An International Partnership to Improve Access to Scientific and Technical Information Lorrie A Johnson United States Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information What is WorldWideScienceorg ID: 929655
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The WorldWideScience Alliance:
An International Partnership to Improve Access to Scientific and Technical Information
Lorrie A. JohnsonUnited States Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information
Slide2What is WorldWideScience.org?
Launch of WorldWideScience.org and Formation of the WorldWideScience Alliance
Search TechnologyMultilingual TranslationsIntegration of Multimedia and Scientific Research Data
Role in Public AccessFuture Directions
Slide3What is WorldWideScience.org?
A global science gateway comprised of over 100 national and international scientific databases and portals
More than 70 countries are represented
Slide4History and Formation of the WorldWideScience Alliance
WorldWideScience.org concept emanated from
Science.gov model (2006)Initial partnership between U.S. Department of Energy
and the British Library (2007)
Transition to multilateral governance (WorldWideScience Alliance) and ICSTI* sponsorship (2008)
*International Council for Scientific
and Technical Information
Slide5The Search Technology Behind WorldWideScience.org
Federated search technology
: Searches the “deep web,” which may not be searchable by major search engines
Performs a real-time, simultaneous search of participating databasesOvercomes barrier of needing to know about all resources
Little or no burden on database owners
Returns a consolidated, relevance-ranked results list
Links to original records at source databases, including full text if available
Integrates symbiotic technologies to further accelerate scientific discovery
Slide6A Measure of
WorldWideScience.org’s
Uniqueness
90%
“
Unique
”
33
sample queries launched
in Google, Google Scholar,
and
WorldWideScience.org
Similar
quantities in the
numbers of results, but
very
little
overlap
Among
the
“
top 50
”
results
from each search engine,
only
~10%
overlap – or
90%
uniqueness – in
WorldWideScience.org
results
Slide7WorldWideScience.org Topic Pages
Utilizing the power of Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines:
Millions of Topic Pages created
Exposes distributed WorldWideScience.org content to commercial search engines via site map protocols
Slide8Multilingual Translations
The
world’
s
first
“
one to many
”
and
“
many to one
”
multilingual translations tool in
science
Most automatic translations are
limited to translating from a single
language into another single
language
WorldWideScience.org partnering
with Microsoft
®
Translator enables
true multilingual
functionality
Slide9Multilingual Translations
Translating ten languages, with potential for more:
Arabic
Chinese
中文
German
Deutsch
English
Spanish
Español
French
Français
Japanese
日本語
Korean
한국어
Portuguese
Português
Russian
Русский
Slide10User enters search term and selects language
Slide11Query is translated into languages of all databases, searches are completed, and results are combined into a single, relevance-ranked results list
Slide12User translates results into their preferred language
Slide13Translated bibliographic record (English to German)
Slide14Multimedia and Speech Indexing
Multimedia (e.g., video, audio, images) represents a major emerging form of
scientific information
Multimedia presents special opportunities
and challenges – lack of written transcripts, minimal metadata, scientific/technical/medical terminology, lengthy videos (>1 hour)
Slide15Multimedia Search Results
Videos accessible
Slide16Search terms identified via snippets
Users can play the exact segments of the videos where search terms were spoken
Slide17Integration of Scientific Research Data
Scientific Research Data can be:
Difficult to find…. and Hard to navigate
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Slide18Results containing research and numeric datasets
Slide19A data result, showing the landing page for this dataset
Slide20Research Data, via the landing page, is accessible
Data can be viewed or downloaded
Slide21WorldWideScience.org and Public Access
Within the United States,
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Directive – February 2013 (addressed both scholarly publications and digital research data)U.S. Department of Energy released public access plan in July 2014, and launched the Public Access Gateway
for Energy & Science (PAGESBeta)
in August 2014
Slide22Public access results from the
U.S. Department of Energy’s PAGESBeta
Slide23Record from
PAGESBetaThe Accepted Manuscript will be available 12 months after publication
Slide24Public Access as a Growth Opportunity for WorldWideScience.org
Other U.S. federal agencies with public access plans include:
U.S. Department of AgricultureDepartment
of Defense
National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration
National
Institute of Standards and
Technology
Centers
for Disease
Control
Food
and Drug
Administration
Agency
for Healthcare Research and
Quality
National
Institutes of
Health
National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
AdministrationNational Science FoundationOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Canada: “Tri-agency Open Access Policy on Publications” released in February 2015United Kingdom: Research Councils’ open access policy, in place for several yearsOther countries in progress….
Slide25As public and open access content grows, new resources will be incorporated into WorldWideScience.org (scholarly publications and
digital research data)
With the extension of federated searching on an international scale, combined with multilingual translations, WorldWideScience.org enables access to a diverse array of scientific and technical content in traditional and non-traditional formats
Slide26Thank you!
WorldWideScience.org Operating Agent
Lorrie Johnson
JohnsonL@osti.gov