Cloud Services for Repositories
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Alex D Wade Director – Scholarly Communication Microsoft Research Cloud Services for Repositories
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A presentation by Alex Wade of Microsoft at the Repositories and the Cloud meeting organised by Eduserv and JISC in London on Feb 23 2010.
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Alex D WadeDirector – Scholarly CommunicationMicrosoft Research
Cloud Services for Repositories
A knowledge ecosystem: A richer authoring experienceAn ecosystem of servicesSemantic storage Open, Collaborative,Interoperable, and Automatic
Data/information is inter-connected through machine-interpretable information (e.g. paper X is about star Y)Social networks are a special case of ‘data meshes’
Moving to a world where all data is linked …
Attribution: Chris Bizer
… and can be stored/analyzed in the Cloud
scholarly communications
domain-specific services
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instant messaging
identity
document store
blogs &social
networking
notification
searchbooks
citations
visualization and analysis services
storage/data services
computeservices
virtualization
Project management
Reference management
knowledge management
knowledge discovery
Vision of Future Researche-Infrastructure usingClient + Cloud resources
A “Smart” Cyberinfrastructure for Research”
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/12/52840-a-smart-cyberinfrastructure-for-research
This has happened before…
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Electrical Grid Adoption
• Utility computing [infrastructure/IaaS] Provide a data center and a way to host client VMs and data.Developers, not end-users, are the target of this kind of cloud computing.
• Platform as a Service [platform/PaaS] Provide a programming environment to build a cloud application The cloud deploys and manages the app for the client
• End-user applications [software/SaaS] Delivery of software from the cloud to the desktopAny web application is a cloud application in the sense that it resides in the cloud. Google, Amazon, Facebook, twitter, flickr, and virtually every other Web 2.0 application is a cloud application in this sense.
Types of Cloud Computing
From: Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Radar (10/26/08)—”Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing”
Visual Studio & .NET
“Oslo” - Modeling
Partners
Microsoft Research Cloud Services Scenarios
Enhance Migrate Create
• Extend existing on-premises applications via selective use of services
•Typical scenario is focused on data
• Distribute some existing workloads to the cloud
•Typical scenario involves deploying code to cloud infrastructure
• Create new scenarios by composing from multiple services & integrating on-premises assets
Zentity Cloud Storage
Enhance
Deployment option for having content storage in the cloud
Collaboration (RIC in the Cloud)
Business Productivity Online Suite
Research Information Centre
Migrate
RIC Repository
Simple “Publish to Repository” action from project sites
PapersPresentationsWorkflowsDatasetsImagesVideosetc.
send to object
Cloud Services for Repositories
Azure as a Research PlatformData Services
Data CurationExcel Data Services & RESTIntegration with RICOGDISDK
Indexing and Data MiningAcademic SearchEntityCube
Create
Excel & Excel Services
Interactive PivotTables
Dashboards and heat maps
Data Slicers
REST APIs
OGDI SDK - (http://ogdi.codeplex.com/)
Microsoft Academic Search
http://academic.research.microsoft.com
EntityCube
EntityCube
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