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Science.gov: Providing Unified and Simplified Access to U.S. Government Science
InformationPresented by
Eleanor Frierson, Deputy Director
National Agricultural Library and Co-chair,
Science.gov Alliance
Symposium: Global Discovery on the Internet: A Grand Challenge
AAAS Annual Meeting 2006
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Why Science.gov?
There is a need to find U.S. government scientific and technical information quickly and easily, but
information is dispersed across thousands of Web sites (“Surface Web”) and databases (“Deep Web”).
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Science.gov Creation Challenges
• Broad scope of Federal science and technology research and development missions
• Wide-ranging interests of potential audiences• Information organization (taxonomy) issues given
the broad scope and audiences• Blending information resources from different
agencies into cohesive functionality and page design
• Politics, human resources, funding, sustainability
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What is Science.gov?
• “FirstGov for Science”• A Web portal that provides unified and
simplified access to selected U.S. government Web sites and databases that contain scientific and technical information
• A voluntary large scale collaboration among U.S. government agencies
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What Does www.science.gov Do?
• Searches selected Web sites (“Surface Web”) and Databases (“Deep Web”) from one search box, using simple to fairly advanced searching techniques
• Combines results from all sources searched, ranks and displays them by relevance
• Sends “alerts” for topics of interest every Monday or as new information is added
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How Has Science.gov Evolved?
• Science.gov Alliance formed in 2001 - 14 scientific and technical information organizations from 10 major science agencies
• V. 1.0 of www.science.gov launched in December 2002
• V. 2.0 launched in May 2004• “Alerts” service launched in February 2005• V. 3.0 launched in December 2005• Science.gov Alliance now includes 17 organizations
from 12 agencies
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Continuing Challenges
• More usage – science.gov usage is growing, especially as more “alerts” are established, but it has plenty of room for growth
• More complete results display –searches are now comprehensive but the extent of results displayed is a function of the size of result sets supplied from the individual organizations. Ideally, both searching and result display would be comprehensive and uniform
• Where to go after v. 4.0?
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Continuing Challenges
Collaboration with other science portals:
• Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) www.agnic.org• CISTI - cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cisti_e.html• DEFF – www.deff.dk• JST (Japan) www.jst.go.jp/EN/• Korea (under development) • RDN - http://www.rdn.ac.uk • Science.gov (Australia) - www.science.gov.au• Science (Canada) - www.science.gc.ca• Science.gouv (France) - www.science.gouv.fr• Vascoda - www.vascoda.de
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What’s Next for Science.gov?
• Version 4.0, under development, will add searching of decentralized full text repositories to the existing searching of Web sites and databases
• Science.gov Alliance members will continue to add new content
• www.science.gov will be evaluated and modified to meet customer needs
• The Science.gov Alliance will begin thinking about the future of www.science.gov beyond version 4.0
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