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How often have you heard someone say ” I dont know how you look for something in there” . Database querying and search has become an essential skill to possess in this genomic age. Be it PUBMED , FlyBase or the PDB, we all rely on these databases to find our everyday information.
As Jon Udell commented in his article on search strategies, database querying is definitely a skill , and good searchers tend to have deep and hidden reservoirs of tacit skill that they can harness . And, as he says , like many other skills effective search can be learned.
We at Bioscreencast.com believe that screencasts are a good way to capture user-database interactions . It was for this reason that we decided to have a category in our library called “Databases and Biosearch”. Thanks to uploads like the recent one from the PDB , we have user uploaded screencasts that show you how to search databases, ranging from the new Uniprot database , the gaggle proteomics workbench to the Membrane Protein databank .
We hope that the next time you hit on a clever querying strategy or put together a public database, you screencast it for us all to benefit from.
We are always wanting to get the word out about bioscreencast and the benefits of screencasting as a medium of sharing knowledge. The way we see it, we really want to get scientists and students alike sharing their screencasts on our site and try our best to tell everyone about it.
It felt nice to see our short spiel about our site featured on slideshare, which incidentally is a good way to share your presentations and slides with others.
Check out our slides on slideshare here
Well we always seems to have reasons for our silence..but this ones hard to beat. Deepak has been away at Scifoo , the foo camp organized by Tim Oreilly and Timo Hannay from the Nature publishing group.
You can catch the excitement at this years scifoo conference at deepaks twitter feed , his blog or his kyte TV channel . Also the scifoo community does a very good job of collecting posts related to the conference on the connotea a citation manager at the tag “scifoo“.
Deepak also managed to get his nose into a wonderful session by Moshe and the Jove gang on video in the sciences and even talked to Tim O’Reilly himself about screencasting. Sounds like a tonne of fun.Cant wait to hear more about what went on.
Hari for Bioscreencast.com
refs: For a screencast on using connotea to discover content check out this screencast
One of the features at Bioscreencast.com that we like , is our “Request Screencast” feature. Using the request screencast page you can put in your request for something you want to learn about and the hope is that our user community will respond. When you make a request, you can categorize and tag it. You can also vote on requests other users have made and that pushes the request up the ladder.
If you have a screencast that you created that fits a particular description we encourage you to use the upload button on this page to upload the movie to our library. Once a request is fulfilled , the person who first created the request will be notified by email.
You can watch a screencast describing this page functionality here. We hope you like this feature..to give it a whirl click the icon above, go to the request screencast page link from any Bioscreencast.com page
