http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/90.aspxA repository platform for storing scholarly works, and metadata about the scholarly works. The platform enables the development of new functionality and services on top of the repository.enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/thread/5440.aspxTue, 26 May 2009 18:17:35 GMTeaca9afb-5ccf-4c08-b3f3-369c7e6f1a06:5440Shailesh Nikam0http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/thread/5440.aspxhttp://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=90&PostID=5440<p>We are extremely pleased to announce public release of <strong>Zentity V 1.0</strong> !!!</p> <p>&quot;Zentity&quot; (official name for Research Output Repository Platform) is a semantic store (based on SQL Server 2008 and the Entity-Framework), and includes a ScholarlyWorks application designed to support the current wave of academic digital library and repository projects (e.g. to store people, papers, lectures, people, books, chapters, videos, etc. and a relationships like IsAuthorOf, Presented, Cites, IsCitedBy, etc.).&nbsp; </p> <p>High level repository features includes:<br />*<strong>Built-in Scholarly Works data model</strong> with predefined resource types, metadata properties and relationships<br />*<strong>Core data model with extensibility</strong>, which can be used to create custom data models, even for domains other than Scholarly Communications<br />*<strong>Extensive Search</strong> similar to Advanced Query Syntax (<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965711(VS.85).aspx" title="AQS">AQS</a>)<br />*<strong>Pluggable Authentication</strong> and Authorization Security API<br />*<strong>Basic Web-based User Interface</strong> to browse and manage resources with reusable custom controls<br />*<strong>RSS/ATOM, OAI-PMH, AtomPub, SWORD</strong> Services for exposing resource information<br />*<strong>Extensive help</strong> with code samples extend the platform by developers </p> <p>Links:<br />*<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/zentity/" title="Zentity">Zentity Project page</a> (w/ download link and <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=80867" title="Zentity Installation Instructions">installation instructions</a>)<br />*<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/zentity-052009.aspx" title="Facilitating Semantic Research">Facilitating Semantic Research</a> (interview with Lee, Savas, &amp; Alex)</p> <p>Please feel free to download and try it out. Use this forum to let us know if you face any issues. We will appreciate your feedback.<br />Note: If you have any earlier beta versions, please uninstall the same, along with deleting any specific database before continuing with Version 1.0 installation.</p> <p><br />Regards,<br />Shailesh</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>