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I've often thought it would be great for the Arxiv to make it easy to link to a video of the 'talk' that generally goes with a paper. The talk is very often th

I've often thought it would be great for the Arxiv to make it easy to link to a video of the 'talk' that generally goes with a paper. The talk is very often the distillation of the ideas in the paper, as conducted by one of the involved researchers. Indeed, one of the main points of conferences is to allow us to trade these distilled versions of our research with one another and place them in the context of everything else going on...

cing 10y ago
Research posters too (which sometimes end up on FigShare). At least there are several journals that accept video abstracts, like: http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1367-2630/videoabstract/list/10/1 http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1367-2630/videoabstract/li...
jessriedel 10y ago
> I've often thought it would be great for the Arxiv to make it easy to link to a video of the 'talk' that generally goes with a paper. This has been in the idea pipeline for a while, but the arXiv is slow-moving. (They probably wouldn't host the actual video files for cost reasons, but that's not a big deal.) http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/09/02/additional-material-on-the-arxiv/ http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/09/02/additional-material-on...
mncharity 10y ago
> The talk is very often the distillation of the ideas This seemed a major omission of the OP. The distillation quality hierarchy goes something like 'conversation among best-in-field researchers', 'conversation with principals' and 'research talk by principals, plus subsequent questions/conversations', 'review paper', 'journal commentary' and 'papers' but... in many fields, papers really need some of the above to provide critical context. So a distillation system exists - it's just very very narrowly scoped. It's sad to see graduate students and young faculty who haven't "plugged-in", and so are not spending their time well. And it's depressing to see a 'conversation among best-in-field researchers' excoriating a perspective on a topic, knowing that broken perspective is how the topic is pervasively taught, graduate down to high-school, and it's not going to change any year soon. There being few incentives or mechanism to pipeline such insight into educational content. So yes, starting to build an expectation that talks become available as video, and are easily found, could be a non-trial step forward.

cing 10y ago

Research posters too (which sometimes end up on FigShare). At least there are several journals that accept video abstracts, like: http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1367-2630/videoabstract/list/10/1 http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1367-2630/videoabstract/li...

jessriedel 10y ago

> I've often thought it would be great for the Arxiv to make it easy to link to a video of the 'talk' that generally goes with a paper. This has been in the idea pipeline for a while, but the arXiv is slow-moving. (They probably wouldn't host the actual video files for cost reasons, but that's not a big deal.) http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/09/02/additional-material-on-the-arxiv/ http://blog.jessriedel.com/2015/09/02/additional-material-on...

mncharity 10y ago

> The talk is very often the distillation of the ideas This seemed a major omission of the OP. The distillation quality hierarchy goes something like 'conversation among best-in-field researchers', 'conversation with principals' and 'research talk by principals, plus subsequent questions/conversations', 'review paper', 'journal commentary' and 'papers' but... in many fields, papers really need some of the above to provide critical context. So a distillation system exists - it's just very very narrowly scoped. It's sad to see graduate students and young faculty who haven't "plugged-in", and so are not spending their time well. And it's depressing to see a 'conversation among best-in-field researchers' excoriating a perspective on a topic, knowing that broken perspective is how the topic is pervasively taught, graduate down to high-school, and it's not going to change any year soon. There being few incentives or mechanism to pipeline such insight into educational content. So yes, starting to build an expectation that talks become available as video, and are easily found, could be a non-trial step forward.