It looks like this is a possibly independent project to expose an RDF set over the Microsoft Academic Graph. More information about that here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-a...

The above link also references the Open Academic Graph: https://www.openacademic.ai/oag/

Disclaimer: Microsoft employee, in a totally different part of the company and with no actual clue other than Googling the above. Also, Nazgûl.