STI Product Factsheet for DOE Laboratory Researchers:

Scientific Videos

ABOUT STI

In the course of performing research and development (R&D) and other scientific and technological work, researchers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) produce scientific and technical information (STI) to document and disseminate their findings.

STI includes products such as journal articles, technical reports, conference presentations, books, and more. Through the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) collaborates with people across the DOE complex, including Headquarters programs, field offices, national laboratories, and other facilities. The STIP partnership ensures that the results of DOE- funded work are identified, disseminated, and preserved. Thus, OSTI collects STI produced across the DOE laboratory and facility complex as well as from financial assistance recipients.

DEFINITION

One emerging format of STI is categorized as videos or multimedia. DOE produces hundreds of STI videos each year with significant scientific and technical content. Like full‐text indexing of a document, content indexing of an audio or video file greatly enhances the retrievability of the STI as a whole and also enables a user to find the exact place in the video where the term he/she is searching for was actually spoken by the presenter or the narrator. These videos are typically from conferences and events where speakers or panels of speakers present the content. Webinars used to disseminate research results may also be recorded as a video. Whether the STI product is a conference presentation or some other event where Multimedia was used to present research results, the information can be made more easily accessible by announcing the item to OSTI.

SUBMISSIONS

Each DOE laboratory has a site program to manage scientific and technical information produced under the contract and to make it available to DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Each site's STI Manager is involved in the process; for more information, see the listing of STI Managers at https://www.osti.gov/stip/about/stip-community#STIManagers.

Sites are encouraged to provide metadata and a link to a video or audio file through the AN 241.1 on E‐Link, via Batch Upload, or via the AN 241.1 Web Service. The audiovisual formats that can be automatically downloaded, cached, and content‐indexed by OSTI as CO (conference/event) STI submissions are listed at https://www.osti.gov/stip/submit/product-types/audiovisual.