[Forwarding from Microsoft. --Peter Suber.]
(apologies for cross-postings) *Interested in new visualization interfaces, powerful semantic tools, and interoperability with Microsoft technologies to enhance your repository?* *Microsoft Research* <http://www.microsoft.com/scholarlycomm> will be hosting a workshop at the Open Repositories 2010 meeting in Madrid, Spain on from 14:00 – 18:30 on Friday, July 9th ( http://or2010.fecyt.es/Publico/WorkShop/index.aspx#b1). The full workshop description is provided below, but we wanted to let attendees know that *registration is currently open*. Please email us at scho...@microsoft.com to reserve your spot. We hope you will join us! *Tools for Repositories: Microsoft Research & the Scholarly Information Ecosystem * *Microsoft External Research supports the process of research and its role in the innovation ecosystem, including developing and supporting efforts in open access, open tools, open technology, and interoperability. Microsoft External Research partners with universities, national libraries, publishers, and governmental organizations to help develop tools and services to evolve the scholarly information lifecycle. These projects demonstrate our ongoing work towards producing next-generation documents that increase productivity and empower authors to increase the discoverability and appropriate re-use of their work. This workshop will provide a deep dive into several freely available tools from Microsoft External Research, and will demonstrate how these can help supplement and enhance current repository offerings. Come learn more about how the Microsoft Research tools can help extend the reach and utility of your repository efforts. Each session during the day will include a hands-on component so that attendees can gain a deeper technical understanding of the available toolset, which includes the following resources:* • Zentity <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/zentity/> -A research-output repository platform o Version 2.0 Technical Preview o Introductions to Pivot <http://www.getpivot.com/> from Microsoft Live Labs, the Open Data Protocol (ODATA <http://www.odata.org/>), PowerShell<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell>, and Power Pivot <http://www.powerpivot.com/>. o Programming with Zentity – Zentity SDK o Services for Repositories • Research Information Centre Framework<http://research.microsoft.com/ric>(RIC) – a collaboration space for researchers • Tools for Authors o Chemistry Add-in for Word <http://research.microsoft.com/chem4word>– presented by Dr. Joe Townsend, University of Cambridge o Structured document authoring<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/authoring/>(based on the NLM-DTD) – Article Authoring Add-in (v2.0 Beta 3 Technical Preview) o Ontology integration and markup <http://research.microsoft.com/ontology>– Word Add-in for Ontology Recognition (Beta 2 Technical Preview) o Article repository submission workflow (via SWORD interfaces) More information on each of these tools can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/scholarlycomm *Program* 14:00 – 14:15 *Welcome & Overview* Lee Dirks – Director, Education & Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research 14:15 – 15:45 *Zentity –*A Research Output Repository Platform* Featuring Pivot, ODATA, PowerShell, Excel/Power Pivot * Oscar Naim – Sr. Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research 15:45 – 16:00 *Programming with Zentity - SDK* Oscar Naim 16:00 – 16:30 Break 16:30 – 17:00 *Services for Repositories - RIC* Alex Wade – Director, Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research 17:00 – 18:15 *Tools for Authors* Alex Wade & Joe Townsend, Cambridge University 18:15 – 18:30 *Wrap-up & Futures Discussion* Lee Dirks To register, please email us at scho...@microsoft.com We look forward to having you join us! -jld *Lee Dirks* Director, Education & Scholarly Communication | Microsoft Corporation - External Research | ldi...@microsoft.com | (425) 703-6866 | http://microsoft.com/scholarlycomm
