Videolectures.net joins forces with SEMIC.EU. The portal allows watching video lectures in varying fields of science for free.
Videolectures.net is now a SEMIC.EU Partner Project. It provides up-to-date and free access of high quality video lectures presented by distinguished scholars, scientists and researchers at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of science.
NEW: Videolectures.net section on SEMIC.EU
The portal offers a new channel dedicated to semantic interoperability. There is also a section on SEMIC.EU spotlighting videos that are must-sees for all interested in semantic interoperability.
Semantic interoperability videos: Videolectures.net on SEMIC.EU
Website access: SEMIC.EU at videolectures.net
All lectures provided on Videolectures.net have accompanying documents such as slides synchronized with videos, subtitles, external links and other additional information which is systematically selected and classified through an editorial process taking into account users' comments.
The portal aims on becoming a major reference video training material repository and dissemination channel for academic researchers all around the world. Following the ideas to network with other similar initiatives, new frameworks and plans are being prepared aiming at boosting up an eScience video reference network.
New video features
Videolectures.net evolves new video portal functions such as editorial services, slide linking, recommendation service, download service, automatic video classification and extended browsing capabilities. Find some innovative video functions linked below.
Examples of innovative video functions:
Video lecture witch synchronized slides:
On The History of Ugliness by Umberto Eco
Video lecture including subtitles:
Hooke's Law - Springs - Simple Harmonic Motion - Pendulum - Small Angle Approximation by Walter H. G. Lewin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Videos part of a course programme:
Course Syllabus Topic: Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning and Order Management System
In the beginning
The initial reason for the creation of the project Videolectures.net was the need to provide and enable free access to local scientific content. The pilot project was started to record and provide online a weekly section of lectures entitled "Solomon's seminars", these same lectures are being held until present time at the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute.
Development of video materials
Most of the training materials are being developed within the FP5, FP6, and FP7 European Framework Programs, where the web based portal Videolectures.net is being used as an educational platform for several EU funded research projects such as PASCAL NoE, ECOLEAD NoE, SEKT IP and different organizations, among others Xerox Parc, British Telecom, Max Planck, Fraunhofer Institute, Australian National University and Carnegie Mellon. The range of countries involved and languages used varies from Europe, USA, Taiwan, Australia, Ukraine, Russia and Brazil.
Further information:
Semantic interoperability videos: Videolectures.net on SEMIC.EU
Project access: Factsheet videolectures.net
Website access: SEMIC.EU at videolectures.net