# Presentation: 146426

## ETDE – A Catalyst for Energy Technology Breakthroughs:

*Bringing the Researcher Closer to Research*
- Lisbon, Portugal
- 5 July 2007
- Brian A. Hitson
- Chair, IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange
- (U.S. DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

## Advances in energy technology depend on the diffusion of knowledge

**Isaac Newton expressed this thought most eloquently in 1676, when he wrote:**
*** “******If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”***

**Advances in energy technology depend on the diffusion of knowledge**

## Sequential diffusion may take months to years!

**Sequential diffusion may take months to years!**

## A New Era of Innovation

**Accelerating the sharing of knowledge means science progresses faster, compressing decades to years, years to months, and months to days.**

**Notes:**
2. Starting with a search using the Easy Search option screen – trying biofuels or biodiesel as the search 

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3. Next, showing the search results screen – highlight number received (over 5000), and the layout showing titles and dates, and also the links and the PDF icons on the left 

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4. Then try a more specific search using options available on the Advanced Search screen. Specific search example is looking for Switchgrass or wood in the title; other options available for searching are by author subject, research organization, dates, etc.

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5. Here are the search results from that search 

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6. To next illustrate what a full record looks like, you can click on one of these records (not shown on the specific screen above, but is down further)  Citation example for ‘Fuel handbook – Wood and other renewable fuels’  from Sweden
Note the abstract in English and the subject indexing, among other features.

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7. Clicking on a PDF icon you can then get to the full text; in most cases, you can search it as well as view, save or print it

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8. Switching subject areas, look at Hydrogen and Fuel Cells – almost 10,000 matches there

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13. Solar water heating seems to be of some interest, especially finding lower cost alternatives?
Search is on “water heating”

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14. Example showing a mobile solar water heater – where the author is from South Africa  point – many of the journals have input from researchers globally, not just from our member countries. Thus, there are likely to be examples from countries with similar conditions as South Africa.

## Pre-ETDE “A Bilateral World”

**Pre-ETDE “A Bilateral World”**

- Inefficient

- Costly

- Duplicative

## ETDE Model – Multilateral Cooperation:

- Efficient
- Comprehensive
- Original “One Stop” Concept

## Technical Evolution of the ETDE Model

**Technical Evolution of the ETDE Model**

## ETDE’s Strategic Evolution – A History of Partnering/Collaboration

- INIS
- Support to G8 Developing Country Goals
- IEA NEET Initiative – “Plus 5” Countries
- European Commission Support
- Other IEA Cooperation
*Clean Coal Centre*
*IEA publications*

## Current and Future Information Landscape – Challenges and Solutions

- Challenges
*The “Google” Perception – Everything is “there” *
*Reality of surface web versus deep web*
*“**Members Only” Access*
*Economics of producing bibliographic records*
*Proliferation of distributed portals – maintaining an identity*
*Multiplicity of languages*

## Solutions
Balance strategic partnerships and strategic individualism
Maintain a niche – specialty
Search and be searched – but require attribution

*Balance strategic partnerships and strategic individualism*
*Maintain a niche – specialty*
*Search and be searched – but require attribution*

**Current and Future Information Landscape – Challenges and Solutions Continued**

## Solutions
Adopt technology to overcome usage limitations
Automated user authentication tools
Sophisticated “on the fly” translations tools
Continually strive to bring researchers closer to research
Integrate numeric data access into full text
Accommodate video and audio
Integrate resources into “collaboratories”

*Adopt technology to overcome usage limitations*
- Automated user authentication tools
- Sophisticated “on the fly” translations tools
*Continually strive to bring researchers closer to research*
- Integrate numeric data access into full text
- Accommodate video and audio
- Integrate resources into “collaboratories”

**Current and Future Information Landscape – Challenges and Solutions Continued**

## Conclusion

- Contact:Brian Hitson, ChairEnergy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE)_[hitsonb@osti.gov](mailto:hitsonb@osti.gov)_+1-865-576-1199

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