ScienceCinema – DOE Search Engine for Videos
Thanks to colleague Peggy Garvin for her blog post on the SLA Government Information Division blog (Feb. 9); I’ve lifted the following straight from her!
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a new search engine for videos from the national laboratories and other DOE research facilities.
ScienceCinema (http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema/) searches the audio in these research and development lectures and presentations and links directly to the video files. As decribed in the DOE press release (8 February 2010):
ScienceCinema uses innovative, state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology from Microsoft Research to allow users to quickly find video files produced by the DOE National Laboratories and other DOE research facilities. When users search for specific scientific words and phrases of interest to them, precise snippets of the video where the specific search term was spoken will appear along with a timeline. Users can then select a snippet or a segment along the timeline to begin playing the video at the exact point in the video where the words were spoken. The timeline is synced with transcripts of the targeted portion of video.
It is anticipated that scientific videos, animations, interactive visualizations, and other multimedia will become an increasingly prominent form of scientific communications. ScienceCinema was produced, in part, as a proof of concept to demonstrate the value of speech recognition in the complex vocabulary of science.
The audio search is supplemented with a bibliographic search that includes fields for creator/author, title, description/abstract, identifier numbers, publication date, and system entry date. Some fields–such as the description–may not be populated for some records, so you may wish to try several approaches to search.
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