Advancing Science, Accelerating Discovery Walt Warnick, Ph.D.

1. Advancing Science, Accelerating Discovery Walt Warnick, Ph.D. DirectorU.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information 2008 STIP Working MeetingSanta Fe, New MexicoApril 23, 2008

2. Thanks to Los Alamos National Laboratory & Santa Fe! Thanks to special guests! And welcome everyone

3. Making the Case for Science Thanks to Gloria Zamora for

4. OSTI Corollary Premise Sharing knowledge (our R&D findings)advances science Corollary Accelerating the sharing of knowledge speeds the advancement of science (discovery)

5. Government Role RecognizedSet Foundation for DOE’s STI Program “The diffusion of such knowledge should help us stimulate new enterprises, provide jobs for our returning servicemen and other workers, and make possible great strides for the improvement of the national well-being.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 17, 1944 “…the lid must be lifted” on war-time science, and “the government should accept new responsibilities for promoting the flow of new scientific knowledge….” —Vannevar Bush, July 1945 response to FDR in Science, the Endless Frontierhttp://www.nsf.gov/about/history/vbush1945.htm

6. OSTI & STIP 60+ years later OSTI MISSIONTo advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to Department of Energy (DOE) researchers and the American people We are still on that frontier, deploying information technology in revolutionary ways to accelerate what President Roosevelt and Vannevar Bush called “knowledge diffusion.”

7. Role in Office of Science OSTI works to ensure that DOE’s contributions to science are shared with a wide range of audiences, including the general public, news media, scientific and research communities, business/industry, Congress, OMB, and OSTP

8. Organization Changes Office of the Director Staff Deputy Director for Resource Management Alleva (A) Deputy Director for Science Programs Dehmer Staff Deputy Director for Field Operations Malosh Chicago Office Wunderlich Office of LPE Streit AMSO Baebler ASCR Strayer WDTS Valdez Office of Budget Klausing Office of Business Policy & Operations Alleva ASO Lutha Office of SSI Jones SC Integrated Support Center BES Kung (A) Office of Project Assessment Lehman Office of Grants & Contracts Support Rubinstein OSTI Warnick BSO Richards BHSO Holland BER Elwood (A) Administration and Information Services Brian Hitson FSO Livengood New partners/ new synergy Oak Ridge Office Boyd FES Fonck OSO Moore SC Communications and Public Affairs Peter Lincoln PSO Faul HEP Kovar (A) PNSO Weis Information Systems Karen Spence NP Simon-Gillo (A) SSO Golan TJSO Turi Program Integration Sharon Jordan 3/31/08

9. New Responsibilities New partners/ new synergy • SC Communications and Public Affairs • SC Headquarters, Labs, and Field Offices communications • SC Web page management • E.O. Lawrence, Fermi, and PECASE awards • National Science Bowl promotion/publicity • Other efforts to promote SC contributions to science • Searchable Field Work Proposals (FWP) • Management tool to search, evaluate, and monitor FWPs • DOE R&D Tracking

10. Multiplier factor Making R&D Accessible • Accelerating the spread of knowledge inspires everything we do at OSTI • Making DOE’s discoveries more broadly known • Diffusing knowledge generated by labs to further the advancement of science and technology • Specifically, OSTI aggressively pursues efficient access to expanded sources of R&D information • Innovative tools, such as the DOE Science Accelerator, Science.gov and WorldWideScience.org, and the technology behind them, federated deep Web searching, are key initiatives

11. Surface Web Deep Web databases Federated Search Useful when full bibliographical control is not feasible Most Science Info Is in the Deep Web Federated search drills down to the deep Web where scientific databases reside Unlike the Google solution, federated search places no burden on the database owners We need systems, such as federated search, that probe the deep Web

12. OSTI on the Right Track • OMB Watch • OSTI one of five federal government Web sites recognized as “on the right track” by OMB Watch, a nonprofit government watchdog organization located in Washington, DC. • The report, Hiding in Plain Sight: Why Important Government Information Cannot Be Found through Commercial Search Engines, was released December 11 and spotlights the gap in accessibility of government information • http://www.ombwatch.org/info/searchability.pdf

13. OSTI on the Right Track • Sitemap Protocol • Google’s J.L. Needham cited OSTI as an example of a government Web site that increased citizen access to government information by incorporating Google’s sitemap protocol: "the Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information operates a large database that makes research and development findings available to the public. OSTI developed a Sitemap for its Energy Citations and Information Bridge services in just 12 hours, opening up 2.3 million bibliographic records and full-text documents to crawling by search engines. After its implementation of Sitemaps, OSTI saw a dramatic increase in traffic to its services..." • OSTI the first “.gov” to implement sitemap protocol

14. OSTI on the Right Track • Leveraging technology (e.g. federated search) vs. invoking prescribed standards • FY 2007 Report to Congress on Implementation of The E-Government Act of 2002(Science.gov again recognized) • “Science.gov provides search capability across 30 Federal agency R&D databases and provides links to science websites and scientific databases so citizens can access the results of Federal research. In FY 2007 Science.gov experienced 6.5 million search queries across all its scientific databases and 2.6 million page views of its website.”

15. Federated Search Tools Celebrating 5th Anniversary! 50 million pages of federal science information from 13 U.S. science agencies V. 5.0 Coming Soon! Celebrating 1st Anniversary! Key DOE databases, including technical reports, e-prints, accomplishments, patents, project summaries, software and more from DOE labs, grantees & other facilities NEW! Our most recent federated search engine is WorldWideScience.org – the global science gateway Alliance Election Complete!

16. STI Provided by DOE Sites These tools search databaseswhere DOE STI is located as well as STI of interest to DOE WorldWideScience.org Global science DATABASES Science.gov USA science We are diffusing the knowledge generated by our STI partners through “regular” channels to NTIS & GPO and through federated search to broad audiences everywhere! Science Accelerator DOE science Not to Scale

17. Federated Search Tools • A federation of the leading science portals of authoritative science information, searchable via one query • A quantity of science searched comparable to that searchable via Google, with the bulk of the science being non-Googleable • A contrast to content searched by Google – tends to be scholarly • A breakthrough in content enabled by breakthrough technology

18. More than 200 million pages from every inhabited continent! 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

20. Innovations in the Works • Domain recognition • Grade-level stratification • Multi-lingual translations • Spell check SBIR-generated capabilities

21. Digitization Initiative • Completed digitization of technical reports issued during 1991 to 1994 • Seeking a solution to digitize the entire legacy collection – 900K+ documents • Recognizing limitations of in-house scanning • Thinking outside the box – “no cost” contract • Issued Expression of Interest, Summer 2007 • Currently in negotiations (slow progress)

22. Science Education Portal Supports the America COMPETES Act www.scienceeducation.gov in the works! Search across all DOE resources with one query to improve K-16 science education programs and spark interest in scientific, engineering, and math-related career fields

23. Web 2.0 at OSTI • Web 2.0 Beginnings • Wiki • Blog • Widgets

24. The OSTIblog provides an opportunity for OSTI to better inform the public and for the public to better inform OSTI Invitation to Comment & Post Three Threads • Personal Perspectives • Products & Content • Technology www.osti.gov/blog

25. Onward! • STIP meeting agenda is full of great topics & presentations • We’ll learn from each other and • Invigorate our ideas & path forward