Implementing Mark Logic Server in a Research Environment

Scientists, engineers and intellectual property professionals turn to the research expertise of Nerac for effective solutions. Nerac turned to Mark Logic to help provide better research tools for our analysts. This new model provides a rich research platform for content creation, storage, and searching. During this session you will see a live demonstration of Nerac's Advanced Research Environment, simulating a response to a client's research request. Nerac also will present statistics reflecting an increase in search performance after upgrading from Mark Logic version 3.0 to 3.1.

Presenters

Douglas Neary, Software Development Group Leader, Nerac Inc.
Doug has over 20 years experience with publisher and aggregator content formats and has also been the chief engineer of Nerac's proprietary federated search engine. As Development Group Leader, Doug is also responsible for managing the implementation and support of XML related technologies and guiding transition to a new content resolver and search technology.

John Sattar, Senior Developer, Nerac Inc.
John has over 15 years of experience and expertise in developing applications and modules to support federated print output delivery. Recently John has engineered the transition of content delivery from a propriety content delivery platform to an open system XML based technology. John uses XSLT, XSLFO, XPATH, XQUERY, and JAVA as part of the transition solution. John also has hands-on experience in data migrating of structured and unstructured data content to an XML format.

Gary Placzek, Systems Advisor, Nerac Inc. Gary's background includes a BS in EE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he focused on the application of adaptive filtering methods to ground penetrating radar data to help distinguish signal from noise. After working for 13 years with the US Geological Survey, he began his work at Nerac where he is currently helping to create systems that address needs within the information industry and beyond.

Enabling Best-of-Breed Digital Asset Management with MarkLogic Server

A key strategy for McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) revolves around the organization's ability to leverage technology to improve revenue and profit. In this session you will learn how MHE developed their Digital Asset Library (DAL). Implemented with Documentum and MarkLogic Server in a best-of-breed solution, DAL features fine grained search within published content. DAL provides a suite of content services that facilitate the development of new products across MHE as individual product groups leverage existing assets in the creation of new products.

Presenter

Carl Hixson, Vice President, Digital Asset Management, McGraw-Hill
Carl has the responsibility for all digital asset management (DAM) and digital publishing processes across the McGraw-Hill Education segment. Earlier, Carl was executive director of Digital Technology for HBO, part of AOL Time Warner, where he was extensively involved with DAM systems across the organization. Carl is co-inventor of several patents pertaining to the utilization of XML to define metadata and digital asset management standards for the media and entertainment industry. Carl was also director of Digital Technology for Getty Images.

Building a Digital Library with MarkLogic Server

The Ontario Scholars Portal is a cooperative project of 20 academic libraries in Ontario, Canada that brings together resources from dozens of scholarly publishers into a single repository and under a single search interface. Learn how we will be using Mark Logic's Content Processing Framework, XQuery-based search, and new faceted search capabilities to provide cross-publisher searching and drill-down capabilities to a collection of over 150 million scholarly publications.

Presenter

Alan Darnell, Project Manager, Scholars Portal Project, University of Toronto Libraries
Alan Darnell is Manager of the Ontario Scholars Portal Project. He has worked previously as a programmer and librarian for various universities in Canada, including the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta. Alan holds an MLIS from the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Toronto.

Implementing Personalized Customer Alerts at Congressional Quarterly (CQ)

Personalized e-mail alerts allows CQ's customers to keep close tabs on the information that is most valuable to their business by pushing information, in the proper context, directly to them. These personalized e-mail alerts leverage the largest press corps covering Capitol Hill by monitoring and pushing real-time notification as news breaks, hearings happen and as bills move. In this session you will learn about how Mark Logic worked closely with CQ, utilizing MarkLogic Server and professional services, to bring the next generation of this critical product online.

Presenter

Larry B. Tunks, CIO, Congressional Quarterly
Larry B. Tunks is the CIO of Congressional Quarterly, the world-class provider of information on government, politics and public policy. He has been with the nationally recognized publisher since 1998. During Larry's tenure CQ has designed and built a state of the art XML-based content creation and editorial management system, and a data delivery infrastructure that supports a circulation based business-to-business suite of electronic products for professional legislative affairs offices, federal government agencies law offices and political pundits.

Achieving Automatic Classification with MarkLogic Server and RSuite CMS

In this session you will learn about the techniques employed by the Really Strategies development team to build auto-classification capabilities in their RSuite Content Management System. The system addresses the meta-data management needs of publishers who are trying to both enrich their content as well as streamline their internal processes by leveraging metadata. Taxonomic content will be provided by Sage Publications.

Presenter

Michael Puscar, Director of Technology, Really Strategies
Michael Puscar is a lifelong technology enthusiast, with over 12 years of industry experience. His technical background is in search and retrieval technology, classification and taxonomy development. He is the author of several U.S. patents. As the Director of Technology at Really Strategies, Michael leads the product division of the company, both the U.S. team and an off-shore team based in Guangzhou, China. Before joining Really Strategies, Michael was the Vice President of Technology at Intellisophic, the world's largest provider of taxonomic content.

Research 2.0: Reshaping Content Paradigms at IEEE with MarkLogic Server

The consumer market’s focus on Web 2.0 changes users’ expectations on what they can do with content found on the web. Users are learning new methods to search and interact with content that more effectively satisfies their research needs. Through its newly established R&D program, IEEE is studying innovative methods in how users interact with its content. This session will highlight IEEE’s latest project that deconstructs and reconstructs content using MarkLogic Server in ways that enable users to work most efficiently.

Presenter

Barbara H. Lange, Director, Product Line Management and Business Development, IEEE
Barbara started her publishing career with Springer-Verlag in the early 1990’s, working with electronic media products primarily in chemistry and medicine. Joining the IEEE in 1996, Barbara held marketing and product management functions. In her current role, Barbara heads up IEEE’s publishing product management, business development and R&D program, developing new business opportunities that are in step with IEEE’s strategic plan.

Enabling Search and Discovery with PathCONSULT: A Clinical Decision Tool

In this session you will learn how PathCONSULT provides online diagnostic clinical decision support covering every subspecialty area of general pathology and is designed to be used at the point of work. It features a powerful differential diagnosis tool to compare diagnoses and will include 10,000 images and 500 diagnoses at launch. It helps pathologists reach the right conclusion in the shortest time possible. Agile concepts were used heavily, including those of Emergent Architecture, XP and Constant Feedback in an effort to make this the most relevant, useful and user oriented product yet.

Presenter

Paul Preuveneers, Technical Lead, Elsevier
After reading Computer Science at Southampton University, Paul worked for a startup company coding GPS mapping systems and applications. Paul joined Elsevier in 2001, and after helping develop and release various online projects, took part in the first Agile project in Elsevier London: PathCONSULT. Paul is currently the Technical Team Lead for the latest Agile project: RadCONSULT.

Enabling Digital Asset Management at Edmunds.com

eMIMS (Edmunds Multimedia Imagery Management System) allows Edmunds to manage all multimedia assets, including images and movies, for Edmunds.com. In this session you will learn how eMIMS allows users to load, categorize, and associate metadata with all digital assets and also allows users to search, publish, and syndicate assets to customers and partners. eMIMS was built using JAVA and MarkLogic Server.

Presenter

Greg Rokita, Director of Software Architecture, Edmunds.com
Greg has worked as software architect for various companies including United Airlines, WideOrbit, Broadware Technologies and FindLaw. Holds M.S. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University where he worked with the database group on projects such as CHAIMS (software by composition) and Google (when it was still a research project).

Publishing 2.0: O'Reilly Media's Approach to the Future of Publishing

The Publishing Industry is going through the greatest amount of change since the inception of desktop publishing in the mid-80’s. Publishers are struggling to understand the threats and opportunities that exist within this new paradigm. This talk will outline how a privately-held, single-genre media company is responding to these threats and opportunities, including a detailed discussion of what underlying technology infrastructure has been built to provide the flexibility and responsiveness needed to take advantage of this brave new world.

Presenter

CJ Rayhill, Chief Information Officer, O'Reilly Media
CJ Rayhill is the Chief Information Officer for O'Reilly Media and currently manages their new "Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC)" division (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/TOC). CJ spent the majority of her career doing software development and technology management in the financial services and healthcare industries prior to joining O'Reilly in 2000. Since joining O'Reilly, she has been the chief architect of their technical content strategy and has been involved in the implementation of products such as Safari Books Online, SafariU, Shortcuts, Roughcuts, blogs, podcasts, video, and custom print-on-demand. She is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, having attended Annapolis with the first-ever class of women in 1980 and holds an MBA degree from the University of South Florida.

Enabling Dynamic Content Publishing with MarkLogic Server

In recent years, commercial publishers have built dynamic publishing solutions on MarkLogic Server. Now, many other businesses realize they have similar needs. For example, high-tech manufacturers delivering self-service customized support information; government organizations dynamically publishing policies and procedures and pharmaceutical researchers providing access to clinical trial data. To meet these needs, Flatirons Solutions has developed the Dynamic Content Delivery solution using MarkLogic Server. In this session we will discuss the solution architecture and capabilities and demonstrates how it is being used at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Presenter

Lee Fife, Flatirons Solutions
Lee Fife runs the publishing, media, and entertainment practice at Flatirons Solutions, a leading content management and XML publishing systems integrator. Lee's long experience in content management and publishing includes work as an industry analyst, senior technical contributor, and executive. Lee is a frequent presenter at industry events including multiple presentations at Mark Logic's user conferences.

Accelerating the Creation of Information Products with XML and Content Services

Information products at Datamonitor bring together the rich analysis of our researchers, data about the financial performance of the companies we cover, and precision relationships between businesses and their industries. Datamonitor has developed a suite of tools and content services using MarkLogic Server that speed the creation, management, and delivery of our information products. In this session you will learn about lightweight XML content management and the value of creating, storing, and delivering information products as XML using MarkLogic Server.

Presenter

Matt Turner, Principal Consultant, Mark Logic
Matt Turner is a Senior Consultant with Mark Logic Corporation where he builds XML Content Server applications and helps others do the same. Previously, Matt worked with PC World Online and Sony Music creating publishing, community and identity applications and has been a speaker at Seybold, XTech and XML conferences. Matt is based in New York City where he writes his blog “Discovering XQuery”.

Addressing a Consumer Need: A New Application Built with MarkLogic Server

Ever wondered what it would be like to build a consumer-targeted application on top of MarkLogic Server? In this session, one developer will demonstrate and discuss a MarkLogic Server-backed web 2.0 application that aggregates, displays and integrates disparate content like e-mail, calendar, RSS, and other service based content - all at the desktop level. Learn from this developer's experiences - what's easy and what's not - and take a look at what the future may hold in store for you.

Presenter

Jason Monberg, Developreneur at Large, Dashlight
Jason Monberg recently left the safety of his corporate job to start Dashlight (www.DashLt.com), a company focused on making your web work for you. Prior to Dashlight Jason was the Vice President of Application Products at Composite Software where he oversaw the development, management, and marketing of new products. Jason also founded and raised capital for three software companies, CogentSoft, Carbon Five, and Sparks.com, where he rode the proverbial dot com roller coaster to its natural conclusion.

Using MarkLogic Server as Platform for Educational Resource and Curriculum Delivery

This session will talk about how Learning Technologies Branch’s two main web properties, LearnAlberta.ca and Alberta Education’s Online Guide to Implementation, provide a standards-based (e.g. IEEE LOM, IMS Content Packaging and IMS RDCEO) learning object repository and curriculum management system today, how they are going to be unified in the future, and how MarkLogic Server has played an increasingly important role in both.

Presenters

Bryan Shepherd, Director of the Learning Technologies Branch, Alberta Education
Bryan has over 20 years of experience in educational administration at the post secondary and k-12 levels. From 1999 to 2006, Bryan was the Dean of Learning Resource Services at NorQuest College in Edmonton, Alberta. As Dean of Learning Resource Services, Bryan was responsible for many initiatives that required the integration of technology. Currently, Bryan has responsibility for the LearnAlberta.ca learning object repository which uses Mark Logic technology to manage the educational content found within the repository.

Craig Schlegelmilch, Director of Technologies, Bucketduck Inc.
Craig Schlegelmilch is Director of Technologies at Bucketduck Inc., a service company specializing in the development and integration of content-driven systems. As a consultant for Learning Technologies Branch of Alberta Education, Craig has helped in product development and production of both LearnAlberta.ca and the Online Guide to Implementation. Craig has a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma in Software Engineering both from the University of Alberta.