WorldWideScience.orgA Global Alliance Supporting Open Science

and Innovations in DiscoveryDobrica SavicHead of the Nuclear Information Section, IAEAChair, WorldWideScience Alliance

The Beginning - January 2007

Global Science Gateway Agreement Signed in London

United States and United Kingdom -Statement of Intent to partner inthe development of a searchableglobal science gateway

Signed by Dr. Ray Orbach, then UnderSecretary for Science of the U.S. Departmentof Energy, and Dame Lynn Brindley, thenChief Executive Officer of the British Library

Global Science Gateway Opens – June 2007

WorldWideScience.org prototype launched 10 Countries Represented 15 Databases/Portals Searchable

WorldWideScience Alliance Formed – June 2008

WorldWideScience AllianceFormed to establish a Multilateral Governance Structure

Growth of WorldWideScience.org – 2009

Between inception of the prototype in 2007 and 2009,WorldWideScience.org grew from:

• 10 countries represented… to 56 countries• 15 searchable databases/portals… to more than

50 databases

In 2009, China joined theWorldWideScience Alliance

Increasing the need formultilingual translationscapabilities…

Multilingual WorldWideScience.org – 2010

In partnership with Microsoft Research, WorldWideScience.orgintroduced multilingual translations capabilities in June 2010

Breaking Down Language Barriers and Accelerating Scientific Discovery

Multilingual Translations

The world’s first “one to many” and“many to one” multilingualtranslations tool in science

• Most automatic translations arelimited to translating from a singlelanguage into another singlelanguage

• WorldWideScience.org partneringwith Microsoft® Translator enablestrue multilingual functionality

Multilingual Translations

Translating ten languages, with potential for more:

Integration of Multimedia and Speech-Indexed Content – 2011

Multimedia (video, audio, images)A major emerging form of scientific and technical information

Within WorldWideScience.org –users can search for the preciseterm within video and be directedto the exact point in the videowhere the term was spoken

Integration of Scientific and Research Data – 2012

WorldWideScience.org overcomes many of the challengesassociated with the discoverability of scientific and research data:

Open Data sources searchable with a single query

Consolidated results list

Links to original records, including datasets

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Growth and Enhancements – 2013-2018

New design and layout, includingmobile responsive compatibility

New databases and portalsadded – over 100 resources nowsearchable

Federated search technologyimprovements – faster searchspeeds and addition of resultsclustering options

Growth and Enhancements – 2013-2018

Translations enhancements –continued use of Microsoft’slatest Translator services

Introduction of Topic Pages(exposing popular WWS.orgresults to Google indexing)contributed to majorincreases in usage

Over 80 million transactions per year!

Growth and Enhancements – 2013-2018

Inclusion of Open Access/Public Access Resources

U.S. “public access” databases

Growth and Enhancements – 2013-2018

A Key Pillar in Enabling Open Science –Promoting Discovery of Scientific Software

For the past 10 Years…

WorldWideScience.org has accelerated scientific discovery by:

Providing access to authoritative, high quality resources

Enabling users to search multiple databases with a single query, includingunique deep web content not readily indexed by major search engines

Translating search queries into multiple languages, and then translatingconsolidated results into the user’s native language

Supporting discovery of textual and non-textual (multimedia, research data,scientific software) information

The Next 10 Years…

WorldWideScience.org will promote scientific collaboration,participation, and transparency:

Build on the base: More sources, countries, languages, full text, multimedia, data, and software

Provide equal access to science for anyone on the Internet through continued growth ofopen/public access resources for scholarly publications, research data, and scientific software

Multilingual federated search of these diverse and related research objects continues to havemajor discovery advantages over traditional search engines

Increase membership and participation, both as database/source owners and asWorldWideScience Alliance members

Thank you!