Microsoft's first Jim Gray award goes to Carol Goble

Carol Goble receives Jim Gray e-science award.

The future of research

An insighful talk by Carole Goble who is a professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester

She touches to some very important key topics like: growth of scientific data and datasets, linking from full-text journals to database and multi-media content, increasing collaboration in research, open science, services, APIs and science mashups (including a Scopus example)

The Future of Research (Science and Technology)

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Microsoft supporting scholarly communication lifecycle

At the ninth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft announced the following services which were developed by partnering with Academia:

• Add-ins. The Article Authoring Add-in for Word 2007 enables metadata to be captured at the authoring stage to preserve document structure and semantic information throughout the publishing process, which is essential for enabling search, discovery and analysis in subsequent stages of the life cycle. The Creative Commons Add-in for Office 2007 allows authors to embed Creative Commons licenses directly into an Office document (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) by linking to the Creative Commons site via a Web service.

• The Microsoft e-Journal Service. This offering provides a hosted, full-service solution that facilitates easy self-publishing of online-only journals to facilitate the availability of conference proceedings and small and medium-sized journals.

• Research Output Repository Platform. This platform helps capture and leverage semantic relationships among academic objects — such as papers, lectures, presentations and video — to greatly facilitate access to these items in exciting new ways.

• The Research Information Centre. In close partnership with the British Library, this collaborative workspace will be hosted via Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and will allow researchers to collaborate throughout the entire research project workflow, from seeking research funding to searching and collecting information, as well as managing data, papers and other research objects throughout the research process. via Microsoft PressPass

e-Science in action at myexperiment

myexperiment lets scientists share their research and scientific workflows.

If you are interested and trying to figure out applications in "scientific research workflow" watch these folks.

Microsoft releases Astoria

"The goal of Astoria is to facilitate the creation of flexible data services that are naturally integrated with the web"

"In order for the system to understand and leverage semantics over the data that is surfacing, Astoria models the data exposed through the data service using a model called the Entity Data Model (EDM), an Entity-Relationship derivative. This organizes the data in the form of instances of "entity types", or "entities", and the associations between them." via e-science

It would be very interesting to see how researchers and scientists will use scientific data with Astoria...