Evolution of Evolution of NBII NBII

Search-Based Search-Based TechnologiesTechnologies

Oct 24, 2002Donna Roy

USGS Center for Biological Informatics

Introduction Vision and Hope….. Early Search Tools Automated Search Tools such as

BioBot Portal (My.NBII.Gov) Search Tools

Topics

Who am I?

What do I do within NBII?

Topics

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?? ?

In the beginning…

Typical Search

Let’s do some meta tags

Unique Species Metatags

Organization

Species Scientific Name

Species Common Name

Species Location NBII Theme NBII Category

General Metatags

Keywords

Description

Author

Title

Distribution

Ratings

Classification

NBII Meta tags

Dramatic improvements

Integrated results

And a bit more evolution…

BioBot intelligent agent

Intelligent agent built specifically for the biological community

Targets NBII collections as well as major search engines

Stores queries and delivers results

BioBot purpose

Search

ProfilingBioBot Search

My NBII

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

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

BioBot Components

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3.

BioBot – profiling

Getting smarter …

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

Current Standards

Enter the world of portals….

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

My.NBII.Gov Search Efforts

• 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

My.NBII.Gov documents

My.NBII.Gov – New BioBot search

BioBot Search result…

My.NBII.Gov – Advanced Search

Advanced SearchThe ability to search via documentproperties (i.e. author) or folders is

available in the portal.

Additional Portal searching

D_Roy@usgs.gov

(703) 648-4209

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