In our latest podcast I talk with Savas Parastatidis and Alex Wade, members of the External Research Team within Microsoft Research. We discuss Microsoft Research’s interest in scholarly communication and the recent beta release of Famulus, their ‘Research-Output Repository Platform.’

Towards the end of the conversation we explore the relationship between the Semantic Web and Microsoft’s notion of Semantic Computing.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Article Authoring plugin
• BioLit project
• British Library
• Creative Commons plugin
• DSpace (and a recent podcast with Michele Kimpton and Sandy Payette)
• e-Journal hosted service
• ePrints
• Famulus
• Fedora (and a recent podcast with Michele Kimpton and Sandy Payette)
• Tony Hey
• Live Mesh
• Microsoft
• Microsoft Research
• National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• OfficeSWORD plugin
• Open Repositories Conference 2008
• ORE (and a recent podcast with Herbert van de Sompel)
• PubMed
• Research Information Centre
• SWORD
• University of California, San Diego
• University of Cambridge
• University of Newcastle

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 14 October, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.For other Talis podcasts in this Xiphos series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.