WorldWideScience.org Multilingual Search of Chemistry and Other Sciences ACS National Meeting

WorldWideScience.org

Multilingual Search of Chemistry and Other Sciences

ACS National Meeting

Fall 2012

Brian A. Hitson, Associate Director

Office of Scientific & Technical Information

U.S. Department of Energy

WorldWideScience Alliance

What Is OSTI?

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

Energy Policy Act of 2005

"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."

"…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)

Elsevier 21%

American Chemical Society 19%

American Physical Society 18%

American Institute of Physics 8%

Institute of Physics 7%

Wiley 6%

Springer 4%

Source: Web of Science

OSTI Products

For specific document or media types

Information Bridge

DOE Data Explorer

ScienceCinema

E-Print Network

DOepatents

ESTSC

DOE Green Energy

DOE R&D Accomplishments

Science Conference Proceedings

Energy Citation Database

Aggregator Products – federated search

Science Accelerator - Integrates key DOE databases Covers a range of R&D results (reports, patents, citations, e-prints, etc.)

Science.gov - Integrates 12 U.S. federal science agencies Databases and websites offer over 200 million pages of science information

WorldWideScience.org - 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

WorldWideScience.org

The Global Science Gateway

History and Collaboration

• 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

WorldWideScience.org searches the 'deep web'

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

• Generally not searchable by major search engines

Deep Web

WorldWideScience.org

The Global Science Gateway

"Databases Participating in WorldWideScience.org"

SciELO Brazil

Cornell University Library

Directory of Open Access Journals

KoreaScience

Basic Search Demo

Play Demonstration of WorldWideScience.org Basic Search (opens new window)

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

Translating ten languages, with potential for more

Arabic      

Chinese      

German     Deutsch

English 

Spanish      Español

French        Français

Japanese     

Korean        

Portuguese  Português

Russian        

Translations Demo

Play Demonstration of WorldWideScience.org Translations (opens new window)

Access to Multimedia-based Science & Technology

A Case Study for Enhanced Multimedia Search & Retrieval

ScienceCinema

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

• 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.

Multimedia Search Demo

Play Demonstration of WorldWideScience.org Multimedia Search (opens new window)

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

WorldWideScience Alliance

osti.gov

Contact WWS.org Operating Agent:

Brian Hitson, hitsonb@osti.gov

Lorrie Johnson, johnsonl@osti.gov

Translations

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Translator

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Research

ICSTI