WorldWideScience.org A Global Intersection of Science, Ethics, and Law

WorldWideScience.org

A Global Intersection of Science, Ethics, and Law

ICSTI Annual Conference 2012

Richard Boulderstone, British Library

WorldWideScience Alliance Chair

Walter Warnick, U.S. Department of Energy

WorldWideScience Alliance Operating Agent

» A Recap: What is WorldWideScience.org?

» Progress since 2007

     » Global comprehensiveness

     » Multilingual translations

     » Multimedia search

» New members

» Relevance to scientific integrity

» New strategic directions

Screenshot of WorldWideScience.org website

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'

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

Generally not searchable by major search engines

Deep Web

Multilingual Translations

The world’s first “one to many” and “many to one” multilingual translations tool in science.

• Ten languages – Arabic, Chinese, German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian

• WorldWideScience.org partnering with Microsoft® Translator enables true multilingual functionality.

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 ~2,600 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.

WorldWideScience Alliance New Members

Two New WorldWideScience Alliance Members

Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE)

DataCite

WWS.org’s Relevance to Scientific Integrity

The intersection of science, ethics, and law is…

Scientific Integrity

Intellectual Honesty

Accuracy

Fairness

Transparency

Responsibility

WWS.org’s Relevance to Scientific Integrity

• WWS’s 80+ databases are trusted, authoritative sources

• As national, or nationally-sanctioned databases, they have an implicit commitment to Scientific Integrity

WWS.org’s Relevance to Scientific Integrity

With its global search of 80+ databases, WWS…

• Distills and ranks the “best of the best”

• Serving as a “multiplier” for scientific integrity

What’s next for WorldWideScience.org?

The Next Frontier for WWS = “Big Data”

• How big is “big data”?

• Answer = 22,700,000 hits on Google

• But “big data” has two major problems

• It’s hard to find … and

• It’s hard to navigate … until now.

What’s next for WorldWideScience.org?

Federated Search of “Big Data”

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Data Collections Added to WorldWideScience.org

• BioGRID

Screenshot of BioGRID3.1 Publication Summary

Data Collections Added to WorldWideScience.org

• BioGRID

• DataCite

Screenshot of DataCite Content Service Beta

Data Collections Added to WorldWideScience.org

• BioGRID

• DataCite

• DNA Data Bank of Japan

Screenshot of DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)

Data Collections Added to WorldWideScience.org

• BioGRID

• DataCite

• DNA Data Bank of Japan

• DRYAD

Screenshot of DRYAD

Data Collections Added to WorldWideScience.org

• BioGRID

• DataCite

• DNA Data Bank of Japan

• DRYAD

• EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute

Screenshot of EMBL-EBI

Data Collections Added to WorldWideScience.org

• BioGRID

• DataCite

• DNA Data Bank of Japan

• DRYAD

• EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute

• ICSU World Data System

Screenshot of PANGAEA 

WWS Demo 1

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

WWS Demo 2

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

What's next for WorldWideScience?

Future Growth Opportunities for WWS.org

• Inclusion of additional scientific data collections

• Collaboration opportunities with entities such as DataCite and DataBib

• Increased membership and participation, both as database/source owners and as WWS Alliance members

• Growth of Open Access movement in UK, EU, US represents next potential expansion for WWS

What's next for WorldWideScience.org?

Inclusion of Open Access Resources

• Currently developing a prototype for federated searching of open access journals

• SOAJ – Science Open Access Journals – will be added to WWS later this year

WWS Demo 3

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

WorldWideScienceAlliance 

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