WorldWideScience.org

Brian A. Hitson, Associate DirectorOffice of Scientific and Technical InformationU.S. Department of EnergyWorldWideScience Alliance

Multilingual Search of Chemistry and Other

Sciences

ACS National Meeting Fall 2012

What Is OSTI?

“The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain within the Department publicly available collections of scientific and technical information resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department.”

Energy Policy Act of 2005

OSTI is a program within DOE’s Office of Science, with a corporate responsibility for ensuring access to DOE R&D results.

Since 1947!

Public access to unclassified, unlimited Restricted access to classified and sensitive

"…the Department’s role as a source of information…is unique and indispensable in the advancement of energy technologies.”-- from Quadrennial Technology Review press release "Our success should be measured not when a project is completed or an experiment concluded, but when scientific and technical information is disseminated…” -- from 2011 Department of Energy Strategic Plan

DOE-Affiliated Articles by Publisher (2007-2012)

Source: Web of Science

Elsevier 21%

American Chemical Society19%

American Physical Society18%

American Institute of Physics

8%

Institute of Physics7%

Wiley6%

Springer4%

OSTI Products For specific document or media types

Aggregator Products – federated search Integrates key DOE databases

Covers a range of R&D results (reports, patents, citations, e-prints, etc.)

Integrates >70 nations Provides over 400 million pages of science information from databases and portals worldwide;

performs multilingual search across 10 languages; translation of English content for non-English speakers and non-English content for English speakers

Integrates 12 U.S. federal science agenciesDatabases and websites offer over 200 million pages of science information

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

History and Collaboration

Where science is hundreds of times larger than the “surface web”

Generally not searchable by major search engines

Deep Web

WorldWideScience.orgsearches the ‘deep web’

Basic Search Demo

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Multilingual 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.

Multilingual Translations

ArabicChinese 中文German DeutschEnglishSpanish Espa olFrench FrançaisJapanese 日本語Korean 한국어Portuguese PortuguệsRussian Pyccкий

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Translating ten languages, with potential for more:

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Translations Demo

A Case Study for Enhanced Multimedia Search & Retrieval

http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema/

Access to Multimedia-basedScience & Technology

Partnership between OSTI and Microsoft Research. Launched in February 2011; searches ~1,800 multimedia files. Utilizes Microsoft Research Audio Video Indexing System (MAVIS). Enables searching of digitized spoken content. Users can search for precise term within video and be directed to the

exact point in the video where the term was spoken.

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Multimedia Search Demo

What’s next for WorldWideScience.org?

Federated search of “big data”• BioGRID• DataCite• DNA Data Bank of Japan• DRYAD• EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute• ICSU World Data System

Contact WWS.org Operating Agent:Brian Hitson, hitsonb@osti.govLorrie Johnson, johnsonl@osti.gov