XML scientific dataset services, scientific search widgets, and science-related RSS feeds

  13. DOE STI = “High Value” Data Sets Five data sets identified by DOE as “high value” data sets – including DOE R&D results that OSTI is making accessible, searchable, findable, usable. • Information Bridge • DOepatents • DOE R&D Project Summaries • Conference Papers & Proceedings • Energy Citations Database http://energy.gov/open

  14. DOE Open Government PlanIssued April 7 Cass Sunstein, head of OIRA at OMB, said, having read all 30 plans, three of them stuck out as the best - including DOE's, that it was "spectacular, off the charts good.“ The DOE plan includes a number of OSTI initiatives to enhance transparency of DOE R&D results.

  15. Launched on Earth Day!

  16. Taking 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!

  17. New Age of Digital Delivery • Enables more robust products performing in new and different ways • Permits ability to engage customers with heretofore unprecedented levels of interactivity

  18. 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

  19. Progression of OSTI Products Our first priority, to make R&D technical reports full-text searchable, freely available online. Other web tools were developed to uniquely address each type of STI and the manner in which they were published. FOR EXAMPLE: Another unique STI product: E-Print Network – Created to address researchers’ self-published STI. THEN, a new challenge emerged: Helping researchers sort through the products to get the most relevant results quickly.

  20. The Solution: Federated Search www.ScienceAccelerator.gov • Science Accelerator searches via a single query: • DOE research and development (R&D) projects and programs, • Descriptions of R&D projects under way or recently completed, • Major R&D accomplishments, and • Recent research of interest to DOE. • Federated Search technology facilitates searching • multiple information resources in parallel. • You need not know ahead of time which resource might have the • information you seek. • You are not limited to searching one resource at a time.

  21. Collaboration: CENDI Is a Model Transparency and Open Government Government should be collaborative.   Collaboration actively engages Americans in the work of their Government. Executive departments and agencies should use innovative tools, methods, and systems to cooperate among themselves, across all levels of Government, and with nonprofit organizations, businesses, and individuals in the private sector.  

  22. OSTI’s Ongoing Collaborative Efforts • Within DOE • Across U.S. government • International • With industry Collaborations are valued as a means to maximize opportunities and increase access to R&D information at various levels:

  23. Begun as a DOE initiative, OSTI partnered with sister organization, the Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) • Broadened project to include other agencies • Beta Version opened December 2009 • Provides novel single-query search of STEM education materials from six agencies. • Development of grade stratification by an SBIR awardee is being assessed as one component • Open platform used, inviting participation by teachers to comment, review, and tag resources • Modeled after Science.gov in terms of operation, governance, and search capabilities

  24. Supporting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education

  25. Technology Innovation Two current examples: • Multilingual Federated Search • Multilingual WorldWideScience.org • Multimedia Search and Retrieval • “SciencePix” pilot project

  26. Science Advances Only If Knowledge Is Shared OSTI Corollary 1Scientific discovery can be accelerated by accelerating access to scientific information. “If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.”Sir Isaac Newton We now are introducing … OSTI Corollary 2Multilingual translations of science will further accelerate scientific discovery. The case for Multilingual WorldWideScience.org

  27. Here’s how it will work… • A Chinese scientist submits a query in Chinese to Multilingual WorldWideScience.org. • WWS.org uses Microsoft to translate the Chinese query into individual languages of source databases (English, French, Portuguese, Russian, etc.) • Multilingual WWS.org sends the translated queries to corresponding databases, which search their contents and return results in native languages. • WWS.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.

  28. Key Changes/Impacts in Internet Era • Increased use/visibility of DOE R&D: from 1995 to 2009, web transactions increase from 300,000 to 87,000,000 – a 28,900%increase. • Customer base extends beyond librarians, directly to scientists and science-attentive public. • Federated searching opens science’s “deep web,” where Google and other search engines are not reaching.

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