Review Postnauka & Elementy

[ana-kuznetsova]

1) Review and analyse postnauka.ru и elementy.ru according to the checklist: First-person speech; Set of rubrics & headings; Layout of expert's opinion in html code (if there is one). 2) Contact Postnauka and ask for data.

[kssamoylenko]

PostNauka was created as a media source, where scientists could tell about their research. That’s why two main types of contents are: 1) Short lectures (each about 15 min) with transcripts 2) FAQ — texts, based on interview with an expert

PostNauka covers a lot of different areas: physics, media studies, history, biology and so on. PostNauka doesn’t publish news, but always takes comments about Nobel prize and sometimes makes so called “Point of view” – bunch of experts’s comments about some actual phenomen (Brexit, for example).

There are some extra formats in PostNauka, using of which in our project is a little bit doubtful:

• Articles (most of them were written specially for PostNauka, or taken from scientific journals. Most likely they are OK for us)
• “talks” – longreads with speaker about his life, career, views, popularization, and so on. Barely about science, but could be useful as example of scientist’s speech
• “chapters” – parts of some new books by russian authors, or translated from other languages. Doubtful, because scientific-popular books are not the same as texts and video in Internet;
• subject selections — 5 books about Nikolay II, 5 films about euthanasia, and so on - is it useful for us?
• micro formats (tests, animations) – guess that we're not going to use them.

Most of the texts (faq, video, articles) are “direct speech”. If there is an interview with editor’s questions, questions a marked with<b></b>. Headers and leads marked with <em></em> and <h3></h3>. Author’s name usually mention in title or subtitle, at the end of the article and in tegs.
“Talks” are separated from FAQs and videos by url, but articles and chapters are in the same sections. By the way, chapters always have an especial lead or title, so they can be somehow sorted.

No API.

[kssamoylenko]

Elementy.ru is a huge encyclopedia about everything. The main specification is exacts sciences; there are no humanities.

The most interesting section for us is news: they are sometimes written by editors of element, but we can also find there real scientists. And it’s not easy to solve who is who.

There is one especial section about LHC, supervised by a scientis. Other rubrics on element are not very suitable for us: book summary’s, puzzles, calendar, catalogues of sources.

No API.