Advancing Science, Advancing Discovery--STIP Working Meeting April 23 2008

Advancing Science, Accelerating Discovery Walt Warnick, Ph.D. Director U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information 2008 STIP Working Meeting Santa Fe, New Mexico April 23, 2008

Thanks to Los Alamos National Laboratory & Santa Fe!

Thanks to special guests!

And welcome everyone

Making the Case for Science Thanks to Gloria Zamora for

OSTI Corollary

Premise

Sharing knowledge (our R&D findings) advances science

Corollary

Accelerating the sharing of knowledge speeds the advancement of science (discovery)

“ 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 Frontier http://www.nsf.gov/about/history/vbush1945.htm Government Role Recognized Set Foundation for DOE’s STI Program

OSTI & STIP 60+ years later

OSTI MISSION To 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.”

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

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

New Responsibilities

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

New partners/ new synergy

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

Multiplier factor

Most Science Info Is in the Deep Web

Federated Search 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 Useful when full bibliographical control is not feasible Deep Web databases Surface Web

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

WorldWideScience.org allows 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-known sources of highly valuable science WorldWideScience.org was launched in June 2007 and now searches 32 portals from 44 countries More than 200 million pages from every inhabited continent!

Innovations in the Works

Domain recognition

Grade-level stratification

Multi-lingual translations

Spell check

SBIR-generated capabilities

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)

Science Education Portal 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 Supports the America COMPETES Act www.scienceeducation.gov in the works!

Web 2.0 at OSTI