Science.gov @ Five Years InterLab

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Science.gov _at_ Five YearsInterLab 07Los
Alamos, New MexicoOctober 13, 2007

• Valerie S. Allen, MSLIS
• U.S. Department of Energy
• Office of Scientific and Technical Information
• allenv_at_osti.gov

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

• OSTI collects, preserves, disseminates, and
  leverages DOEs 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.gov Valerie S. Allen Office of Program
Integration 8655763469 allenv_at_osti.gov
Science.gov Content Kathy Chambers Office of
Program Integration 8655768855 chambersk_at_osti.go
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