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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