What is Science_gov

Science.gov @ Five Years InterLab ’07 Los Alamos, New Mexico October 1–3, 2007 Valerie S. Allen, MSLIS U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information allenv@osti.gov 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 00-44-01-10-07 The Science.gov Alliance 17 organizations from 13 agencies • Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library United States Forest Service • Department of Interior United States Geological Survey National Biological Information Infrastructure • Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology National Technical Information Service • Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Information Office of Research and Development • Department of Defense Defense Technical Information Center • Library of Congress • Department of Education National Library of Education • Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information • National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Program • Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine • National Science Foundation • United States Government Printing Office • With additional support from the National Archives and Records Administration 00-44-02-10-07 00-44-03-10-07 Breaking News! Website by committee actually works! Why? 00-44-04-10-07 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 00-44-05-10-07 00-44-06-10-07 00-44-07-10-07 00-44-08-10-07 00-44-09-10-07 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 00-44-10-10-07 00-44-11-10-07 00-44-12-10-07 Surface Web and Deep Web— 2005 • Size: Estimated to be 5 to 500 times larger (BrightPlanet) • Dynamically generated content that lives inside databases • High-quality, managed, subject-specific content • 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 • Growing faster than surface web (BrightPlanet) 00-44-13-10-07 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 00-44-14-10-07 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 00-44-15-10-07 Science.gov Contributing Agencies USDA 16% DOC 10% DOD 3% NSF 8% DOE 24% NASA 7% HHS 13% GPO 1% EPA 7% ED 1% DOI 10% * 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 00-44-16-10-07 U.S. invests approximately $8.5 billion in energyrelated 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 00-44-17-10-07 00-44-18-10-07 OSTI Partnerships include but are not limited to • STIP • Science.gov Alliance • CENDI • ETDE • ICSTI • WorldWideScience Alliance 00-44-19-10-07 00-44-20-10-07 Current National Partners in WorldWideScience.org 00-44-21-10-07 www.osti.gov Science.gov Valerie S. Allen Office of Program Integration 865•576•3469 allenv@osti.gov Science.gov Content Kathy Chambers Office of Program Integration 865•576•8855 chambersk@osti.gov 00-44-22-10-07