Web of Stories
Web of Stories is an online collection of thousands of autobiographical video-stories. Web of Stories, originally known as Science Archive, was set up to record the life stories of scientists. When it expanded to include the lives of authors, movie makers, artists and others, it was renamed Peoples Archive, finally evolving to become Web of Stories in 2008.[1]
 Videos from Web of Stories | |
 Scientist Francis Crick, in 90 parts[2] | |
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Writer Philip Roth, in 163 parts[3] | |
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Architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, in 10 parts[4] |
The website has three main features:
- Video recordings of the life stories of a broad range of the acknowledged leaders of our time, including: holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer, physicist John Wheeler, watchmaker George Daniels, and authors Doris Lessing and Philip Roth, as well as 16 Nobel Prize winners, 19 Fellows of the Royal Society, 4 Pulitzer Prize winners, and 3 Academy Award winners.[5][6]
- Video collections from external groups, including charities Thyroid UK,[7] Changing Faces (charity)[8] and LAM Action.[9]
- Videos from the public who can record their own stories directly via the site, or from recordings previously made on their computer, video or mobile phone. All these stories are organised into channels (for example, ‘Love’, ‘War’ and ‘Health’).
Web of Stories is based in London, and is part of the Science Navigation Group, a group of scientific publishing companies which also publishes Faculty of 1000, and formerly published Global DataPoint, Postcode Gazette, Current BioData.[10][11]
References
- ↑ Hollander, Carly A (2010). "Web of Stories". Access to Knowledge: A Course Journal 2 (1). Retrieved May 20, 2013.
- ↑ "My mother's ambitions for me". Web of Stories. January 24, 2008 [1993]. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ↑ "Early days and my family". Web of Stories. March 18, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ↑ "Architecture as flexibility; form follows functions". Web of Stories. May 27, 2010. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ↑ "New Online www.webofstories.com". Metro (UK). December 13, 2011. p. 37.
- ↑ "Search results for Web of Stories". The British Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ↑ "Web of Stories Video Channel". Thyroid UK. 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ↑ "Changing Faces". Changing Faces. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ↑ LAM Action. "Tell Your Story At The New LAM Video site". LAM Action. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ↑ Scientific Navigation Group, accessed May 22, 2013
- ↑ Amy Charles (2010-08-19). "All in the family – Web of Stories". Lablit.com. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
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