eScience @ Microsoft : Collaboration

MSR Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies

eScience — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:46 GMT

At ETech 2009 today, the announcement went out that Science Commons in conjunction with MSR External Research released the source code to two Word 2007 add-ins to allow scientists to markup terms and phrases in their documents/papers with ontologies, such as the ones at http://neurocommons.org. Some of this is based on previous collaboration with Phil Bourne from UCSD.

“Microsoft’s openness in working with the Science Commons has significant implications for the scientific research community because it will make it easy for authors to link their documents straight into the semantic Web of science — making that research, data and material easier to find and use,” said Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D.

You can seem more about the add-ins at Pablo’s Blog - Ontology Add-in for Word 2007

Microsoft Releases Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies

REDMOND, Wash., and SAN JOSE, Calif. — March 11, 2009 — The nuggets of information necessary for science to progress are often hard to find, submerged deep within the Web, or within databases that can’t be easily accessed or integrated. As a result, many scientists today work in relative isolation, follow blind alleys and unnecessarily duplicate existing research.

Addressing this critical challenge for researchers, Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons announced today, before an industry panel at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech 2009, http://en.oreilly.com/et2009 ), the release of the Ontology Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 that will enable authors to easily add scientific hyperlinks as semantic annotations, drawn from ontologies, to their documents and research papers. Ontologies are shared vocabularies created and maintained by different academic domains to model their fields of study.

This Add-in will make it easier for scientists to link their documents to the Web in a meaningful way. Deployed on a wide scale, ontology-enabled scientific publishing will provide a Web boost to scientific discovery.

Science Commons, a division of Creative Commons, is incubating the adoption of semantic scientific publishing through creation of a robust database of ontologies (http://neurocommons.org) and development of supporting technical standards and code. Microsoft Research has built a technology bridge to enable the link between Microsoft Office Word 2007 and these ontologies.

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Microsoft Releases Open Tools to Enhance Scientific Research Efforts Building on Science Commons Ontologies: Breakthrough collaboration helps researchers make easier connections on the Web.

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

NGO - Nonprofit Connection

eScience — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:48:28 GMT

Just ran across the NGO Connection site – this is the place for non-profit orgs in the scientific space to look into….

NGO Connection is an online resource for non-profit groups around the world that provides resources to help advance the causes of the NGOs. See http://www.microsoft.com/ngo for more information about

Getting free and discounted software

Free access to Online software such as Windows Live, Microsoft Office Live and other online applications

Software grants through the Microsoft Software Donation program

Access to low cost personal computers and other hardware products

Refurbished Computers from the Community Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (MAR) program

donated and discounted hardware from TechSoup for Refurbished computers, networks accessories, switches and routers

learning about software support resources and other grant benefits

Microsoft Support Resources

Software Grant Support

getting training material and information about obtaining certification

NGO Connection

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

January update to Science @ Microsoft

eScience — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:02:52 GMT

The January update to the Technical Computing @ Microsoft site (www.microsoft.com/science) is up:

Spotlighting the SwissEx Collaboration with EPFL.
A feature entitled “Determining Fundamental Principles of RNA Structure with Comparative Sequence Analysis” about Dr. Robin Gutell (University of Texas at Austin) and the MSR collaboration (Stuart Ozer) around the use of SQL Server.
A highlight of the Microsoft Rainier Cluster using Windows HPC Server 2008 and how it’s more 30% more efficient.
Story about the American Geophysical Union’s conference in San Francisco last month and MSR contributions (Catharine Van Ingen) to the climate community.
Updates to the Books & Papers page, including the paper “A Virtual Research Environment for Bioscience Researchers”.

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Supercomputing 07

eScience — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:24:34 GMT

Was at Supercomputing last week - overall the event went really well. There was also a few announcements from the HPC team - the big one being the name and beta availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 and the new banners.

Attended part of the Manycore and Multicore Computing: Architectures, Applications And Directions Workshop, which had a packed house - I'm guessing due to both the topic as well as the stellar list of speakers.

In the Microsoft booth at SC - our collaborators from UCSD and Oxford had a optiputer demo featuring a large multi-tile display showing HD Streams of researchers at Oxford using a microscope at UCSD and analyzing the results on a a HPC Cluster at Oxford - all while collaborating using the display.

One highlights of the event - was an international man of mystery giving out awards to the HPC institutes..

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

eScience group on Facebook

eScience — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:20:59 GMT

Early this week Savas and I were discussing social networking ideas and we decided to create a eScience group on Facebook to see if that would help bring the community together and share ideas. Feel free to join

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 - March 3-6, 2008

eScience — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:59:02 GMT

The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 - March 3-6, 2008 in Seattle. Sign up here

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)

Social Bookmarking Tags for Windows Live Writer

eScience — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:25:20 GMT

Nice to see this feature added to Live Writer - especially since it also supports some many of tagging options...I'm even testing out Live Favorites

Social Bookmarking Tags for Windows Live Writer

I am not very good in keeping promises, but this time I will make an exception :) I promised a while ago that I will create a WLW plugin for the Social Bookmarking Tool that would ease the process of creating social bookmarking tags automatically for the blog posts. So, finally... I release this version of Social Bookmarking Tags generator which will be a plugin in Windows Live Writer.

Source: Rahul Soni's blog - Never assume the obvious is true... : Social Bookmarking Tags for Windows Live Writer

Cross Posted from Dan Fay's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/dan_fay)