[Orechem] MSR Repository platform (Famulus)

[Alex Wade]

>From the call today,  http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/48e60ac1-a95a-4163-a23d-28a914007743/
MSR's Research Output Repository Platform (codename "Famulus") aims to provide the necessary building blocks, tools, and services for developers who are tasked with creating and maintaining an organization's repository ecosystem. Furthermore, it provides an easy-to-install and maintain experience for those who want to quickly set up a research output repository for their project, team, or organization. The platform is based on Microsoft's technologies (SQL Server 2008 and .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1) hence taking advantage of their robustness, their quality support infrastructure, and the plethora of developer-focused documentation. New applications on top of the platform can be developed using any .NET language and the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 environment. The platform focuses on the management of research assets-such as people, papers, lectures, workflows, data, and tags - as well as the semantic relationships between them. Support for various services such as full-text search, OAI-PMH, RSS and Atom Syndication, BibTeX import and export, SWORD, AtomPub, and OAI-ORE are included as part of the distribution.
We will be releasing a beta 2 later next month and our v.1 release in the Spring.

---Alex

Alex D. Wade
Senior Research Program Manager | Education & Scholarly Communication | Microsoft Research
Email: Alex.Wade at microsoft.com<mailto:Alex.Wade at microsoft.com>

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