MSR Research Output Repository Platform @ Dev8D

Lee Dirks — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:44:24 GMT

Come participate in the JISC Developer Happiness Days at Birkbeck, University of London, and join us on Friday, February 13^th for a half-day exploration of the MSR Research Output Repository Platform (codename “Famulus”). Alex Wade and Savas Parastatidis from Microsoft External Research will be there to keep the happiness flowing and will combine a few short demos with lots of hands-on labs and interactive sessions. We will show off some of the great new features coming in Beta 2 (RDFs support, data model extensibility, semantic-store integrated authorization, etc.) and will share lots of code samples (e.g. simple inferencing). Let us know what you want to cover! The MSR Research Output Repository Platform is a freely available platform built on top of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and the ADO.Net 3.5 Entity-Framework. Beta 1 of the platform is currently available here. We will also bring along an early drop of our pending beta 2 release, and will help you get it installed on your laptop if you want to play along! Software! Prizes! Beer!

If you plan to join us on Friday, please register for the Dev8D event and drop us a note at scholar@microsoft.com and provide your name & institution.