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July 2012 – Interview with Brian Hitson, Chair, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information's Technical Activities Coordinating Committee, US
February 5, 2012 – A greater need than ever for multilingual federated search
January 30, 2012 – Deep Web Technologies: Cracking Multilingual Search
January 18, 2012 – New WorldWideScience.org Application Available for SciVerse Hub
October 3, 2011 – NAL & WorldWideScience.org: A science-based international search engine
June 8, 2011 – A First in Combining Science Discovery Technologies: Federated Search and Speech-Indexed Multimedia
Oak Ridge, TN - The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) announced today a new tool in scientific discovery technology. Now citizens and researchers alike can search for both written and spoken words in a whole range of media using OSTI's new, speech-indexed multimedia within large scientific search portals. To this point, online searches for scientific information have been limited to text, such as within scientific papers. The new development uses unique speech-recognition search technology in combination with OSTI's two federated search portals, ScienceAcceleator.gov and WorldWideScience.org, which search a wide range of DOE and worldwide databases, respectively. This vastly extends the reach of federated searching and could lead to new connections and new breakthroughs. More
February 18, 2011 – Breaking down language barriers through multilingual federated search
"WorldWideScience.org (WWS) is a global science gateway developed by the US Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in partnership with federated search vendor Deep Web Technologies. WWS provides a simultaneous live search of 69 databases from government and government-sanctioned organizations from 66 participating nations. The WWS portal plays a leading role in bringing together the world's scientists to accelerate the discoveries needed to solve the planet's most pressing problems. In this paper we present a brief history of the development of WWS and discuss how a new technology, multilingual federated search, greatly increases WWS' ability to facilitate the advancement of science."
– Abe Lederman, Walter Warnick, Brian Hitson, Lorrie Johnson
June 11, 2010 – WorldWideScience.org Goes Multilingual
[Photo courtesy of Jakke Nikkarinen/STT info Kuva
OAK RIDGE, TN - Now you can find non-English scientific literature from databases in China, Russia, France, and several Latin American countries and have your search results translated into one of nine languages. With the beta launch today (view the Office of Science announcement) of Multilingual WorldWideScience.org, real-time searching and translation of globally-dispersed collections of scientific literature is possible. This new capability is the result of an international public-private partnership between the WorldWideScience.org Alliance and Microsoft Research, whose translation technology has been paired with the federated searching technology of Deep Web Technologies. More
September 1, 2010 – Democratization of Scientific and Technical Information
"INIS joined the World Wide Science Organization and has made its database searchable also through their web portal. This sole action doubled the number of INIS database searches, improved its presence in the world of science and increased its usefulness to the scientific and technical community. " - Dobrica Savic, INIS
September 1, 2010 – Visibility on the Web
"Another important factor which has helped improve INIS visibility, and therefore its usage, is INIS’ inclusion in the World Wide Science (WWS) website; INIS has become one of the resources searched within WWS. " - Taghrid Atieh, INIS
July 15, 2010 – WorldWideScience.org wird mehrsprachig
July 6, 2010 – Multilingual WorldWideScience: Accelerating Scientific Research, Empowering Researchers
June 30, 2010 – Breaking Down the Language Barriers
June 28, 2010 – Connectivity and Communications in Global Science
June 24, 2010 – What have you been missing?
June 21, 2010 – Multilingual WorldWideScience.orgBETA Officially Launched
June 15, 2010 – Dr. Wu Yishan's Blog
June 14, 2010 – Conduct a global literature search in seconds
June 11, 2010 – Microsoft Research and WorldWideScience.org Collaborate to Remove Language Barriers
June 11, 2010 – WorldWideScience.org launches multilingual translation tool
June 11, 2010 – Multilingual WorldWideScience.org Launch Broadens Access to Global Science
Videos of International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) Annual Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June 11 2010
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[Introduced by Brian Hitson/OSTI; Video courtesy of Tommi Tikka/STT info Kuva] Keynote address: The Fourth paradigm: Data-intensive scientific discovery; Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research |
WorldWideScience.org: Accelerating Discovery through Multilingual Translations; Walter Warnick, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information,
demo by Abe Lederman, Deep Web Technologies, Inc.
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Multilingual WorldWideScience.org Ceremony featuring Walter Warnick, Richard Boulderstone, Tony Hey,
Wu Yishan, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China - ISTIC,
Yuri Arskiy, All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information - VINITI |
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June 11, 2010 – Tutkijoiden välinen kielimuuri murtuu Helsingissä - VTT mukana WorldWideScience -allianssin perustajajäsenenä (KUVA-VIDEOTIEDOTE, vapaasti median käyttöön)
June 10, 2010 – Science is the Universal Language – WorldWideScience.orgBETA, British Library
March 24, 2010 – HSE Research Gets Global Exposure, TechCentral.ie
March 23, 2010 – HSE's Lenus Joins Global Science Gateway, Library.ie
March 10, 2010 – Health Service Executive's Lenus Joins Global Science Gateway
March 1, 2010 – Ireland's Health Service Executive joins WorldWideScience Alliance
Ireland's Health Service Executive (HSE) has recently joined the WorldWideScience Alliance. HSE's health repository, LENUS, can now be searched through WorldWideScience.org. LENUS provides full text access to health information from Ireland. Examples of topics covered in LENUS include cardiovascular disease, health policy, occupational health and safety, and women's health.
WorldWideScience.org provides access to over 60 scientific and technical databases from around the world. Through the use of federated search technology, users have a single point of access to more than 400 million pages of science information.
November 26, 2009 – BL's Digital Destiny Computer Active
September 11, 2009 –Global Science Community Shares Wealth of Knowledge, British Library
August 4, 2009 – WorldWideScience provides a one-stop search engine to mine global scientific databases in the deep web
June 10, 2009 – WorldWideScience.org: China's Participation Expands Access to Global Science
[Photo courtesy of the Canada Institute
for
Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI)]
WorldWideScience Alliance Executive Board
Members welcomed China as a new
alliance
member. Shown at the signing ceremony
are (seated) Richard Boulderstone
(Chair),
The British Library, and Wang Rongfang,
Chinese Embassy in Canada, and
(standing) Herbert Gruttemeier
(ICSTI President), French National
Institute of
Scientific and
Technical Information;
Pam Bjornson (Vice Chair),
Canada Institute for
Scientific and Technical
Information; and Walt Warnick (Operating
Agent),
U.S. DOE Office of Scientific and
Technical Information (OSTI).
Ottawa, Canada Government officials today formalized the addition of the People's Republic of China as the most recent member of the WorldWideScience Alliance. The signing ceremony was held in Ottawa, Canada. The addition of the Chinese database, from the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, means that WorldWideScience.org, the global science gateway, now searches science and technology research and development results from 80 percent of the world's population. The multilateral WorldWideScience Alliance was established in June 2008 to govern this rapidly growing online gateway to international scientific research information.
WorldWideScience.org uses federated search engine technology to provide a single point of Internet search and retrieval for vast quantities of geographically-dispersed science and technology information - information which is generally not accessible to conventional search engines. The growth of WorldWideScience.org, since its prototype debut in 2007 has been dramatic, rapidly evolving from 10 countries to 56 countries and 375 million pages of science information today. In the Ottawa ceremony, Chinese and WorldWideScience.org officials signed a statement, saying, "We commit ourselves to a long-term vision for enabling and accelerating scientific discovery through unique and innovative use of federated searching and other technologies." The ceremony was held in conjunction with the 2009 conference of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), which serves as a primary sponsor of the WorldWideScience Alliance.
Taking part in the signing ceremony were Wang Rongfang, Chinese Embassy in Canada, and WorldWideScience Alliance Executive Board Members Richard Boulderstone (Chair), The British Library; Pam Bjornson (Vice Chair), Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information; Walt Warnick (Operating Agent), OSTI; and Herbert Gruttemeier (ICSTI President), French National Institute of Scientific and Technical Information.
Video of China's Participation Expands Access to Global Science
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[Video by: Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information]
Video of WorldWideScience Alliance Signing Ceremony
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[Video by: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information]
May 13, 2009 – New Sources Added to WorldWideScience.org
KoreaMed, a product similar to PubMed, was recently added to WorldWideScience.org. KoreaMed provides access to articles published in Korean medical journals from the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE). Coverage goes back to approximately 1997.
The International Science and Technology Center (ISTC), a database containing approximately 5,000 project summaries of research taking place in Russia and several former Soviet states, has also been added to WorldWideScience.org. Established by international agreement in 1992, the Parties to ISTC are Canada, the United States, the European Union, Japan, Norway, and South Korea (funding Parties), as well as Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan (recipient Parties).
October 15, 2008 – People's Republic of China joins WorldWideScience Alliance
The People's Republic of China has joined the WorldWideScience Alliance – the multilateral governance structure for the global science gateway, WorldWideScience.org. WorldWideScience.org is intended to accelerate international scientific progress by serving as a single, sophisticated point of access for diverse scientific resources and expertise from nations around the world. The addition of China is a notable milestone, as it is a major global contributor to scientific knowledge. Read the press release.
[Photograph by: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information]
Alliance Members (From Left to Right): Yukiko Sone (for Masayuki Mizukami,
Japan Science and Technology Agency); Kirsi Tuominen, VTT Technical
Research
Centre (Finland); Pam Bjornson, Canada Institute for Scientific
and Technical
Information; Walter L. Warnick, U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Scientific
and Technical Information (WorldWideScience.org
Operating Agent); Yang Byeong-tae,
Korea Institute of Science and
Technology Information; Richard Boulderstone, The
British Library
(United Kingdom); Jeffrey Salmon, U.S. Department of Energy,
Associate
Under Secretary for Science; Lee Gul-woo, Korean Ministry of Education,
Science, and Technology; Herbert Gruttemeier, International Council for
Scientific
and Technical Information; Eleanor Frierson, Science.gov
Alliance (United States);
Jean-François Nominé (for Raymond Duval,
Institut de l'Information Scientifique et
Technique (France); Jan Brase
[for Uwe Rosemann, German National Library of Science
and Technology (TIB)]
Not Pictured: Abel Packer, Scientific Electronic Library On-Line (SciELO);
Yvonne Halland, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
(South Africa); Susan Murray, African Journals Online; T. Mary McEntegart,
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
June 12, 2008 – WorldWideScience Alliance Agreement Signed in Korea
Officials from organizations representing 38 countries gathered recently in Seoul, Korea to formalize their commitment to sustain and build upon the online gateway to the world’s science information. The Alliance (see DOE press release) was formed to establish a multilateral governance structure. WorldWideScience.org enables anyone with Internet access to launch a single-query search of 32 national scientific databases and portals from 44 countries, covering six continents and nearly half of the world’s population. Users of WorldWideScience.org can search more than 200 million pages of science and technology information not typically accessible through popular search engines. more
Video of WorldWideScience Alliance Signing Ceremony
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[Video by: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information]
April 1, 2008 – Sources from Finland, Sweden and Korea
Science from Finland, Sweden and Korea can now be found at WorldWideScience.org, the global gateway to science. This brings the total to 32 sources from 44 countries that can be searched. The new sources include the VTT Publications Register and VTT Research Register (from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), the Directory of Open Access Journals (managed by Lunds University in Sweden), and KoreaScience (from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information). Visit WorldWideScience.org and click on the interactive map to view science sources from every inhabited continent.
February 5, 2008 – Formative WorldWideScience Alliance Meeting
WorldWideScience Alliance Stakeholders held the formative meeting of the Alliance on February 5, 2008 in Paris, France. The meeting provided a concentrated opportunity to review and revise the Terms of Reference (ToR). A nomination and voting period for elected officer positions will take place in April.
January 8, 2008 – India added to WorldWideScience.org
Four important science information sources from India have been added to WorldWideScience.org. The Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian Institute of Science Eprints, the Indian Institute of Science Theses & Dissertations and the Indian Medlars Centre are now available through the global science gateway, making a total of 28 sources from 18 countries searchable via a single query. The addition of India effectively doubled the percentage of the world's population represented in the searches of WorldWideScience.org. The goal of the gateway is to make the world’s science readily available to researchers and citizens. WorldWideScience.org is maintained by OSTI, which makes R&D findings available and useful to advance discovery.
June 22, 2007 – Global Science Gateway Now Open-->
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the British Library, along with eight other participating countries, today opened an online global gateway to science information from 15 national portals. The gateway, WorldWideScience.org (worldwidescience.org), gives citizens, researchers and anyone interested in science the capability to search science portals not easily accessible through popular search technology such as that deployed by Google, Yahoo! and many other commercial search engines.
Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library sign
a Statement of Intent to partner in the development of a
searchable global science gateway.
January 21, 2007 – Global Science Gateway Agreement Signed in London-->
A Statement of Intent (215-KB PDF) to partner in the development of a searchable global science gateway was signed Sunday, January 21, by Dr. Raymond Orbach, Under Secretary for Science of the U.S. Department of Energy, and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library.
Promotional Materials
- WorldWideScience 2-page Brochure
- WorldWideScience Flyer
- WorldWideScience Header
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Document
- How Does WorldWideScience.org Work?
- WorldWideScience Widget
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