1. Evolution of NBII Search-Based Technologies Oct 24, 2002 Donna Roy USGS Center for Biological Informatics

2. Introduction Vision and Hope….. Early Search Tools Automated Search Tools such as BioBot Portal (My.NBII.Gov) Search Tools Topics

3. Who am I? What do I do within NBII? Topics

4. 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?? ?

5. In the beginning…

6. Typical Search

7. Let’s do some meta tags

8. NBII Meta tags

9. Dramatic improvements

10. Integrated results

11. And a bit more evolution…

12. BioBot intelligent agent

13. Intelligent agent built specifically for the biological community Targets NBII collections as well as major search engines Stores queries and delivers results BioBot purpose

14. Search Profiling BioBot Search My NBII -Off-line delivery -E-mail update -Customizable -Integrated -Distributed -Bio-info sources -Simple Search -Boolean -Integrated BioBot Components

15. 1. 2. 3. BioBot – profiling

16. Getting smarter …

17. 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

18. Enter the world of portals….

19. 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

20. My.NBII.Gov Search Efforts

21. 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

22. My.NBII.Gov – New BioBot search

23. BioBot Search result…

24. My.NBII.Gov – Advanced Search Advanced Search The ability to search via document properties (i.e. author) or folders is available in the portal.

25. Additional Portal searching

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