Introduction to MarkLogic

Get to know MarkLogic before the Summit begins. MarkLogic has an expanding set of products, toolkits and connectors designed to help government organizations solve their unstructured information problems. In this session, we will provide an overview of MarkLogic products and how they are being used to deliver new and innovative solutions to the government. This session is recommended if you are new to MarkLogic and want to get the most out of the conference.

Taming the Unstructured Data Problem

The explosive growth of unstructured information across government has created challenges that cannot be easily solved using traditional relational databases. The massive volume and mission-critical nature of government information has critical implications on selecting and implementing the right technology. Join Dave Kellogg, award-winning blogger and CEO of MarkLogic, as he provides insight into the evolution of database systems and today's rapidly changing requirements. What about NoSQL systems such as key value stores and Hadoop? What about document-oriented databases? And how can the government address the changes in application delivery, such as mobile? Dave will also address the rise of unstructured and semi-structured information and discusses the best ways for government to turn the challenge of these disparate information types into an opportunity.

Unstructured Data in Government Agencies: Today's Challenges and Possibilities

Lieutenant General Michael Maples will provide insight into the overwhelming amount of unstructured data available to government agencies today and the information management challenges this presents. He will discuss the importance of leveraging technologies that deliver the agility, speed, and scale critical for information sharing -- all important components to promote better decision making. LTG Maples will draw from his experiences serving in Defense Intelligence, Joint and Multi-National assignments, and the United States Army.

Today's Challenge in Government: What to do with Unstructured Information and Why Doing Nothing isn't an Option

21st century governments are facing a modern information challenge. They must sift through the rapidly growing mass of unstructured information in order to connect citizens, employees, and global stakeholders instantaneously to get to the information that matters most. And they must do so efficiently and cost-effectively without sacrificing accuracy and speed. Traditional RDBMSs are not fit for this complex challenge, but a number of emerging database technologies are, and they are confronting long-held assumptions about the best way to manage unstructured information. What makes these purpose-built databases so relevant for government information? What should IT leaders keep in mind when considering these alternatives? Our guest speaker, Noel Yuhanna will answer these and other questions, as well as share preliminary results from Forrester's independent annual Database Management survey.

Sea of Goodwill: Matching the Donor to the Need

Colonel David W. Sutherland, U.S. Army, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, (JCS) and the Director of the Warrior and Family Support office at the Pentagon is the point man for the JCS in coordinating an initiative throughout communities to align the myriad of support organizations / agencies - governmental, non-governmental, faith-based, community, business, and higher education in a collaborative effort named the “Sea of Goodwill”, matching the donor to the need.

Searching the Library of Congress: Developing a Web-based Library Search Application

The Library of Congress is using MarkLogic to develop a web-based application to search, retrieve, and display metadata and digitized documents from the Library's collections. The project makes use of XML standards developed by the library community (including METS, MODS, MARCXML, EAD, and TEI) to express metadata from various Library datasets. These datasets are ingested into a single MarkLogic database and are thereby aggregated into a single search target for the first time. The benefit to users will be both greater simplicity and greater power in searching the collections of the Library of Congress.

MarkLogic Technical Overview

MarkLogic provides a unique DBMS, designed from the ground-up to handle information with equal agility across schemas, levels and types of structure, and levels of scale. We'll take a quick trip through some of the dimensions of MarkLogic's capabilities, including spatial data and queries, distributed replication of databases, the ability to search in real-time, and a novel combination of querying that spans retrospective and real-time search in a new way.

Getting Started with MarkLogic Server (Hands On)

Spend the afternoon with senior consultants from MarkLogic getting oriented to MarkLogic Server. You will install the server on your laptop and work through loading documents, configuring your database, writing basic queries, and constructing a very basic application in MarkLogic Server. By the end of the first half of the afternoon session you will have a functional application up and running!

We will then begin with a review of ApplicationBuilder and the SearchAPI to look at what functionality is provided out of the box with these tools, and how you can extend them to suit the needs of your project. In this workshop you will load sample documents, build an application, then add features to the application by extending the code that is generated by ApplicationBuilder. By the end of the session you will have used our best practices for extending the functionality of this powerful tool.

Coral Reef: Building a Robust, High-Performance Ingest and Storage Framework for Rapidly Evolving Battlefield Exploitation Data

This session will explain how and why Berico is using MarkLogic, via Coral Reef, to power a next-generation system to ingest, analyze, present, and alert on the rapidly-evolving nature of forensics data in current conflict zones. The presentation will begin with the major forces that are shaping current and future military intelligence requirements and capabilities, discuss the potential for MarkLogic to reinforce key large-system government initiatives, and finally demonstrate how Coral Reef leverages MarkLogic to provide the modern warfighter with a game-changing application to store, analyze, and disseminate mission-essential exploitation data.

Jump-Starting Applications with MarkLogic Application Services

MarkLogic is an ideal platform for building rich, interactive applications that leverage unstructured and semi-structured information. Learn how MarkLogic Application Services can simplify prototyping and building compelling applications. Senior Product Manager, Justin Makeig, will walk through loading content with Information Studio and then building a full-featured search application with Application Builder-from a directory of files to a complete application in under an hour, all from within a web browser.

I believe I Can Fly: FAA's Emergency Collaboration and Data Fusion with MarkLogic and Microsoft SharePoint

The FAA, Emergency Operations, and C3 have developed a web-based Emergency Operations Network (EON), intended for information-sharing that creates a common operational picture (COP) and supports effective, actionable decision-making. Architected on a secure, highly available, and flexible infrastructure, EON is designed to implement effective information collaboration, accurate Command, Control Communications (C3), continuity of operations (COOP), and adaptive situational awareness for enhancing decision support. This new infrastructure is built upon existing FAA networks and the technologies of the operations framework.

MarkLogic Toolkits and Connectors

Keep your authors authoring and your analysts analyzing! Designed to maximize content assembly and re-use, the MarkLogic Toolkits for Office provide content application authors a quick, simple way to deploy solutions in the ubiquitous Microsoft Office interfaces their customers are already using and comfortable with. In addition, the MarkLogic Connector for SharePoint provides the ability to synchronize document libraries and custom workflows seamlessly with MarkLogic, so customers can leverage their current IT investments while getting all the benefits of MarkLogic Server.

Using Search Technology to Solve Real-World National Security Problems

This session is closed to press.

The Intelligence Community is ripe with information. No entity in the world produces such a vast amount of information like the US Government. The key to making all of this information valuable is providing the ability to find the material and make it usable to the people who need it. Diana Parr, Chief of ODNI's Intelink Customer Relations, will discuss how they are using search technology to solve real-world national security problems.

MarkLogic and Semantic Technology

MarkLogic Server is well established as a DBMS for unstructured information and the best place to store your XML. But what about semantic information? Join us for a look at RDF, semantic queries, large-scale joins, capabilities we have demonstrated over two data challenges involving billions of semantic elements. We will explore the application of XQuery to these challenges and look at current university research on connecting XML stores with semantic technology such as SPARQL.

Warrior Gateway and the Power of Information: Leveraging XML to transform the Veterans information landscape

Every day we use the power of other people's opinions, insights and experiences to make decisions. We look to Yelp to help us find a restaurant, Rotten Tomatoes to help us decide what movie to see or Trip Advisor for vacation and hotel advice. So why don't our veterans have those same tools available to them to help them decide on where to go for healthcare, job opportunities, family assistance, education, and training?

Join Devin Holmes, Executive Director, Warrior Gateway as he takes you on the journey of the power of crowd-sourcing and collaboration to help today's veterans make better decisions about what government program or non-profit organization to turn to for help. By leveraging social dimensions and providing a forum, he will talk about how empowering our veterans to share these experiences using Warrior Gateway helps the overall community, gives them a voice and in turn how you can help veterans in your community.