ScienceStage
Science Day is a global science -oriented multimedia portal with a focus on online video streaming. It should help improve communication between scientists and professional practitioners. In addition, high school teachers, practitioners, students and science- interested individuals can use the site as a virtual research, teaching and training resources. The video contents mainly include conference recordings, interviews, documentaries, webinars and tutorials.
Science Day sees itself as a "hub" (interface) for science, education and research industry. In this sense, it generates a meta-level that both users and user groups as well as multimedia content ( video, audio, documents and document links) are linked. So academics from science and practice is to be found an effectively integrated multi-media and social- networked working level. In 2010 Science Day is an official media partner of the World Health Summit for the first time.
Website
Registered users can create Stages ' and groups, upload content and participate in discussions, making them accessible to the expert network and a global audience their ideas. Science Days will act in this way as a catalyst for science and practice.
The content of the individual channel operators ( individuals, institutions, companies) or even set on its behalf by Science days. On Science Day video, audio and text content are bundled for the Open Access model or certain Creative Commons licenses apply (eg OpenCourseWare from MIT and TED Talks ).
In addition, the user gets access to external online document databases such as PubMed, IEEE and CiteSeer. The links take the user to the original content to the corresponding output pages and servers. Contents of internal databases and external databases such are the multimedia search and recommender systems linked together. Science Day can be characterized as science-oriented multimedia search engine so also.
The contents are generally monitored by the Science Days community. To allow the site comments, reviews and reporting of legally problematic content. Apart from that can be own favorite mark and create your own playlists for videos and audios.
Networking
Stages (profile pages)
Individuals and organizations can set up public profiles that are called stages. By means of uploaded content, users can introduce public their research projects, college or business. Uploaded content is linked with related content across all forms of multimedia file types ( video, audio, documents) as well as with relevant stages and groups.
Groups
If users have common interests or common knowledge, they can form groups or join a group. Regularly groups are formed to discuss or work on a joint project for a specific topic. Unlike Stages groups can be set to either public or private.
The group size is limited. Video, or other content may be assigned to a group by first uploading a corresponding content on the Stage own or embeds there and these are then added to the content of a group. In this way, Videos, Audio Files and documents can be put together in a group and are linked together by multiple users from academia and / or practice.