WorldWideScience.org--Searching Global Science in Seconds--Dr. Walter Warnick SLA Presentation June 2008

Dr. Walter L. Warnick Director DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information Special Libraries Association Annual Conference Washington State Convention Center Seattle, WA June 16, 2008 WorldWideScience.org – Searching Global Science in Seconds

To advance science and sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people OSTI Mission

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!

Information – it feeds discovery A key piece of science discovery … Discovery Research Facilities High Performance Computing Scientists Information

Knowledge is contagious, and it’s our job to make sure everyone “catches” it! Thought Transfer To that end, we have studied the contact rate and found that researchers will “catch” an idea faster if the contact rate between scientists is accelerated

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 Discovery path of US and UK authors The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Measured The Spread of Knowledge about Feynman Diagrams

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

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 Paths of Acceleration The Spread of Knowledge Can Be Accelerated

… we must dispel the misperception that popular search engines are already doing the job But before we can accelerate the sharing of knowledge …

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

Web is still young and will certainly hold surprises as it evolves Just as another well-known transformational technology held surprises … 1903 2008 Web Is Transformational Technology for Sharing Knowledge

Google is capitalizing on this early era of Web technology and is hugely successful, powering more than half the world’s searching But we must remember that we are just in the beginning of this transformation. Further technological transformations may very well eclipse today’s search technology! A new, promising technology now emerging: federated search Eclipsing Current Search Technology

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 Deep Web databases Surface Web

50 million pages of federal science information from 13 U.S. science agencies Key DOE databases Our most recent federated search engine is WorldWideScience.org – the global science gateway OSTI has recognized the need to bridge this gap; our emerging solution is “federated” search Interfaces similar to Google Under the hood, NOT like Google 200 million pages of global science information NEW! Celebrating 5 th Anniversary Celebrating 1 st Anniversary

In January 2007, Dr. Raymond Orbach, DOE Under Secretary for Science, and Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, signed a Statement of Intent to partner for searchable global science gateway. From handshake to intercontinental alliance On June 12, 2008, officials gathered in Korea to formally establish a multilateral alliance that will govern the rapidly growing gateway to the world’s research findings

The WorldWideScience Alliance was formalized on June 12, 2008, in Seoul, Korea, by officials from 13 organizations representing 38 countries. WorldWideScience.org is the online gateway to science information issued from nations around the world. The signing ceremony was the culminating event at the ICSTI 2008 General Assembly, hosted by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information.

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

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) 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

Recent and future enhancements include clustering, alerts, and translation capabilities

What Is WorldWideScience.org?

Results!

Clusters!

Wikipedia!

EurekAlert

Relevancy Ranking

Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org Denmark India Chile Colombia Germany France Finland Cameroon Congo, DR Cote d’lvoire Egypt Ghana Japan Canada Brazil Australia Argentina Algeria Botswana Burkina Faso Ethiopia

Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org (cont.) United States United Kingdom Spain South Africa The Netherlands New Zealand Kenya Lesotho Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Malawi Mauritius Nigeria Senegal Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Korea Sweden Portugal

Founding Alliance Members

Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) – Canada

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) – Finland

Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) – France

TIB – German National Library of Science and Technology - Germany

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) - Japan

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) – Korea

Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Spain

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – South Africa

African Journals Online (AJOL) – Representing 24 African countries

British Library – United Kingdom

Science.gov Alliance – United States

International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)

Chair – Richard Boulderstone, British Library

Deputy Chair – Pam Bjornson, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information

Treasurer – Tae-Sul Seo, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information

Ex-Officio Member – Walter Warnick, WorldWideScience.org Operating Agent, U.S. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Ex-Officio Member – Herbert Gruttemeier, ICSTI President, French Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique

At-Large Member – Yvonne Halland, Strategic Information Resources Coordinator, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

Alliance Executive Board

Current WorldWideScience.org Sources

African Journals Online

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)

Directory of Open Access Jornals (Sweeden)

DEFF Global E Prints (Denmark)

DEFF Research Database (Denmark)

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

J-EAST (Japan)

J-STAGE (Japan)

J-STORE (Japan)

Journal@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

Here’s How It Works With just one click, your query will be sent from our server in Oak Ridge, TN, to databases around the world. Those databases will return results in real time, that will then be relevancy-ranked and returned to your desktop all in a matter of seconds.

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.