# Presentation: 758756

## The Search for Hidden Treasure:

**R&D Results in the Deep Web**
***Karen J. Spence***
***www.osti.gov***
***October 2004***

**Office of Scientific and Technical Information**
**U.S. Department of Energy**

## The Partnership Continues

## OSTI’s Corporate Position

**	****OSTI’s Departmental Program ****	****responsibility,**
** ****A vast information resource that does not ****	****exist anywhere else, and**
** ****OSTI’s innovative information technology ****	****applications.**
** ****Strategic use of this corporate position has ****	****resulted in providing the public state-of-the-****	****art resources for finding DOE information ****	****through *****GPO Access*****.**

**OSTI’s Corporate Position**

## Electronic Services Partnership

**Then and Now**

**1998**
** ****23,323 full-text documents**
** ****23,323 bibliographic records**
** ****50,000 downloads annually**
** ****EDB data format**
** ****Partnership Web products**
** ****	****Reports Bibliographic ****	****Database**
** ****	****Information Bridge**

**2004**
** ****85,000 full-text documents**
** ****2.2 million bibliographic records**
** ****400,000 downloads annually**
** ****Dublin-Core data format**
** ****Partnership Web products**
** ****DOE Information Bridge**
** ****Energy Citations Database**
** ****Additional Ancillary Services**
** ****GrayLIT Network**
**	****~ 343,000 Federal documents**
** ****Federal R&D Project Summaries**
**	****~ 500,000 Federal records**

**Advancing Public Access to Science through Federal Agency Collaboration**

## Customized Data Services for FDLP

**OSTI is pleased to offer new technology to customize services to meet the individual needs of the FDLP.**
** ****Data can be delivered in customized formats**
** ****Data can be delivered in specific subject ****	****areas**
** ****Data can be provided to meet specific library ****	****needs**

**Advancing Our Partnership**

## What is Science.gov?

**An E-gov success!**

- With **National Archives and Records Administration **Support

## Science.gov Is Also...

** ****	****A cross-agency gateway to one of the ****	****government’s most valuable resources – its ****	****R&D**
** ****	****An Alliance of 17 information offices from 12 ****	****major science agencies**
** ****	****A Web portal indexing over 1,700 resources**
** ****	****A search tool, developed by OSTI, for 30 deep ****	****Web databases **
**	****A creative way to maximize the U.S. return on ****	****its R&D investment**

## Behind the Scenes...

** ****To capitalize on new ****	****technology**
** ****Vision: a new science ****	****information infrastructure**

** ****DOE convened ****	****principals**

## Shared Premise

** ****Web is the tool of choice**
** ****Each science agency ****	****	****has information & ****	****services to fulfill its ****	****	****	****mission **
** ****	****Science is not bounded ****	****by organization or ****	****geography**
** ****Interagency collaboration ****	****is needed**

## Science.gov Alliance is Born

**Interagency science portal endorsed**
**Extraordinary voluntary collaboration - ****without appropriated funding or legislative mandate! **
**Supports e-Gov initiative**
**Organizes major and often hard-to-find information collections**

## Agency “Pot Luck” 

**Agencies brought to the Internet table their unique information specialties**
**Arranged resources on a simple Web site**
**Powered by impressive collaborative intellectual work,  computer systems, and software**** **

## First “.gov” Street in America 

**Oak Ridge, Tennessee, renames roadway**

- Nov. 7, 2003

## Science.gov 1.0: Launched 12/02

**Initial Features:**
** ****Browse by Subject (1700 sites); ****	****broader/narrower categories listed**
** ****Website search **
**	****Deep Web search full content of 30 ****	****databases using Distributed Explorit**
** ****Search results sorted by database with ****	****links to the websites**
** ****Special section on Science Internships ****	****and Fellowships; special link with logo to ****	****Kids.gov; Featured Sites**

## Science.gov 2.0: 

**Launched 5/11/04**

**Current Features:**
** ****QuickRank – a title-based mechanism for ****	****quickly ranking returns based on a two-step ****	****relevancy algorithm**
** ****Results filtered/sorted by relevancy; can be ****	****separated by database **
** ****Fielded or Advanced Search option; Author, ****	****Title, Full Record, Data Range**
** ****Expansion of the number of databases ****	****searchable at one time: 10 databases expanded ****	****to 30**
** ****Search page organized by broad subject**
** “****MORE” button for additional returns displayed**
** ****	****Regulations section provides metasearch of CFR ****	****and the Federal Register**

## Science.gov 3.0: 

** ****	****MetaRank – a metadata-based ranking of returns ****	****based on a complex relevancy algorithm; may ****	****sort returns by database, by QuickRank, by ****	****MetaRank**
** ****	****Fielded search will be integrated into the ****	****Advanced Search**
** ****	****Boolean search will be integrated into the ****	****Advanced Search**
** ****	****Distributed Alerts, a site-wide alert system for ****	****notifying users of new material added in their ****	****areas of interest; slated as first new function for ****	****FY05**

**Science.gov 3.0: **
**Proposed Launch Summer 2005**

## Proposed New Features:

** ****Deep Rank (full-text ****	****relevancy ranking)**
** ****	****Grid computing; ****	****parallel processing**

**Science.gov 4.0: **
**Proposed Launch 2006**

## Yahoo/Google Collaboration

** ****Partnership with commercial ****	****	****search engines**
** ****Objective of DOE R&D visibility**
** ****Success of project demonstrated ****	****through usage statistics**

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## Rolling Window Data Service

** ****DOE and GPO Started the Rolling ****	****Window Data Service as a Pilot ****	****Project**
** ****Customized Data Service**
** ****Ready to Broaden Availability**

## Rolling Window Data Service

** ****Customized Email Alerts**
** ****Single Window Requests**
** ****	****Configurable Date Ranges**
** ****	****XML, HTML, and Counts of Records ****	****Matching Specified Criteria**

**Functions/Features**

**Rolling Window Data Service**

##  Advertise “What’s New” in Your 	Library

** ****Capture Metadata to Include in ****	****Your Library Catalogs**
** ****Other**

**Uses**

**Rolling Window Data Service**

## Log In Screen

## Manage Profile Screen

## Email Alerts Screen

## Single Window Request Screen

## Status

** ****URL: ****www.osti.gov/window**
** ****Registration Required**
** ****Initial Username **_**Guest**_
**	****           ****Password **_**Anonymous**_
** ****Contact: Susan Tackett, DOE                                                                      ****	****Office of Scientific & Technical Information                                                             ****	****Email:  tacketts@osti.gov**

**Status**

**Rolling Window Data Service**