A presentation by Alex Wade of Microsoft at the Repositories and the Cloud meeting organised by Eduserv and JISC in London on Feb 23 2010.

1. Cloud Services for Repositories Alex D Wade Director – Scholarly Communication Microsoft Research

2. Data/information is inter-connected through machine-interpretable information (e.g. paper X is about star Y) Social networks are a special case of ‘data meshes’ A knowledge ecosystem: A richer authoring experience An ecosystem of services Semantic storage Open, Collaborative,Interoperable, and Automatic Moving to a world where all data is linked … Attribution: Chris Bizer

3. … and can be stored/analyzed in the Cloud visualization and analysis services Vision of Future Research e-Infrastructure using Client + Cloud resources scholarly communications domain-specific services search books citations blogs &social networking Reference management instant messaging identity mail Project management notification document store storage/data services knowledge management The Microsoft Technical Computing mission to reduce time to scientific insights is exemplified by the June 13, 2007 release of a set of four free software tools designed to advance AIDS vaccine research. The code for the tools is available now via CodePlex, an online portal created by Microsoft in 2006 to foster collaborative software development projects and host shared source code. Microsoft researchers hope that the tools will help the worldwide scientific community take new strides toward an AIDS vaccine. See more. compute services virtualization knowledge discovery

4. A “Smart” Cyberinfrastructure for Research” http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/12/52840-a-smart-cyberinfrastructure-for-research

5. This has happened before…

8. Cloud Services On-Premises Visual Studio & .NET “Oslo” - Modeling Partners

10. Typical scenario is focused on data

11. Distribute some existing workloads to the cloud

12. Typical scenario involves deploying code to cloud infrastructure

14. Collaboration (RIC in the Cloud) Migrate Research Information Centre Business Productivity Online Suite

15. RIC  Repository Simple “Publish to Repository” action from project sites Papers Presentations Workflows Datasets Images Videos etc. send to object

16. Cloud Services for Repositories Create Azure as a Research Platform Data Services Data Curation Excel Data Services & REST Integration with RIC OGDISDK Indexing and Data Mining Academic Search EntityCube

18. Excel & Excel Services Interactive PivotTables Dashboards and heat maps Data Slicers REST APIs

19. OGDI SDK - (http://ogdi.codeplex.com/)

20. Microsoft Academic Search http://academic.research.microsoft.com

21. EntityCube http://entitycube.research.microsoft.com

22. EntityCube

23. EntityCube

26. Free PDF DownloadAmazon Kindle version; Paperback print on demand http://research.microsoft.com/fourthparadigm/ “The impact of Jim Gray’s thinking is continuing to get people to think in a new way about how data and software are redefining what it means to do science." — Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation “One of the greatest challenges for 21st-century science is how we respond to this new era of data-intensive science. This is recognized as a new paradigm beyond experimental and theoretical research and computer simulations of natural phenomena—one that requires new tools, techniques, and ways of working.” — Douglas Kell, University of Manchester “The contributing authors in this volume have done an extraordinary job of helping to refine an understanding of this new paradigm from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.” — Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research

27. Thanks! Alex D Wade awade@microsoft.com