Evolution of NBII Search-Based Technologies Oct 24, 2002 Donna 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
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 Profiling BioBot Search My NBII -Off-line delivery - update -Customizable -Integrated -Distributed -Bio-info sources -Simple Search -Boolean -Integrated BioBot Components
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 Search The ability to search via document properties (i.e. author) or folders is available in the portal.
Additional Portal searching
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