Science.gov @ Five YearsInterLab ’07
Los Alamos, New MexicoOctober 1–3, 2007
Valerie S. Allen, MSLISU.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical [email protected] 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•[email protected]
Science.gov ContentKathy ChambersOffice of Program Integration865•576•[email protected]
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