FLICC Meeting, November 29, 2007Sharing Our Knowledge
Dr. Walter L. WarnickDirector
DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Advancing Global Discovery
OSTI Mission:
To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D
findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people
Science Progresses as Science Progresses as Knowledge Is SharedKnowledge Is Shared
OSTI Corollary:
If the sharing of knowledge is accelerated, discovery is accelerated
Profound implications for all of us in the information business!
We can accelerate the sharing of knowledge …
But first we must dispel the misperception
that popular search engines are already doing the job
Much of Science is Non-Googleable
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
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
Deep Web databases
Surface Web
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 solution, federated search places no burden on the database owners
OSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap; our emerging solution is “federated” search
50 million pages of federal science information
Key DOE databases
Our most recent federated search engine is WorldWideScience.org – the global science gateway
In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, 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.
International partnership kicks off global science gateway
WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007 and now searches 24 portals from 17 countries of every inhabited continent
WorldWideScience.org allows the users to search multiple data sources around the globe from a single query search box
Enables access to prominent as well as smaller, less well-knownsources of highly valuable science
A federation of the leading science portals sponsored by the governments of 17 countries
A quantity of science searched comparable to that
searchable via Google, with the bulk of the science being non-Googleable
A breakthrough in content enabled by break-through technology
What Is WorldWideScience.org?
Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org
United States
Canada
Denmark Germany The Netherlands
United Kingdom
France
Brazil
Japan
Australia
Spain
Argentina Chile Colombia
New Zealand
Portugal South Africa
Current WorldWideScience.org Sources
African Journals Online (South Africa) 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) Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC)
(United Kingdom) J-EAST (Japan)
J-STAGE (Japan) J-STORE (Japan)Journal@rchive (Japan) 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)
LIVE DEMO
The stage is set for the future
We are ready to scale up our efforts in metasearch, or federated search.
Simply put, we intend to make more science accessible to more people
than anyone has done before.