STIP: Making Progress Embracing the Future

1. STIP: Making ProgressEmbracing the Future Scientific and Technical Information ProgramAnnual Working MeetingApril 18, 2012 Walt Warnick, Ph.D. Director, Office of Scientific and Technical Information

2. Have we made progress? Let’s Start with the End! Here’s the final slide of my 2011 presentation to the STIP community Ultimate Goal: Interlinking of All Types of Digital Assets

3. Progress?  YES FY2011 Submissions Highest level in years Spanning wide range of media types However, still mostly textual (technical reports, metadata for journals)

4. 2011 by the numbers 20% increase in STIP submissions over previous FY 32% increase in Web traffic over previous FY

5. Additional Successes • Launched multimedia product ScienceCinema, providing speech-indexed search of 1,200 DOE and CERN videos • Extended visibility of DOE R&D information through Science.gov and WorldWideScience.org (including automated multilingual translations and mobile access) • Serving DOE data centers by providing digital object identifiers (DOIs) to numeric datasets, ensuring permanent access

6. Importance of STIPREAFFIRMED in two key DOE Documents! Quadrennial Technology Review press release: “…the Department’s role as a source of information…is unique and indispensable in the advancement of energy technologies.” “Our success should be measured not when a project is completed or an experiment concluded, but when scientific and technical information is disseminated.... — 2011 Department of Energy Strategic Plan, Assure Excellence in R&D Management

7. The STIP Equation scientific and technical information dissemination = DOE SUCCESS IN ASSURING EXCELLENCE IN R&D MANAGEMENT DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ROLE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT AND THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY

8. DOE STI prominent in DOE Open Government Plan • Includes a number of initiatives to enhance transparency of DOE R&D results • “High value” data sets initially identified by DOE include DOE R&D results included in: • Information Bridge • DOepatents • Conference Papers & Proceedings • Energy Citations Database • http://energy.gov/open

9. Big Data Is a Big Deal OSTI among highlights of ongoing Federal government programs that address the challenges of, and tap the opportunities afforded by, the big data revolution to advance agency missions and further scientific discovery and innovation. Fact Sheet: Big Data Across the Federal Government March 29, 2012 “OSTI, the only U.S. federal agency member of DataCite (a global consortium of leading scientific and technical information organizations) plays a key role in shaping the policies and technical implementations of the practice of data citation, which enables efficient reuse and verification of data so that the impact of data may be tracked, and a scholarly structure that recognizes and rewards data producers may be established.”

10. Progressin Other Key Areas • Recognition of need to improve classified STI submissions • NNSA memo to labs, June 2011 • Enterprise Secure Network • Classified E-Link Classified Connectivity Classified Connectivity Publishers DataCite

11. Progressin Other Key Areas • Journal publisher partnerships underway • Aimed at enhancing journal article full- text searching. We are making citations of DOE-funded journal articles available in the search & retrieval applications operated by OSTI Publishers Classified Connectivity Publishers DataCite

12. Progressin Other Key Areas Publishers NOTE: Citations of DOE-funded journal articles still to be submitted by sites Publisher partnerships complement – do not replace - STIP submissions DOE’s STI Repository should be as comprehensive as possible Classified Connectivity Publishers DataCite

13. Progressin Other Key Areas • OSTI is actively pursuing making datasets more accessible • First live dataset minted with DataCite on 8/10/2011 from ORNL ARM DataCite Classified Connectivity Publishers DataCite

14. We are working with CrossRef and publishers in the FundRef project to make it easier to identify funding agency connections in journal articles. The goal is to more effectively demonstrate DOE's R&D outputs.  As we move further into this project, we'll be engaging the STIP community. The Future FundRef FundRef Engaging with OSTP Reality Check Building Blocks

15. The Future Engaging with OSTP (Office of Science and Technology Policy (a quick review) America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 SEC. 103. INTERAGENCY PUBLIC ACCESS COMMITTEE. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director shall establish a working group under the National Science and Technology Council with the responsibility to coordinate Federal science agency research and policies related to the dissemination and long-term stewardship of the results of unclassified research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications, supported wholly, or in part, by funding from the Federal science agencies. OSTI Director is DOE rep and one of the co-chairs for the “Public Access to Scientific Publications” (PASP) task force focused on Scholarly Publications FundRef Engaging with OSTP Reality Check Building Blocks

16. The Future REALITY CHECK Reality: Workforce downsizing across the Complex Labs have and are experiencing reductions OSTI is transitioning thru loss of 14 Federal employees through buyouts Budgetary constraints BUT Emphasis remains: Transparency; i.e., accountability Collaboration; i.e., partnerships and cooperation FundRef Engaging with OSTP Reality Check Building Blocks

17. The Future Building Blocks During the course of this Working Meeting, ask ourselves: What building blocks can we work towards and are within our reach to make DOE’s STI foundation stronger and help achieve the ultimate goal? FundRef Engaging with OSTP Reality Check Building Blocks

18. Interlinking of All Types of Digital Assets Still A Work in Progress