Inside NIF: Science Video Search Integration

As we push forward integrating neuroscience resources, literature & data - we are always looking for novel, helpful and exciting neuroscience related content to integrate within the semantically-enhanced NIF system. In fact, if you have a neuroscience resource and would like to register it with NIF, please check out the tutorial for Registering your Resource with NIF.

Scientists, students, administrators..practically everyone is reading multiple large documents per day which requires time, attention and, of course, enough lexical knowledge to fully grasp its meaning. Fortunately, there is YouTube for that downtime (i.e. the latest cat meme). However, there have been a number of new sites dedicated solely to scientific content.

Scivee.tv is a great example.

They allow scientists to upload video summaries of their work - so rather than just read the article, you are able to watch the scientist explain the research and even watch the video with an auto scrolling feature taking you to the relevant part in the article - check out the video here.

the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JOVE) is another great example.

With a special section dedicated to neuroscience, JOVE provide excellent video tutorials for laboratory protocols and methods - one thing, in particular, that is easier to pick up by watching rather than reading.

Lastly, YouTube does in fact have a lot of interesting, neuroscience-related videos - most of them being video presentations from conference proceedings or well-produced interviews with prominent scientists.

In the future, we would like to curate these videos and provide the NIF community to search for and save their favorite neuroscience videos. We will be sure to update the community as these features roll out and as always we love to hear your feedback. If you have any ideas or know of similar science-related video sites, please feel free to contact us by any means or post a comment below!

 

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