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YouTube for Science?
Shipud writes "The National Science Foundation, Public Library of Science and the San Diego Supercomputing Center have partnered to set up what can best be described as a "YouTube for scientists", SciVee". Scientists can upload their research papers, accompanied by a video where they describe the work in the form of a short lecture, accompanied by a presentation. The formulaic, technical style of scientific writing, the heavy jargonization and the need for careful elaboration often renders reading papers a laborious effort. SciVee's creators hope that that the appeal of a video or audio explanation of paper will make it easier for others to more quickly grasp the concepts of a paper and make it more digestible both to colleagues and to the general public."
PLOS One accepts articles from any field. Plus, it's in alpha testing. They'll get some physical science journals certified eventually.
The Journal of Visualized Experiments has been in operation for a while and is awesome. There are several Science YouTube sites. I want want one that is geared toward organic synthesis and materials synthesis.
How timely.
A friend blogged about SciVee which is intended to be Youtube for scientists.
And it runs on Drupal.
2bits.com, Inc: Drupal, WordPress, and LAMP performance tuning.
We are running a http://videolectures.net/ science video site with over 2500 science videos and presentations mostly related to Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Semantic Web, etc.
If you click it right now, please also check http://videolectures.net/site/live/ where live webcast of the Machine Learning Summer School which is going on right now (http://www.mlss.cc/tuebingen07/).
And please don't put it on the slashdot front page (i.e. slashdot-it) just jet, because the server probably won't stand that much load (we'll be upgrading servers soon).