STI

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STI Innovation
A Mission with a Vision
Annual STIP Meeting, April 26-27, 2006
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Welcome back
and welcome Mary Case
A big thanks to Kathy Macal and Argonne
Name this site!
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Our Mission
Two ways we fulfill our mission
STI
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Innovation
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• To advance science and sustain technological
  creativity
• by making RD findings available and useful to
  DOE researchers
• and the American people

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STI
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Energy Policy Act of 2005
"The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific
and Technical Information, shall maintain within
the Department publicly available collections of
scientific and technical information resulting
from research, development, demonstration, and
commercial applications activities supported by
the Department."
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Exciting Times for Basic RD and DOE Labs
"Sustained scientific advancement and innovation
are key to maintaining our competitive edge."
President's American Competitiveness
Initiative, February 2006
DOE National Laboratories are key to the
Presidents American Competitiveness Initiative
The environment in Washington is vibrantwith
renewed and robust emphasis on basic research
We value our partnership
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Science Education
DOE and its national laboratories have the best
authentic science information in the Nation
Its time to create a fully searchable organized
gateway to DOEs educational resources,
stratified along logical educational levels
"To prepare our citizens to compete more
effectively in the global marketplace, the
American Competitiveness Initiative proposes 380
million in new Federal support to improve the
quality of math, science, and technological
education in our K-12 schools
"The American Competitiveness Initiative commits
5.9 billion in FY 2007, and more than 136
billion over 10 years, to increase investments in
research and development, entrepreneurship and
innovation."
Courtesy White House press releases
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STIAB STI Policy
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STIAB Charter Scientific knowledge embodied in
textual and numeric data produced across the DOE
complex is appropriately disseminated and
preserved. A new draft STI Policy addresses
data as scientific information and calls for data
sharing, preservation, and access for
re-use. This effort is being led by the OSTI.
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Agency Efforts
NSF/NSB Long-Lived Data Collection NIH
Journal articles DOE STIAB
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Digital Data Interagency Working Group
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Representing the Department on the Interagency
Working Group on Digital Data, newly formed by
the Committee of Science of the National Science
and Technology Council. The working group is to
develop and implement a roadmap for the federal
government and coordinate policies and programs
to help ensure preservation and access to data.
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(Draft Charter is under review)
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Data-Driven Discovery
Japanese Art Images 70.6 GB
JCSG/SLAC 15.7 TB
NVO 93 TB
Life Sciences
Astronomy
Arts and Humanities
Engineering
Projected LHC Data 10 PB/year
SCEC 153 TB
TeraBridge 800 GB
Geosciences
Physics
Courtesy of Fran Berman, UCSD
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10 DOE Data Centers scores of other collections
ARM Program Data Management Facility, PNNL
BABAR Database, SLAC
Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) Run Results
ARM Programs External Data Center, BNL
Brahms Event Data, BNL 
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, ORNL
Thermodynamics data at Combustion Research
Facility, SNL
Controlled Fusion Atomic Data Center, ORNL
Gammasphere Data, LBNL, ANL, ORNL
Distributed Active Archive Center for
Biogeochemical Dynamics, ORNL
IPCC Climate Change Data, LLNL
Joint Genome Institute, LBNL
Homo sapiens protein database files, PNNL
Measurement and InstrumentationData Center, NREL
Wind data for the Wind Powering America Program,
INL
National Nuclear Data Center, BNL
Photographic Information eXchange, NREL
Radiation Safety Information Computational
Center, ORNL
U.S. Life-Cycle Inventory database, Golden Field
Office
Renewable Resource Data Center, NREL

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Agencys data management and re-use issues are as
simple yet complicated as

• Collection and preservation  What is going
  to be saved and for how long?
• Long-term care  Funding source for
  preservation after projects terminate.
• Identification and access  Documentation of
  the data and data collection processes.
• Science discovery Significance of a data
  set or collection.

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Innovation
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Areas of active innovation include
Federation of distributed collections with
simultaneous, ranked, full-text search.
Modeling scientific exchange in the research
process Grid-based and other distributed
computer processing techniques to support
federation of collections Integration of
numeric data and text Expanding digital access
to legacy documents
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OSTI aggressively seeking ways to increase access
and reduce burden for labs
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A Vision for the Future Accelerating Science
Knowledge Diffusion
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Science depends on the diffusionof 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.
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OSTI Corollary
Accelerating science knowledge diffusion
accelerates science progress
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Often the knowledge scientists need resides in
distant communities
Genomics
Spectroscopy
Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics
Plasma Physics
Nanoscience
Oceanography
Seismology
Cryogenics
Cosmology
Cybernetics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Astrodynamics
Agricultural Engineering
Radiology
Geology
Acoustics
Meteorology
Limnology
Stereochemistry
Bioinformatics
Immunology
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Diffusion from one area of discovery to remote
communities may take months to years!
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Metcalfs Law
states that the value of a network equals
approximately the square of the number of users
of the system
OSTIs Law The value of the network increases
as the speed/relevancy of retrieval increases.
Courtesy Wikipedia
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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.
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Searching multiple deep Web databases via a
single query
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First government deployment made by OSTI in 1999
in EnergyFiles
Metasearch
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Patrons often overwhelmed by too many hits
Introduced relevancy ranking of metasearch
results in 2004 in Science.gov
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Goal to approach ultimate in precision searching
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The Deep Web Is HUGE!
Challenge Metasearch has scaling issues
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We need systems that probe the Deep Web
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Current systems provide examples for global
discovery
(www.science.gov) (www.osti.gov/eprints)
Global discovery benefits scientists as they
conduct deep Web research across all scientific
communities simultaneously.
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Deep Web
Thanks to you (and OSTI) a significant portion of
databases are from DOE
Science.gov
E-print Network
ScienceConferences
Only small parts of the deep Web are
metasearchable
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A global discovery gateway would advance science
Goal Make all of science available and
accessible in one place Process Expand content,
enhance precision searching and amplify computing
power Means Deploy Innovations in Scientific
Knowledge and Advancement (ISKA) to form a Global
Discovery gateway, which would aggregate, search
and rank all of the important, Web-accessible
science databases
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We stand on the rim of a new era of global
discovery

• 1 Expand Content
• Increase searchable content within databases
• Incorporate databases from all scientific
  communities
• Beyond text numeric data, audio, video, etc.

• 2 Enhance Precision Searching
• Integrate analytical tools
• Improve sophistication and speed of relevancy
  ranking
• Next-generation algorithms
• Visualization techniques

• 3 Amplify Computing Power
• Deploy emerging technologies to enable extraction
  of ever increasing content
• Increase computer power, storage capacity
• Special architecture, grid technology

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• The calculus of innovation is really quite
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• Knowledge drives innovation
• Innovation drives productivity
• Productivity drives our economic growth.
• Thats all there is to it.

- William R. Brody President, The Johns Hopkins
University Member, Council on Competitiveness U.S.
Competitiveness The Innovation
Challenge Testimony to the House Committee on
Science July 21, 2005