{"id":3691,"date":"2015-06-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/msr_er\/2015\/06\/26\/announcing-the-microsoft-academic-graph-let-the-research-begin\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:29:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:29:12","slug":"announcing-the-microsoft-academic-graph-let-the-research-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/announcing-the-microsoft-academic-graph-let-the-research-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Microsoft Academic Graph: Let the research begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: medium\">The published research generated by the global research community constitutes a diary of humankind&rsquo;s scientific achievements. As this output grows year after year, it creates new opportunities for further inquiry&mdash;and new challenges in dealing with the volume and complexity of the information. As a result, scholarly big data has been the focus of a growing number of recent research workshops, such as: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: small\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/crystal.exp.sis.pitt.edu:8080\/SBD14\/\" target=\"_blank\">Workshop on Challenges & Issues on Scholarly Big Data Discovery and Collaboration<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (SBD 2014 at IEEE Big Data, October 2014) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: small\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/Workshops\/ws15workshops.php\" target=\"_blank\">Scholarly Big Data: AI Perspectives, Challenges, and Ideas<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (at AAAI-15, January 2015) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: small\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.www2015.it\/workshops-18\/\" target=\"_blank\">2<sup>nd<\/sup> WWW Workshop on Big Scholarly Data: Towards the Web of Scholars<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (BigScholar at WWW 2015, May 2015) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: small\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/project.core.ac.uk\/jcdl2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">4<sup>th<\/sup> International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (WOSP at JCDL 2015, June 2015) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: medium\">For our part, Microsoft Research announced last summer that <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/academic.research.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Academic Search<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> was evolving from a research project into full-scale production powered by Bing (see <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/inside_microsoft_research\/archive\/2014\/07\/14\/making-cortana-the-researcher-s-dream-assistant.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Making Cortana the Researcher&rsquo;s Dream Assistant<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>). In addition to integrating scholarly publications directly into Bing search results and Cortana&rsquo;s notification system, we are taking full advantage of Bing&rsquo;s capacity to crawl the web and generate structured information from unstructured text. Our Academic Graph of research publications, authors, journals, conferences, universities and fields of study has grown significantly, more than doubling the number of publication records of the previous iteration and offering nearly three times the number of citations between publications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: medium\">While our graph continues to grow, today we are announcing the release of a snapshot of this graph for the research community, in an effort to jumpstart new avenues of research at web scale. The <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/aka.ms\/academicgraph\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> can be used immediately. The data is stored as a set of text files, one for each entity in the graph, and one for each relationship type between the entities (paper-paper citations, author-paper, paper-topic and so forth). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: medium\">Professor Jevin West, of the University of Washington&rsquo;s Information School, calls the MAG a game changer. &ldquo;There has never been a release of bibliographic data at this scale,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It will allow researchers to study the structure of scientific knowledge, build better algorithms for mapping the ever-expanding corpus and improving information retrieval. I have been waiting for news like this for years. Let the research begin!&rdquo;<em> <\/em><em>&#8239; &#8239;<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: medium\">You can download the MAG data directly from Microsoft Azure, or you can mount it from Azure blob storage directly into your own Azure virtual machine. Due to the size of the data, researchers may find it advantageous to use Microsoft&rsquo;s scalable cloud infrastructure, and to this end, we are encouraging researchers to also apply for an <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-US\/projects\/azure\/awards.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Azure for Research award<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> to support their research efforts. Simply include #academicgraph in your award submission&mdash;the next deadline is August 15, 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: medium\">As Professor West says, let the research begin! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: medium\">&mdash;<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/people\/awade\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alex Wade<\/em><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><em>, Director of Scholarly Communications, Microsoft Research<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: medium\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: small\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/aka.ms\/academicgraph\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Academic Graph<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: small\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/apps\/pubs\/default.aspx?id=246609\" target=\"_blank\">An Overview of Microsoft Academic Service (MAS) and Applications<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: small\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/azure4research.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azure for Research<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Azure<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;font-size: small\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/academic.research.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Academic Search<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The published research generated by the global research community constitutes a diary of humankind&rsquo;s scientific achievements. 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