Pikas Developments In Sci Tech Search Web Search U 08

Developments in Sci-Tech Search Christina K. Pikas [email_address] R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Themes in Science & Technology
-- And their impact on search
Repositories, digitization
Computer processing of newly available data
Social Computing Technologies

Repositories - Digitization
More full text, more data, in a useful and useable format
Word and page-level access to old gray literature
Enables discovery
Not necessarily access

Aluka
African Plants Collection
Type specimens from European, American, and African herbaria
Useable browser
Licensed a la JSTOR

Biodiversity Heritage Library
Digitization of taxonomic literature
Open access
Good metadata, neat interface, entity extraction for taxonomic terms

Google Books & Engineering Data
Others discuss using Amazon or Google Books to locate information within books – on the shelf….…but have you considered using these for gray lit for engineering questions?

Examples: how much can I improve fuel efficiency by making my car more aerodynamic? What is the average drag coefficient of a modern passenger car?

Maybe the customer should just consider changing the mirrors?

Computer Processing
Wealth of available full text has enabled new work in search and presentation
Semantic Markup
Royal Society of Chemistry Project Prospect
Chemical Search
eMolecules, PubChem, ChemSpider, SureChem
Deep Indexing – access to tables and images
Illustrata, BioText
Usable tables/graphs

Project Prospect
Identification of compounds, gene ontology and subject terms within articles
Structure search in articles

Chemical Search
Ubiquitous structure search
Using identifiers other than CAS-RN
IUPAC International Chemical Identifier, InChI
Simplified molecular input line entry specification, SMILES
Empirical Formula: C 8 H 11 NO 2 (in Hill order) Systematic Name : 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-diol SMILES:Oc1ccc(cc1O)CCN InChI: InChI =1/C8H11NO2/c9-4-3-6-1-2-7(10)8(11)5-6/h1-2,5,10-11H,3-4,9H2 InChIKey: VYFYYTLLBUKUHU - UHFFFAOYAA (I’d probably just call it dopamine – from ChemSpider.com)

Deep Indexing
Not a new concept (maybe 1950s or 1960s)
Newly interesting due to advances in algorithms and availability of electronic full text
Examples
Automatic citation linking
Table and image search
Code searching in Safari

Useful/Useable Tables and Graphs
Knovel, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, and other ebook vendors actually let you get usable data from handbooks

Social Computing Technologies
Scientists are using blogs, wikis, RSS, video sharing… for science
They are
For personal use
For lab work or collaboration
For storage and retrieval of results
For working with non-scientists

ResearchBlogging.org
For people who blog about peer-reviewed research in a thoughtful way
Site is being revamped

Basic Concepts Posts
Many scientist bloggers post “basic concepts” posts in which they provide a primer in an area of their expertise.
See a list at: http://tinyurl.com/2pn9cc

Videos
Journal of Visualized Experiments, JoVE
SciVee

In the End
Lots more content
Older but newly available
Some locked up
Some new and user generated
Neat visualizations, information retrieval experiments, and ways to interact
Be creative in finding, too!

Presented by: Christina K. Pikas R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [email_address] http://christinaslibraryrant.blogspot.com

Photo Credits Blondyimp, Flickr WINGFIN ANCHOVY, Pterengraulis atherinoides, Encyclopedia of Life Sideritis hirsuta, Meerburgh, N. (1775). Afbeeldingen van zeldzaame gewassen. Te Leyden: Johannes le Mair. From Biodiversity Heritage Library, http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/533 Richard, A., Lefevre, C.T., Petit,A., & Quartin Dillon, L.R. (c1847-1851). Tentamen floræ Abyssinicæ: seu, Enumeratio plantarum hucusque in plerisque Abyssiniæ provinciis detectarum et præcipue a beatis doctoribus Richard Quartin Dillon et Antonio Petit (annis 1838-1843) lectarum. Paris: Arthus Bertrand. From Biodiversity Heritage Library, http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/334 (plate 81) Barleria mackenii Hook.f. [family ACANTHACEAE] .Fitch, W.H.(1870) Curtis's Botanical Magazine. From Aluka, http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.AP.VISUAL.KCUR00000011&pgs=

Granger, R.A. (1995) Fluid Mechanics. New York: Courier Dover Publications. P.773 Hashimoto,T., Omote, M. and Maruoka, K. (2008) 6,6-Substituent effect of BINOL in bis-titanium chiral Lewis acid catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones. Org. Biomol. Chem., 6, 2263 – 2265. DOI: 10.1039/b804987d Deep sea octopus.(NOAA). Downloaded from http://www.neptunecanada.ca/gallery/index.html (8/11/2008) Lab Cat. (2007) Basic Concepts: What are solutions? http://cdavies.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/basic-concepts-what-are-solutions/ Multiwavelength M8. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Collection. NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). http://tinyurl.com/5vx46o

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