ScienceCinema Goes Internationalby Brian Hitson 01 Jun, 2011 in Products and Content
In February, I wrote to you about the launch of ScienceCinema, a multimedia search engine developed by OSTI, in partnership with Microsoft. It continues to grow, and I am pleased to let you knowthat it is adding audio and video materials from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The inclusion of CERN materials is a milestone in the longstanding scientific collaboration between DOE and CERN and will increase public access to CERN scientific multimedia collections You can readabout the groundbreaking technology behind ScienceCinema and the new collaboration at theOSTI Press Releaseand on theDOE Blog. And be sure to try ScienceCinema and let us know what you think. Brian Hitson, Associate Director Administration and Information Services Related Topics: cern, DOE blog, ScienceCinema Read more... |
ScienceCinema -- Multimedia and Visualization Innovations for Scienceby Brian Hitson 08 Feb, 2011 in Technology ScienceCinema, OSTI's new multimedia search tool, was launched yesterday as part of a one-day workshop, “Multimedia and Visualization Innovations for Science,” jointly hosted by Microsoft and the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), held in Redmond, Washington. At the workshop, Lorrie Johnson, OSTI's ScienceCinema product manager, and Behrooz Chitsaz of Microsoft Research, held a session on ScienceCinema and the role of mulitmedia in the current science discovery environment. They correctly pointed out that although internet search tools are adequate for searching web pages and textual documents, the same is not true for multimedia content. So in order to provide better access to scientific and technical multimedia, OSTI has partnered with Microsoft Research to leverage speech recognition technology to enable searching across large volumes of spoken Department of Energy content, i.e., ScienceCinema. We hope you will try ScienceCinema and let us know what you think. You can read more about the technology at the OSTI press release and at the Energy Blog. Brian Hitson, Associate Director Administration and Information Services
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