http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/08/28/sciencehack-youtube-meets-chemistry en-us 40 Walking the Web of Chemical Informatics <p><center><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G8PYiUCkFhE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G8PYiUCkFhE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></center></p> <p>If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million. <a href="http://sciencehack.com">ScienceHack</a> offers a service that helps users find free videos in a variety of scientific fields, including chemistry.</p> <p>Perhaps more noteworthy than the service itself is how ScienceHack works. Rather than relying on robotic indexing agents, ScienceHack claims to use real scientists to screen its links to videos.</p> <p>Given the wealth of free chemical information sources appearing in a variety of formats, from blogs to videos to <a href="http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/01/24/thirty-two-free-chemistry-databases">databases</a>, could the ScienceHack model of expert-selected scientific information be the start of a new trend in scientific Internet startups?</p> <p>Currently, ScienceHack's links point to mostly standard general chemistry demonstrations found on <a href="http://youtube.com">YouTube</a> and <a href="http://video.google.com/">Google Video</a>. This could get considerably more interesting if research chemists begin to experiment more with video as a medium for communicating results. Regardless, ScienceHack demonstrates the value of indexing free stuff in science.</p> Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:31:00 -0400 urn:uuid:9b24f7d2-953c-4b45-a93f-5ba6c704a06f Rich Apodaca http://depth-first.com/articles/2007/08/28/sciencehack-youtube-meets-chemistry Meta sciencehack abstracter video