Science.gov @ Five YearsInterLab ’07

Los Alamos, New MexicoOctober 1–3, 2007

Valerie S. Allen, MSLISU.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Informationallenv@osti.gov 00-44-00-10-07

Science.gov is all of these things

• USA.Gov for Science cross-agency portal

• Large scale collaboration between major science agencies

• Wealth of information located by term or topic

• Unique search capability that searches the deep Web

• Traditional search capability indexing over 1,800 sites

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The Science.gov Alliance 17 organizations from 13 agencies

• Department of AgricultureNational Agricultural LibraryUnited States Forest Service

• Department of CommerceNational Institute of Standards and TechnologyNational Technical Information Service

• Department of DefenseDefense Technical Information Center

• Department of EducationNational Library of Education

• Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information

• Department of Health and Human ServicesFood and Drug AdministrationNational Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine

• Department of InteriorUnited States Geological Survey

National Biological Information Infrastructure

• Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of Environmental Information

Office of Research and Development

• Library of Congress

• National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationScientific and Technical Information Program

• National Science Foundation

• United States Government Printing Office

• With additional support from the National Archives and Records Administration

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Breaking News!Breaking News!

Website by committee actually works!

Why?

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Significant events— a perfect storm

• USA.gov (formerly FirstGov)

• Two workshops on concept and infrastructure issues

• CENDI backbone of established relationships

• The ease of the technology

• Small amount of early seed money for cross-agency initiatives

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Some features added since version 1.0

• Subscribe to weekly Alerts identifying newly added items

• Email results to yourself or a colleague

• Sort by date, author, title in addition to source

• Refine your original search

• Begin viewing results while more are returned

• Multiple algorithms for relevancy used

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Surface Web and Deep Web— 2005

• Size: Estimated to be 8+

billion (Google) to 45 billion

(About.com) web pages

• Static, crawlable

web pages

• Large amounts of

unfiltered information

• Limited to what is easily

found by search engines

• Size: Estimated to be 5 to

500 times larger (BrightPlanet)

• Dynamically generated

content that lives inside

databases

• High-quality, managed,

subject-specific content

• Growing faster than

surface web (BrightPlanet)

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Agencies are responsible for their agency information

• NTIS developed the original catalog

• CENDI Secretariat now maintains the content catalog

• Agency content managers submit and edit their information via a form

• By Topic sites are indexed nightly by USGS

• Real time search of content in large databases

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Content Guiding Principles

• Science.gov presents select, web-based government science

information

• The focus is on subject rather than government organization

• The audience is the science aware citizen, including educators,

students, professional researchers, and members of the general

public with an interest in science and technology

• The sites are selected and cataloged with the user in mind

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* Based on number of URLs in Web site catalogue as of April 2006 Note: DOE also contributes over 21 percent of the 50 million pages in Science.gov search

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Science.gov Contributing Agencies

DOD3%

NASA7%

NSF8%

USDA16%

DOC10%

HHS13%

GPO1%

EPA7%

ED1%

DOI10%

DOE24%

U.S. invests approximately $8.5 billion in energy-related research and development each year

• OSTI collects, preserves, disseminates, and leverages DOE’s

scientific and technical information resulting from this investment

• OSTI collaborates within DOE to develop and maintain an

efficient and effective access and delivery system

• OSTI partners with other organizations to facilitate national and

international cooperation and information exchange

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OSTI Partnerships include but are not limited to

• STIP

• Science.gov Alliance

• CENDI

• ETDE

• ICSTI

• WorldWideScience Alliance

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Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org

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www.osti.gov

Science.govValerie S. AllenOffice of Program Integration865•576•3469allenv@osti.gov

Science.gov ContentKathy ChambersOffice of Program Integration865•576•8855chambersk@osti.gov

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