April 2008 - Posts

• Local Roads Traffic in maps.live.com

  (This blog has been moved from previous blog site) I was pleasantly surprised to notice that http://maps.live.com (Live Search Maps provided by Microsoft) shows the traffic alerts in some of the major local roads in Greater Seattle Area. Most of the online traffic or map services only show the Freeway and major Highway traffic.   This is definitely [...] Posted Apr 17 2008, 05:55 AM by Santosh Balasubramanian's Weblog Filed under: Uncategorized

• Video in honor of Ashrith’s first chemo-free month in over a year

  Amazing video made by my cousin Meera for my nephew Ashrith. Ashrith was diagnosed with infant acute lymphocytic leukemia last year when he was 10 months old. He went through treatment and chemotherapy at the CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) since last March (07). I am overjoyed and ecstatic to say that Ashrith has been off [...] Posted Apr 07 2008, 06:08 AM by Santosh Balasubramanian's Weblog Filed under: Personal

• More online information on our repository platform

  (This blog has been moved from previous blog site) Demo -   Savas Parastatidis (architect of the Microsoft repository platform) created a demo for Open Repositories Challenge 2008 that shows the ability to pull data from two repositories, create the appropriate relationships and display the relationships in a WPF based network graph. He pulls the relationships b/w [...] Posted Apr 04 2008, 05:55 AM by Santosh Balasubramanian's Weblog Filed under: Uncategorized

• Successful Presentation of the Microsoft Research Output Repository Platform at Open Repositories Conference

  (This blog has been moved from previous blog site) <EDITED UpdatedDate=”Apr 4 08″> Slides - http://pubs.or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/84/1/Research_Output_Repositories_-_Microsoft_Initiatives.pdf  </EDITED> The Presentation at the Conference today went well (Monday session was held by Microsoft for interop b/w repositories, with a few known members of the community). This session was open to all members of the conference - we had a decent [...] Posted Apr 02 2008, 05:54 AM by Santosh Balasubramanian's Weblog Filed under: Uncategorized

• Microsoft Research Output Repository Platform Previewed

  (This blog has been moved from previous blog site)   Project Info - http://savas.parastatidis.name/2008/03/24/19a7fa4a-560d-47b4-bbea-9a22e9824bb8.aspx    Microsoft presentation of the Scholarly Communications space and Research Output Repository platform on Monday (3/31) went very well. this was followed by presentation by leaders/members of other repositories, protocols in the Institutional Repository space. There was a rich discussion around repositories, interop between repositories, [...] Posted Apr 02 2008, 05:53 AM by Santosh Balasubramanian's Weblog Filed under: Uncategorized