4. Microsoft Research Connections
Advance the
State of the Art
Work with the
worldwide academic
research community Inspire
Researchers &
to speed research, Scientists
improve education,
and foster innovation.
Accelerate
Discovery and
Exploration
5. Engagement and Collaboration Focus
Core Computer Natural User Earth, Education & Health &
Science Interface Energy & Scholarly Wellbeing
Environment Communication
6. Research Accelerators
Publishing
Scientific Research
Computing Management
Learning and
Exploration
http://research.microsoft.com/accelerators
7. Data-Intensive Research
Acquisition &
modelling
Collaboration
Archiving and
and
preserving
Data
visualisation
Dissemination Analysis &
& sharing data mining
8. Launched
February 2008
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
9. Earth Mode allows users to view a 3D model of the Earth, with a default data set with near
global coverage and resolution down to sub-meter in high-population centers. Unlike most Earth
viewers, WorldWide Telescope supports many different map projections including Mercator,
Equirectangular and TOAST. There are also map layers for seasonal, night, streets, hybrid and
science oriented MODIS imagery. The new layer manger can be used to add data visualization
on the Earth or other planets.
13. http://www.layerscape.org/
What you need to remember…
• Layerscape is a website for publishing, sharing/finding and
visualizing geo-specific data
• Built on top of Worldwide Telescope (WWT) as the
visualization engine [Windows rich client]
• It is a free service—hosted on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud offering
• Not just flat maps
– Powerful, interactive “experience engine”
– Easy to build tours
– Developing communities around data
19. What you need to remember about ChronoZoom
http://www.chronozoomproject.org/
• “Zoomable” interface that allows users to navigate quickly through multiple
rich media sources, sifting though astounding amounts of embedded data in a
variety of different formats
– Mash-up of video (YouTube, Vimeo); PDF; scanned documents; photos; maps;
charts/figures; live documents, etc.
– Coming soon – an open authoring platform
• Limited, trusted partners now
• Opening up to curated sets in V1.0
• Broad public access in ~1 year
• Facilitates learning across traditional silos
– Simultaneous learning, across time, across geographies, and spanning domains
– Opportunity to glean new insights
– In the near future, more powerful tools for permitting comparative research
• Enhances discovery: make bookmarks, build tours, powerful search
– Upload your content into private Chronozoom spaces – for individuals, domains,
families, organization, etc.
• A free web service (all HTML5), as well as an open source project managed
through the Outercurve Foundation at
http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ResearchAccelerators/ChronoZoom
20. Thank you!
@ldirks
Lee Dirks
Director, Portfolio Strategy
Microsoft Research | Connections
ldirks@microsoft.com or scholar@microsoft.com
URL – http://www.microsoft.com/scholarlycomm/
Facebook: Scholarly Communication at Microsoft
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