The field of metadata management is expanding all the time, and metadata is intrinsic to Project Barcelona.But what the heck is metadata anyway? A common definition is “data about data”. This is a very broad definition. It turns out there...

When we speak to customers about Project Barcelona, they tell us about their topology and various pain points. We've spoken to many customers at this point, upwards of 30, and certain patterns repeat over and over. The details change, sometimes it’s...

We've already been receiving great feedback on our sneak preview ! I wanted to take a moment to explain our graphical design direction as we've received some comments on this. A big influence on our design direction is current thinking on information...

The Project Barcelona team is excited to provide a sneak preview of our UI at projectbarcelona.cloudapp.net . This is a live working copy of our most recent milestone, set against a sample topology of a mythical music sales site of previously crawled...

Introduction The Barcelona Project will ship with a web UI aimed at the DBA/IT Pro. Being an extensible framework, other experiences could be built, for example for the information worker, or for a particular vertical application. In this article we’ll...

Most successful software projects usually have a really good long term vision in addition to more practical near term goals. Lately we have been thinking a lot about the long term vision for Project Barcelona. The conclusion we have come to is that...

The team has been working on finalizing the data model for Project Barcelona index server over the last few weeks. Below is the latest proposal based on the last design meeting the team had yesterday. We would love to hear what folks think of it. Thanks...

We have created a direct email option for anyone wishing to send us feedback about Project Barcelona: barfeedback@microsoft.com . Once the first CTP becomes publicly available, we will create a discussion group and/ or mailing list.

Kevin McGuire, a program manager on the Project Barcelona team, has recorded a short introduction to Project Barcelona presentation for channel 9. Enjoy! http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Introduction-to-Project-Barcelona

Early on in Project Barcelona, the team sat down one Friday afternoon and wrote down what we believed our design principles were for the product. These are values and guidelines that the team tries to follow when gathering requirements and thinking about...

We have been looking at various options to ensure that the design of Project Barcelona truly reflects the requirements of the day to day challenges faced by ETL developers and DBAs in the modern enterprise. In other words, we want to build the right solution...

What exactly is Project Barcelona? The overall Project Barcelona vision is to build a metadata information server providing reasoning about referential and dataflow relationships. Project Barcelona will support the needs of the modern enterprise...

The modern web is vast and decentralized topology of web sites and services connected via an almost infinite amount of links. Fortunately as the web has grown more complex, tools for understanding and leveraging the web have kept pace. The underlying...