SciVee brings more video to Science
I’m a little late on this one, but I’d like to express my amazement by the way the great people at PLoS manage to disseminate scientific information. This time they’ve joined forces with a couple partners and put out what is now my favorite science video/screencast streaming website - SciVee (even though I’m pretty fond of bioscreencasts.com!).
I wrote about a couple of other video and screencast websites related to life sciences a while back (and even a science video search engine) but this is different.
This isn’t just a website where you can see a video or two of people extracting DNA from a banana peel, it’s an amazing resource that combines video to real research and even published work (here’s where PLoS kicks in!). You can hear it from the actual experts as they explain their work and findings. It’s devided into most of the PLoS categories we are all used to finding and above all, it’s open to all!
What isn’t so great is the site’s web design and color scheme. Starting from the forced web2.0 glossy logo to the bright colored links on white background, it is screaming for a quick redesign. What do you think? Do you share my opinion?
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I didn’t mind the design actually. Unlike NCBI/RCSB, it’s actually a design. It has a rather “PLoS”-y look and feel to it, so might feel familiar to people. They could do with a little less gloss though.
And since I am here, Bioscreencast.com has a very different goal. It’s very much the playground for any software/web user remotely collected to the life science, an online manual as it were. SciVee’s goals are loftier, in that it is directly related to publications, and you require a camcorder/webcam, rather than just screencapture software.
In other words, you better put up a screencast on Bioscreencast soon (for that matter, I should too) :)
Hey! Yes, I know that the targets are quite different and therefore I was actually comparing apples and oranges. My bad.
I’d actually say that it does NOT have a PLoS feeling to it… or at least nothing compared to PLoS One’s beautiful website. My main gripe is actually with the flourescent text links on the white background.
And yes, I should get around to making a screencast or two to put up at Bioscreencasts.com.
Thanks for dropping a line.
i like SciVee’s idea of combining written publication with video, but i just don’t see scientists submitting these videos on their own. what’s the incentive? the journal of visulized experiments (www.jove.com) has been around for a while, and their content is professionally generated. this tends to make the videos more enjoyable.
Well in fact, I would have actually thought it to be a better idea if PLoS teamed up with JoVE. Then we’d be talkin business.
Anyhow, I think that we should give this some time and see how things roll.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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I did not have time to look into this in more detail. I suspect that this has something to do with Philip E Bourne. Most of the videos currently available are from his papers, he works at SDSC and is chief editor of PLoS Comp Bio (two of the three supporters of scivee).
Hello,
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With Regards,
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