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Brian HitsonAssociate Director
Office of Scientific and Technical InformationU.S. Department of Energy
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What is “Grey”
• Wikipedia: “…a body of materials that cannot be found easily through conventional channels such as publishers…”
• “ . . . information that is not searchable or accessible through conventional search engines or subject directories and is not generally produced by commercial publishing organisations.” (National Library of Australia)
• Webster’s Dictionary: “An achromatic colour between the extremes of black and white.”
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“Between the extremes ofblack and white”
Grey = Deep
• published journals
• books
• professional society conference proceedings
• preprints
• e-prints
• technical reports
• lectures
• numeric data sets
• audio/visual media
• blogs
• fora, etc.
• ideas
• concepts
• thought
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Two Key Challenges of the “Deep”
1. What you don’t know can hurt you (or, at least, it could help you).
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Two Key Challenges of the “Deep”
2. Time = money and delayed progress.
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Federated search drills down to the deep web where scientific databases reside First Deep Web Search Engine:
Science.gov
Deep Web Databases
Surface Web
Overcoming Challenges of the “Deep”
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Prominent Deep WebSearch Engines
• Science.gov • ScienceAccelerator.gov• E-print Network• Science Conference Proceedings• Federal R&D Project Summaries
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WorldWideScience.org Databases/Portals
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• Concept introduced by OSTI Director, Walt Warnick, June 2006, Bethesda, Maryland
• Bilateral U.S.(DOE)/U.K. (British Library) partnership, January 2007, London
WorldWideScience.orgHistory
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• Demonstration of first prototype, June 2007, Nancy, France
• Multilateral governance structure, WorldWideScience Alliance, established June 2008, Seoul
• Common ingredient: International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)
WorldWideScience.orgHistory Continued
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WorldWideScience.orgFacts and Figures
• Searches 49 science databases and portals sponsored by governments and national institutions in 54 countries
• Covers scientific literature from over three-fourths of the world’s population
• Includes a vast quantity of science (over 375 million pages), much of which is grey literature
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What’s Next for WWS.org?
• Overcoming scalability issues• Offering alerts service• Searching multilingual sources
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Broader Challenges in “Grey”
• Improving access to and search of emerging grey literature:– Multimedia sources– Images– Data sets
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ICSTI Technical Projects
Numeric DataMultimediaWeb 2.0
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ConclusionsGrey is…
• Global
• Growing
• Good…for sciencemedicinetechnology