Dr' Walter L' Warnick

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Advancing Scientific Global Discovery
Dr. Walter L. Warnick Director DOE Office of
Scientific and Technical Information
DTIC 2008 ConferenceApril 8, 2008Keynote Address
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OSTI Mission
To advance science and sustain technological
creativity by making RD findings available and
useful to DOE researchers and the American people
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Science Progresses as Knowledge Is Shared
OSTI Corollary If the sharing of knowledge is
accelerated, discovery is accelerated
Profound implications for all of us in the
information business!
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A Key Piece of Science Discovery
Information feeds discovery
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The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Measured
The Spread of Knowledge about Feynman Diagrams
Discovery path of US and UK authors
From The Power of a Good Idea quantitative
modeling of the spread of ideas from
epidemiological models, Luis M. A. Bettencourt,
Ariel Cintron-Arias, Carlos Castillo-Chavez
David Kaiser, May 2005
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The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Modeled
Path of Best Trajectory
From Report for the Office of Scientific and
Technical Information Population Modeling of the
Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields
Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Carlos Castillo-Chavez,
David Kaiser, David E. Wojick, October, 2006
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The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Accelerated
Paths of Acceleration
Bettencourt, Castillo-Chavez, Kaiser, Wojick
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OSTIs Creed
Knowledge is contagious, and its our job to make
sure everyone catches it easier and quicker!
To that end, we intend to study factors that
determine the rate at which researchers will
catch an idea if the contact rate between
scientists is increased
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But before we can accelerate the sharing of
knowledge
we must dispel the misperception that popular
search engines are already doing the job
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Web Is Transformational Technology for Sharing
Knowledge
Web is still young, and will certainly hold
surprises as it evolves
Just as another well-known transformational
technology held surprises
2008
1903
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Eclipsing Current Search Technology
But we must remember that we are just in the
beginning of this transformation. Further
technological transformations may very well
eclipse todays search technology!
Google is capitalizing on this early era of Web
technology and is hugely successful, powering
more than half the worlds searching
A new, promising technology now emerging
federated search
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Much of Science Is Non-Googleable
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
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
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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 sitemap protocol solution,
federated search places no burden on the database
owners
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OSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap
our emerging solution is federated search
50 million pages of federal science information
from 13 U.S. science agencies (including DoD
DTIC databases are part of Science.gov)
Key DOE databases
Our most recent federated search engine is
WorldWideScience.org the global science gateway
(including DoD DTIC databases are part of
Science.gov)
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International partnership kicks off global
science gateway
In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, DOE 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.
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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
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What Is WorldWideScience.org?

• A federation of the leading science portals
  sponsored by the governments and national
  institutions of 44 countries
• A quantity of science (more than 200 million
  pages from every inhabited continent) searched
  comparable to that searchable via Google, with
  the bulk of the science being non-Googleable
• A contrast to content searched by Google
  WWS.org content tends to be scholarly
• A breakthrough in content enabled by breakthrough
  technology
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Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org
Cameroon
Egypt
Denmark
Congo, DR
Cote dlvoire
Chile
Colombia
India
France
Japan
Finland
Germany
Ghana
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Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org
(cont.)
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Kenya
Lesotho
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Malawi
Mauritius
Korea
Sudan
Sweden
South Africa
Swaziland
Senegal
Spain
Nigeria
United States
United Kingdom
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
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Current WorldWideScience.org Sources

• J-EAST (Japan)
• J-STAGE (Japan)
• J-STORE (Japan)
• Journal_at_rchive (Japan)
• Korea Science (Korea)
• 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)
• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
  Publications Register
• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Research
  Register

• African Journals Online
• Article_at_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)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
• Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC) (United
  Kingdom)
• Indian Academy of Sciences
• Indian Institute of Science Eprints
• Indian Institute of Science Theses
  Dissertations
• Indian Medlars Centre

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The stage Is Set for the Future
We are ready to scale up our efforts in federated
search. Simply put, we intend to make more
science accessible to more people than anyone
has done before.