1. | Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
| Director—Portfolio Strategy
Microsoft Research

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Outreach. Collaboration. Innovation.
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http://research.microsoft.com/collaboration/

3. Quick Tour
• VIVO—a network for academic researchers
• ORCID—a unique ID for researchers
• DataVerse—a platform for sharing data
• DataCite—a protocol/mechanism for citing
data + attribution
• Total Impact—capturing the true footprint
of research
• DuraCloud – open cloud platform for
storage and preservation
• Microsoft Academic Search—a platform for
discovery

4. VIVO
http://vivoweb.org/
• “Enabling National Networking of Scientists”
• Originally developed at Cornell University in 2003
• Expanded in 2009 through a $12.2M stimulus grant from the National Center
for Research Resources (NCRR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• An open source semantic web application that enables the discovery of
research and scholarship across disciplines at a particular institution and
beyond.
• Populated with detailed profiles of faculty and researchers including
information such as publications, teaching, service, and professional
affiliations.
• Provides search functionality for locating people and information within the
institution

5. ORCID
http://www.orcid.org/
• Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) Initiative
– A non-profit organization dedicated to solving the name ambiguity problem in
scholarly research and brings together the leaders of the most influential
universities, funding organizations, societies, publishers and corporations from
around the globe.
• Goal: The ideal solution is to establish a registry that is
adopted and embraced as the de facto standard by the whole
of the community.
• Initiated by Thomson-Reuters & Nature Publishing, ORCID now
has 44 Founding Sponsors and 250+ participating
organizations.
• Already some preliminary VIVO / ORCID joint implementations
• Deliverable anticipated: Query & Deposit APIs in test this fall,
aiming for beta in (late) Spring 2012

6. Brown University
Psychoceramics
Professor

7. Harvard’s “Dataverse” Project
http://thedata.org
Via web application software, data citation standards, and statistical methods, the
Dataverse Network project increases scholarly recognition and distributed control
for authors, journals, archives, teachers, and others who produce or organize data;
facilitates data access and analysis for researchers and students; and ensures long-
term preservation whether or not the data are in the public domain. [From the
Institute of Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University]

9. DataCite
http://datacite.org/
• An emerging protocol for citing data, based on DOIs.
• Founded jointly by TIB (Germany) and the British Library
• Goals:
– Establish easier access to research data on the Internet
– Increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable
contributions to the scholarly record
– Support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and
re-purposed for future study
• Currently:
– 15 members
– Over 1,000,000 DOIs registered [Digital Object Identifier]
– Metadata specifications released
– Shared technical infrastructure established

10. Total Impact
http://total-impact.org/
• A website that allows one to view the impact of a wide range
of research output. It goes beyond traditional measurements
of research output -- citations to papers -- to embrace a much
broader evidence of use across a wide range of scholarly
output types. The system aggregates impact data from many
sources and displays it in a single report, which is given a
permaURL for dissemination and can be updated any time.
• Total Impact can track a wide range of research artifacts—
including papers, datasets, software, preprints, and slides.
• See also:
– altmetric.com API demo
– CitedIn
– PLoS Article-Level Metrics application
– ReaderMeter
– Science Card
– Press Forward initiative

13. DuraCloud
http://duracloud.org/
• “A hosted service and open technology developed by
DuraSpace that makes it easy for organizations and
end users to use cloud services. DuraCloud leverages
existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and
access to digital content.”
• Officially launched v1 this week!
• 11 pilot partners, including—Columbia University,
Northwestern University, Rice University, et al.

14. Courtesy: DuraCloud

16. Explore over 36.6 million publications
http://academic.research.microsoft.com

17. MSR Academic Search data comes from open access
repositories, publishers, scholarly societies, aggregators,
and web crawls
– Currently 36.6M papers across 14 domains
• More than 75M papers in the queue

19. Embed
Author
network
author
Citing Papers

21. Editing

22. Embedding

23. Alerts
Papers Edit
publication
Export
Links to fulltext
Citation History
and Context
References &
Citing Papers

24. Alerts
Top …
Usage History
keyword
Definitions

25. Top …
Sort
journal

26. Compare
Domain
Trends
organization

29. Public API
• Application Programming Interface
– Supports queries against all academic entities and
their basic info
• With the API, you can
– Work with others to share info
– Help users to build useful clients
• All openly available to everyone
– Targeting the academic community
– API is available for non-commercial use only
API details at http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#5

30. http://mas.eigenfactor.org/

31. The Scholarly DataVerse
Communication Collaboration
Lifecycle VIVO
Data
Collection,
Research &
Analysis
DuraCloud Storage, ORCID &
Archiving & Authoring
&
Preservation Total
DataVerse Impact
Publication &
Dissemination
Discoverability
VIVO &
Microsoft DataCite &
Academic Search DataVerse

32. Thank you!
Lee Dirks
Director, Portfolio Strategy
Microsoft Research | Connections
ldirks@microsoft.com or scholar@microsoft.com
URL – http://www.microsoft.com/scholarlycomm/
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