Abstract
Sharing results of research projects with the public and transferring solutions into practice is part of research projects. Typical ways are scientific publications, presentations at industry events, or project websites. However, in the last one and a half years, we have created videos and shared video material on our YouTube channel as a new way of disseminating results in our project setting. We have observed that many research projects do not follow this path, do this only with a very limited number of videos, or provide rather poor quality of the videos. In this article, we want to share our experience and our first steps, together with open issues for new and more videos we are planning to produce. We would also like to encourage discussions in the research community on whether this is a worthwhile direction to pursue further in the future.
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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, cf. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera.
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Røde Wireless Go II, cf. https://rode.com/de/microphones/wireless/wirelessgoii.
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Blackmagic Atem Mini Pro Iso https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/de/products/atemmini.
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The research described in this paper was performed in the EnStadt:Pfaff project (grant no. 03SBE112D and 03SBE112G) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). We thank Sonnhild Namingha for proofreading.
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Elberzhager, F., Mennig, P., Stüpfert, P. (2022). Building a YouTube Channel for Science Communication. In: Kotsis, G., et al. Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2022 Workshops. DEXA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1633. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14343-4_17
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