ETDE – A Catalyst for Energy Technology Breakthroughs: Bringing the Researcher Closer to Research Lisbon, Portugal 5 July 2007 Brian A. Hitson Chair, IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange (U.S. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Advances in energy technology depend on the diffusion of knowledge Isaac Newton expressed this thought most eloquently in 1676, when he wrote: “ If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

Sequential diffusion may take months to years! A B C

A New Era of Innovation Accelerating the sharing of knowledge means science progresses faster, compressing decades to years, years to months, and months to days.

Pre-ETDE “A Bilateral World” Inefficient Costly Duplicative

ETDE Model – Multilateral Cooperation: Efficient Comprehensive Original “One Stop” Concept Common Database

Efficient

Comprehensive

Original “One Stop” Concept

Technical Evolution of the ETDE Model Commercial information vendors - Sole Access Channel 1987 Bib records, non-electronic full text 1999 2003 Increasing amounts of electronic full-text 2004 2005 2006

ETDE’s Strategic Evolution – A History of Partnering/Collaboration INIS Support to G8 Developing Country Goals IEA NEET Initiative – “Plus 5” Countries European Commission Support Other IEA Cooperation Clean Coal Centre IEA publications Brazil China India Mexico South Africa

INIS

Support to G8 Developing Country Goals

IEA NEET Initiative – “Plus 5” Countries

European Commission Support

Other IEA Cooperation

Clean Coal Centre

IEA publications

Current and Future Information Landscape – Challenges and Solutions Challenges The “Google” Perception – Everything is “there” Reality of surface web versus deep web “Members Only” Access Economics of producing bibliographic records Proliferation of distributed portals – maintaining an identity Multiplicity of languages

Challenges

The “Google” Perception – Everything is “there”

Reality of surface web versus deep web

“Members Only” Access

Economics of producing bibliographic records

Proliferation of distributed portals – maintaining an identity

Multiplicity of languages

Solutions Balance strategic partnerships and strategic individualism Maintain a niche – specialty Search and be searched – but require attribution Current and Future Information Landscape – Challenges and Solutions Continued

Solutions

Balance strategic partnerships and strategic individualism

Maintain a niche – specialty

Search and be searched – but require attribution

Solutions Adopt technology to overcome usage limitations Automated user authentication tools Sophisticated “on the fly” translations tools Continually strive to bring researchers closer to research Integrate numeric data access into full text Accommodate video and audio Integrate resources into “collaboratories” Current and Future Information Landscape – Challenges and Solutions Continued

Solutions

Adopt technology to overcome usage limitations

Automated user authentication tools

Sophisticated “on the fly” translations tools

Continually strive to bring researchers closer to research

Integrate numeric data access into full text

Accommodate video and audio

Integrate resources into “collaboratories”

Conclusion Contact: Brian Hitson, Chair Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE) [email_address] +1-865-576-1199 ETDE Contributes to Breakthroughs in Energy Technology