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Wednesday, 20th June 2007

New Database: Scitalks Debuts With Over 1000 Science Lectures Available Online

One of the types of content we enjoy posting and we've been told by many readers you enjoy learning about are new and/or interesting lectures coming from various universities, think tanks, etc. We usually place them in this category (happy browsing). For example, we recently linked to a lecture by Sir Tim Berners-Lee about web design presented at Tufts University.

Today a new site that offers a massive amount of recorded lecture material. The service is named SciTalks.com.

From the news release:
[Scitalks is a] searchable repository of video recordings of science lectures from all over the world. The site launches today with over 1,000 lectures online, and more are being added daily. Segments range from a series of hour-long lectures by the late Richard Feynman, to a short, hilarious Ali G interview with Noam Chomsky, and a fascinating talk on designing a semiconductor-based brain, by up-and-coming Stanford researcher Kwabena Boahen.

You can find the latest additions to the database in the "new" section of the site. Content is aggregated on Scitalks from a variety of content producers.

We would love to see Scitalks hook-up with the likes of a service (Nexidia, would be one example) that could take same/all of the content and make each lecture "transcript" searchable. We also hope with the metadata each entry offers, that more search options become available in the future. This will make the database even more useful as more and more content is added.

SciTalks is a VERY welcome addition to the online multimedia search space. Congrats!

Another excellent source to find lectures and presentations is ResearchChannel.com which is also accessiable via the Blinkx database.

More to Come!
Look for http://www.humtalks.com (Humanities), GovTalks (Government) and Busitalks (Business) in the next few months. We hope the owners of these sites remain true to their original idea and focus on non-commercial content (for the most part).

Source: Scitalks and news release.
Thanks to Pete W. for the news tip.


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