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Science.gov Celebrates a Unique Milestone

The science.gov Alliance's 12 federal agencies celebrated a unique milestone on Nov. 7.

Officials from across the country gathered at the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to commemorate science.gov, a portal into the world's largest collection of science information. Highlighting the festivities was the official renaming of the road adjacent to OSTI, host to science.gov., as Science.gov Way.

Walter Warnick, OSTI Director, paid homage to the men and women who have worked to make science.gov a success.

James Decker, Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science
James Decker, Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, was featured speaker at the event.

"This unique portal into the nation's science research could not have been opened without the creativity and contribution of many, many hard-working people," said Warnick

The long list of those thanked included the agencies forming the science.gov Alliance; the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science; the Office of Management and Budget; FirstGov; U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-3rd District, and his staff; Senator Bill Frist's office; city and state officials; DeepWeb Technologies; participants in the 2000 Trivelpiece Workshop; and local DOE and contractor officials.

The Mayor of Oak Ridge, David Bradshaw, stressed that the road renaming, with unanimous support from the Oak Ridge City Council, dovetailed with the unique history of the city and its rich history rooted in scientific research.

James Decker, deputy director of DOE's Office of Science, was featured speaker at the Gateway Celebration.

"With the collaboration of the federal science agencies, science.gov is the first concrete step toward making the Trivelpiece vision a reality," said Decker, of science.gov's beginnings at the 2000 Trivelpiece Workshop. "As we make research results available through science.gov we are also providing for the development of the next generation of scientists who will continue to carry forth the great science tradition of this country."

U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham said of the event: "This street re-naming ceremony is a wonderful way to highlight Oak Ridge's transformation from the 'secret city' of the 1940s into the hub it has become today for information about all federal government research and development results. The government partnership that created science.gov is making our nation's science knowledge base more openly available than ever before."

Tom Lahr, Bonnie Carroll, Walt Warnick, and Eleanor Frierson
Tom Lahr, left, and Eleanor Frierson, right, are co-chairs of the science.gov Alliance and attended the Gateway Celebration. They are shown here chatting with Walt Warnick, Director of DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information, and Bonnie Carroll, Director/CENDI.
Jeff Wadsworth, director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Ed Oliver, associate director, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research George Malosh, deputy manager for Laboratory Operations, DOE Oak Ridge Operations Gerald Boyd, manager, DOE Oak Ridge Operations Parker Hardy, president, Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce Milt Johnson, deputy director of Operations, Office of Science James Decker, deputy director, Office of Science Walter L. Warnick, director, DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) David Bradshaw, mayor of Oak Ridge Eleanor Frierson, National Agricultural Library, co-chair, Science.gov Alliance Sarah Roper, senior content manager, FirstGov TN Rep. Jim Hackworth, D-Clinton Carolyn Jensen of Sen. Bill Frist's office Paul Mamo, portfolio manager, Government to Citizen Initiatives, Office of Management Bonnie Carroll, president, Information International Associates, and CENDI Secretariat Tom Lahr, chief of information management, U.S. Geological Survey, and co-chair, Science.gov Alliance Derek Winstanley, Illinois Water Survey, member of the 2000 Trivelpiece Workshop

The 12 agencies participating in science.gov are the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, and Interior; the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the National Science Foundation; the Government Printing Office; and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Other officials speaking at the event were Eleanor G. Frierson, Deputy Director, National Agricultural Library; Sarah Roper, Content Manager at FirstGov; and Paul Mamo, of the Office of Management and Budget.

Science.gov makes much of the government's science information accessible through the Internet to industry, academia, and the general public. From science.gov, users can find over 1,700 government information resources about science. These include technical reports, journal citations, databases, federal Web sites, and fact sheets. A distributed Deep Web search capability for the site, developed by OSTI, allows users to search and navigate the content of multiple databases with a single query, regardless of which agency hosts the databases or how the data is stored. The information is free and no registration is required.


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