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OSTI/SLAC Research Workshop

Exploring the Scientific and Technical Information and Data Needs Of Researchers and DOE

This workshop will explore how lab-based scientists use scientific and technical information (STI), data, and supplemental material in the workflow of their research efforts.  DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) will describe their role and responsibilities in collecting, preserving, and disseminating STI, as well as specific OSTI tools and services.  OSTI will seek to gain a better understanding of the STI and data needs of researchers for the purpose of making OSTI tools and services (and their STI content) more useful and integrated to meet those needs, while fulfilling DOE’s public access and dissemination mandates.

Access to DOE R&D Results for the Research Community – 1.5 hours

Group (15-25 participants) discussion with crosscutting attendance from the scientific disciplines at SLAC. 

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• How do you find most of your research articles and other research related information (ex. INSPIRE, arXiv.org, Web of Science, etc.)?
• What are the key features of these tools that create value for the community? What are typical search terms (key words, authors, titles, etc.)? Do you typically use advanced search options?
• What types of STI do you typically use in your workflow? Publications, technical reports, other researcher data, software developed outside of the group?
• Do you text and data mine in the course of your research?
• What is the current level of awareness of OSTI products?  How could awareness be raised?
• OSTI aims to be the definitive resource for DOE R&D results.  How can OSTI improve access to DOE R&D information to be more useful to the research communities?
• Given OSTI’s unique position of being the central clearinghouse for DOE publications, data, software and patents, what additional service could OSTI provide that would be of benefit to scientific discovery?

Data Management and Software – 1.5 hours

Group (15-25 participants) discussion with attendance from the data science and software community at SLAC.

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• What is the best way to make software searchable? For that matter, what does it mean "to search" software?
• How can we better link authors, developers, data and original research publications to software? For example, does everything get tagged with ORCID ids?
• How can we better track software artifacts that were not directly published, such as documentation or websites?
• Should older versions of software be searchable through OSTI?
• Should or how can OSTI facilitate connections between users of software packages and cloud service providers?

OSTI services

SciTech Connect – to search for technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information sponsored by DOE through a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism from the 1940s to today.
http://www.osti.gov/scitech/

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