It seems, that the idea to use iPod generation technologies for scientific dissemination attracts increasingly more public attention. The news about SciVee website, discussed in one of the blogs before, have been reappearing in various sources: InformationWeek, The Wired Campus.
"The National Science Foundation, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the Public Library of Science have launched a video-sharing site for research papers. Dubbed SciVee, the so-called YouTube for science site features research papers and accompanying video in which authors can explain their work in simple terms that laymen and peers can understand. The new video-sharing site, created by and for scientists, presents a platform where researchers and lecturers can produce multimedia presentations of their work.” InformationWeek
Combined with the platform for collaboration, I think, SciVee design provides a conceptually new model for scientific dissemination, collaboration and open innovation.
Could this be a viable business model that links research and user-led innovation in education? (see last blog)