NBII NFAIS Technology Presentation

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Evolution of NBII Search-Based Technologies
Oct 24, 2002 Donna Roy USGS Center for
Biological Informatics
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Topics

• Introduction
• Vision and Hope..
• Early Search Tools
• Automated Search Tools such as BioBot
• Portal (My.NBII.Gov) Search Tools

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Topics

• Who am I?
• What do I do within NBII?

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The Vision.Provide infrastructure for data
discovery, visualization and interoperability of
biological information through the web on any
enabled device to facilitate research, resource
management, education, public awareness

• Types of Natural Language questions
• Are there resources or data for a particular
  species or issue in this location?
• Where are these resources in relationship to each
  other?
• What other resources would be pertinent to this??
  ?

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In the beginning
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Typical Search
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Lets do some meta tags
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NBII Meta tags
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Dramatic improvements
1438 hits
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Integrated results
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And a bit more evolution
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BioBot intelligent agent
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BioBot purpose

• Intelligent agent built specifically for the
  biological community
• Targets NBII collections as well as major search
  engines
• Stores queries and delivers results

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BioBot Components
Search

• -Distributed
• Bio-info sources
• Simple Search
• Boolean
• Integrated

BioBot Search
Profiling

• -Off-line delivery
• E-mail update
• Customizable
• Integrated

My NBII
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BioBot profiling
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Getting smarter
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Current Standards

• Dublin Core for Resource for Cataloging
• Extended for Biological and Web usage
• Vocabularies for biological information
• Thesauri for semantic searching
• Early in development/implementation
• FGDC for Geospatial data
• Followed Extensively, not intelligent (yet)
• OGC for Geospatial systems
• Implement for Data Discovery and Visualization,
  not robust enough for Data Interoperability

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Enter the world of portals.
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My.NBII.Gov allows for

• User customization look content
• Application integration
• Virtual communities document sharing, issues
• Improved searching of all document types
• Integrate diverse sources of information
• Improved web-site and content management
• Distributed management
• Extensive document user security
• Foundation to integrate with other Portals

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My.NBII.Gov Search Efforts
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My.NBII.Gov documents

• Allow for sharing of virtually any document type
• Can easily be made searchable to all or selected
  groups
• Enable browsing and topic specific searching
• Allows user uploading of documents

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My.NBII.Gov New BioBot search
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BioBot Search result
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My.NBII.Gov Advanced Search
Advanced Search The ability to search via
document properties (i.e. author) or folders
is available in the portal.
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Additional Portal searching
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Thank You
Questions/Comments
D_Roy_at_usgs.gov [phone]