Opening Night Reception and DemoJam!

The DemoJam! is coming to the User Conference and MarkLogic is holding its first demo competition at the Opening Reception on Monday, May 3rd from 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. on the Pacific Terrace. Each contestant has 5 minutes to show off their demos. Winner is chosen by the audience and best demo wins an iPad. Deadline for entries is April 21st. Submit a brief textual description of your demo to

Marrying Smart Content with Smart Delivery to Create High Value Customer Applications Mirko Minnich, Elsevier Health Sciences

Smart Content is becoming a key enabler of Elsevier's transition from content publisher to information solutions provider, providing the means for both better access and discovery of content as well as the production of data from content for new science and healthcare solutions. This keynote will address a framework for understanding the types, sources and evolution of Smart Content, how Elsevier generates it, and how it impacts editorial, production and the user experience. In addition, the keynote will describe the challenges Elsevier Health Sciences is facing in developing Smart Content driven solutions tailored for specific customer roles and tasks and how it is leveraging technologies like MarkLogic to address them.

Data Modeling, Performance and Pitfalls Damon Feldman, MarkLogic

MarkLogic Server structures information differently than relational databases, and uses different index structures, locking mechanisms and functions calls to maximize performance. In this talk we review a few approaches to getting the most from your XML and XQuery code, including how the XML is structured, how documents and specific elements or attributes can be accessed, and how to avoid pitfalls such as over-locking.

Advances in Search with MarkLogic Server Mary Holstege, MarkLogic

Dr. Holstege talks in depth about MarkLogic Server's rich, scalable search capabilities, and describes the latest advances in functionality and performance.

Converting Paper Documents into Knowledge: How ENSCO Created an Intuitive Knowledge Management System John Holshey, Ensco

Many organizations' history is preserved in libraries of paper and microfiche documents. Many of these organizations are unable to mine these collections for critical information they need for today's problems and don't understand the relationships within the content of these historic documents. This presentation will describe a MarkLogic-based solution to maximize the value of old, hard-copy document collections utilizing deep content analysis. It will also summarize steps required and the lessons learned in transitioning paper and microfiche documents into rich, searchable content, and visualizing the results.

Coral Reef: Building a Robust, High-Performance Ingest and Storage Framework for Rapidly Evolving Battlefield Exploitation Data Guy Filipelli, Matthew Carroll & Andy Walker, Berico

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 a MarkLogic XML content server to provide the modern warfighter with a game-changing application to store, analyze, and disseminate mission-essential exploitation data.

High-End Search with MarkLogic Server Sam Mefford, Avalon Consulting

Avalon Consulting, LLC will share our discoveries of how to create the premier search user experience on MarkLogic Server. You will benefit from seeing: 1) Top features your modern search applications need, 2) Code samples for implementing these features, 3) An introduction to Avalon's Unified Search Platformtm (USP) for MarkLogic, 4) Insight on revolutionizing your users' search experience. Our clients demand increased functionality from their search interfaces, including faceted search, auto-complete and cross-repository virtual results, with full respect for security. Avalon completed an intense development effort and found innovative ways to revolutionize the search experience (and the search industry).

XSLT 2.0 and MarkLogic Server Norm Walsh & Mary Holstege, MarkLogic

Ever wanted to do XSLT transformations directly in MarkLogic Server? Mary Holstege, MarkLogic Principal Engineer, will describe her work building an XSLT engine inside MarkLogic Server. Mary will show how you can call XSLT from XQuery and/or call XQuery from XSLT, so you can use the right language for the right job. Then Norm Walsh will demonstrate the power of combining XQuery and XSLT.

The Legal Information System: Building a Centralized, Specialized and Highly Relevant Legal Information System Pierre Guinguene, Le Moniteur

The group Moniteur is an information and service provider for Construction and Local Authorities. In 2009, the group Moniteur started to develop an ambitious service offer to provide access to highly specialized and relevant legal information. The first step, the Legal Information System, centralises for the first time all legal and technical information into a unique repository. The main challenges for the group Moniteur were to define a durable information system, able to integrate new content structures, but also to provide millions of complex contents such as legal information with no loss of performance; two requirements covered by MarkLogic.

Yell.com: A Year in Retrospect, Technical and Product Views Daniel Booth & Graeme Seaton, Yell

This session will look at how Yell.com has consolidated its content into MarkLogic Server, providing greater search flexibility and use within different applications. It will also focus on how Yell.com is making the most of the MarkLogic Server functionality, including multi-weighted queries, facets and geo-spatial search. We will highlight some of the technical challenges Yell.com encountered and overcame as well as providing an insight into the business benefits.

Dynamically Delivering 50 Years of Complex Technical Documents to the Engineering Shop Floor Phil Metivier, Senior Solutions Architect, Innodata Isogen

A government facility maintains a technical library with a 50-year collection of printed technical manuals, parts manuals and drawings. Innodata Isogen was engaged to assist them with their goal of achieving a “paperless future” through the implementation of an IETM-compliant EDDS. Using MarkLogic Server's XML and XQuery capabilities, Innodata Isogen built a system to dynamically deliver pinpoint XML content, linked to SVG graphics, and unstructured and relational data to specifically targeted shop floor technicians' queries. Users were provided with dramatically reduced cycle times.

Semantic Storage and Queries with MarkLogic Server Michael Blakeley & Jason Monberg, MarkLogic

You already know that MarkLogic Server is the best place to store your XML. But what about semantic information? Join us for a look at RDF, semantic queries, large-scale joins, and the billion triple challenge.

E-Space: A Real World Case Study of a MarkLogic Application Pat Wall, Booz Allen

MarkLogic Server was brought in to this key DoD program to enhance existing technologies and provide additional agility in managing large volumes of XML data. In this session, we will discuss our use of MarkLogic Server, and how we took advantage of evolving platform features to deliver additional value for clients.

Is Your IT Infrastructure Secure? Using MarkLogic Server to Combat the Cyber Threat Mike Kushin, Six3Systems

With the dramatic increase ini cyber attacks against public and private sector organizations, the need for awareness of cyber events across the enterprise has become an absolute necessity. Having situational awareness and being able to correlate independent events and log records into behavioral analysis that many indicate a cyber attack or insider threat provides organizations the ability to combat and respond to threats against intellectual property and other critical business information. This session discusses the use of MarkLogic to fuse and provide early warning capabilities to help protect IT infrastructure.

Simultaneous Publishing in Print & Digital: Successful Outsourcing of Core Processes Prema Ramalingam, Jouve

Publishing in digital" means embracing the full range of opportunities created by digital processes and devices--from product development and design to production, distribution, and delivery to end product customization. Can outsourcing core business processes help publishers meet the challenges of publishing in digital? Jouve has developed a unique set of modular platforms and services that establish a customized working organization between the publisher and us, with process optimization to take best advantage of the capabilities on each side. We will share success stories, demo platform modules, and talk about our road map for integrating MarkLogic into our core platform.

Best Practices for XQuery Testing Mark Helmstetter, MarkLogic

Software testing is a critical component of the software development process to ensure the timely delivery of a quality application. This session explores several approaches and best practices that can be implemented to test your MarkLogic XQuery libraries, modules, and applications. The session will explore unit, functional, and integration testing tools and techniques.

I believe I can fly:FAA's Emergency Collaboration and Data Fusion with MarkLogic and Microsoft Will Lawrence, Digital Pontis

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.

The Nimble Elephant: Bringing Agile to Old School Publishing Shannon Holman, McGraw-Hill & Lee Fife, Flatirons

Listen to the team at McGraw-Hill Higher Education that led the development of McGraw-Hill Create — the new custom publishing product for educational content — describe how they brought agility both to the development process and to the product itself. They will discuss the challenges faced and benefits gained from applying agile methodology within the process confines of a traditional publisher and will show the resulting product which lets professors and instructors create agile custom textbooks and other educational content. By doing this, McGraw-Hill Higher Education gives instructors the ability to tailor their course content to better meet students' needs and provides new revenue opportunities for their organization.

Information Studio Justin Makeig & Micah Dubinko, MarkLogic

Information Studio simplifies how you load and transform content for rich information applications. Lead Engineer, Micah Dubinko, and Product Manager, Justin Makeig, will show how you can use the new browser-based application and XQuery API to collect content from different sources, process it with XSLT and built-in transformation logic, and load it into a MarkLogic database. Learn how you can customize Information Studio to connect to additional data sources and package your own transformations for reuse.

XQuery by Example for MarkLogic Server Jason Booth, MarkLogic

With the breadth of available functionality in the MarkLogic Server, ‘the world is your oyster' with regard to XML data. This session will focus on the practical application of XQuery, along with powerful MarkLogic Server API. Small, solution-based code examples will be used to show what XQuery can do for you. Some areas covered: using XQuery (with MarkLogic lexicons)/JavaScript/HTML to create an autosuggest box, writing a simple ReST service and performing real-time client notification with MarkLogic alerting.

Serving the Needs of the Military Community with MarkLogic Server: the Warrior Gateway Program Devin Holmes, Warrior Gateway

MarkLogic Server is helping bring needed resources to wounded warriors, veterans, families and other members of the military community. A nascent effort, the Warrior Gateway program has created a single web portal designed to serve as a trusted/reliable resource to easily discover service organizations, identify academic programs, and find careers seeking their valuable skills – all while creating transparency and enabling improvements across the service provider sector through metrics and collaboration. Bringing innovation combined with social media best practices to this effort, Warrior Gateway is designed to leverage the power of the Web to help our nation's service men and women reintegrate back into their communities.

Cognizant Custom Publishing Framework - Enhancing the Value of Your Content Mike Harris, Cognizant

The Cognizant Custom Publishing Framework is an enterprise repository, management and distribution solution for content. The solution ingests and transforms various rich media formats into a single, logical XML framework powered by MarkLogic Server. The framework can be deployed in a production environment, or can be applied to transform and derive value from legacy content, or both. The centralization of these disparate formats in a single, active repository, and the transformation of static text into more useful XML provides several key advantages including dynamic content management, content enrichment, advanced search and retrieval, multi – format content delivery, analytics and ensures monetization.

Extending Application Builder Applications Kash Badami, MarkLogic

MarkLogic's Application Builder lets you rapidly create full-blown search applications without writing any code. This session gives tips and describes new tools to extend those applications so that you can add new functionality to your applications.

Extending Our MarkLogic Implementation Christopher Beckmann, JetBlue Airways

This session will explore how JetBlue Airways plans to extend their MarkLogic implementation using an in-development industry standard data interchange model. As part of the team developing this standard, which includes aircraft manufacturers, airlines, and government regulators, JetBlue sees some exciting possibilities for advanced content sharing and reuse down the road.

Planning for Mobile Computing While Accommodating Current Market Requirements John Blossom, Shore Communications (Moderator)
James Wonder, American Institute of Physics
Carl Hixson, Pearson
Keith Nichols, Zinio
Kit Webster, EVN Consulting

Delivering valuable content services via mobile devices are becoming a key opportunity for many enterprises, but an opportunity that brings with it many key challenges. With dozens of new devices appearing each year using a wide variety of computer operating systems, networks and standards, simple, reliable rapid adaptation of content to these platforms is a must. This session will provide a roundtable discussion of best practices for meeting the challenges of delivering mobile content across multiple platforms and case studies as to how major organizations have applied these best practices.

enContext: All-source Text and Link Analysis System for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Preston McGowan, Raytheon

We strive to take Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) solutions that are already industry proven and enhance their collective worth. We have integrated MarkLogic, enterprise integration solutions, and custom applications to create a fielded product that enables our customer to ingest, enrich, and manage open source unstructured documents. Our solution empowers an organization to weave an interconnected web of persons, organizations and locations of interest powered by concept aware search and retrieval.

Debugging MarkLogic Applications Keith Breinholt, LDS Church

The most common method for developing and debugging MarkLogic is simple trial and error. While this is okay for small applications it can become problematic for larger more involved applications with multiple developers. The goal of this session is to outline some best practices and tools for debugging simple and then more complex applications alike. - Introduction to Debugging XQuery Applications - Using CQ - Editors with XDBC based Debuggers such as Oxygen - A Debugger 'Web App' that uses MarkLogic's Debugging API - Profiling.

Application Services APIs Colleen Whitney, MarkLogic

Make room in your development tool kit for a powerful new API that makes it easy to create new databases and load content without opening the MarkLogic Server Administration panel. Basic features include directory loading, tickets for tracking and reporting progress, and reusable policies for loading options such as URI construction patterns, document permissions and collections. An additional set of functions for power users supports custom plugin development for loading and transforming content.

A CIO's Best Practices for Content Database Migrations Isaac Sacolick, McGraw-Hill

What should a CIO or GM do to upgrade legacy content databases with rich document structures, searchable metadata, connections to CMS systems, and multiple customer facing applications? What are the business cases for these upgrades and how do you win over supporters? How should data and application management teams plan these upgrades to deliver value and mitigate risks? What are some tactical best practices in implementing these transitions? This presentation will include some best practices on implementing MarkLogic at McGraw-Hill as well as other challenging database migrations.

Content in Context Tony Apuzzo and Ryan Sappenfield, Flatirons

To make the best use of content and maximize its value, you need to place that content in context. This context can include IP Rights and Permissions, Taxonomies and Ontologies, and Rich Relationships with other pieces of content. To date, much of the focus of MarkLogic solutions has been on applying XML to the insides of documents: the content itself. Flatirons Solutions is now applying XML and MarkLogic to manage the context of content. We'll talk about how context increases the value of your content and show a demonstration of advanced Rights Management enabling discovery and access to rich media assets.

Building 100% XQuery Web Applications Darin McBeath, Elsevier

Over the past decade, the products delivered by scientific publishers have evolved from hard-copy journals to interactive, full-featured web sites offering their customers a rich, user-friendly research experience. But, is the scientific publishing industry reaching a tipping point where their products will once again evolve in response to the changing needs of their customers? This presentation will explore how XQuery and MarkLogic Content Server are being used within the Disruptive Technology group of Elsevier Labs to develop 100% XQuery web application in preparation for these new product offerings.

Data Mining Profiler Mark Heinzelman, RR Bowker

Bowker has created a next-generation data mining, classification, and analytical engine based on MarkLogic Server. This project has already proven valuable to research institutions in better defining content strategies. Major functions include Term and entity extraction, classification, clustering, and summarization among other features. --this presentation can be modified for a technical audience instead of a business audience.

Integrated Content Delivery Using Marklogic David Leeming, Royal Society of Chemistry

RSC has launched a powerful new integrated content delivery platform providing over 165 years of world-class RSC-hosted journal, book and database content - all from one simple search. This presentation showcases this new platform and describes the challenges of integrating the different content types and how its rich functionality, powerful searching, simple browsing and intuitive navigation was achieved.

Enabling Growth Thanks to Text Analytics and Content Enrichment Guillaume Mazieres, TEMIS

Digital content production and delivery has brought on a period of challenges and opportunities in which Publishers are seeking new avenues for growth and competitiveness. In this context, Content Enrichment has emerged as the key process that enables Publishers to make their content more targeted and compelling for their audience and opens new routes for increased content monetization with new products, services and channels. This presentation by TEMIS introduces Text Analytics as the core technology powering efficient Content Enrichment, and illustrates its use cases and unique benefits throughout the Publishing workflow.

XSLT and XQuery - Contrasting Push and Pull Processing in Two Languages G. Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd.

This presentation overviews and contrasts the basic approaches towards writing stylesheets in XSLT and queries in XQuery. While a simplified XSLT stylesheet is quite similar in structure to the imperative style in XQuery, most XSLT stylesheets follow a very dissimilar declarative style. These are compared with a brief review of benefits and drawbacks. This presentation also walks through a number of illustrative examples of transformation requirements with comparable solutions in XSLT and XQuery.

Semantic Content Creation - Getting People to Come to the Party Luann Brennan, Swee-Doon Goh & Bill McKinney, Cengage Learning

Gale, part of Cengage Learning, is in the midst of an ambitious plan to bring new online reference resources to market more quickly. To support that goal, an initiative was launched to supply semantic and metadata rich XML content to product developers. We'll share our experiences with helping colleagues trade their SGML documents, Word templates and file system storage for DocBook XML, browser-based WYSIWYG XML editing and MarkLogic.

Maximizing Web Content Platform ROI: The Critical Role of “Content Architecture & Effective Search” Anil Ganjoo, HCL

Aggregation & Delivery has brought a number of challenges as well as opportunities for publishers. A number of content providers / aggregators have started identifying themselves as “Information Partner”, creating indispensible solutions that connect people and information. In this context, Content Architecture & Search has emerged as key factors for publishers to increase their content reach across different user communities and opens new avenues of content monetization with new products and distribution channels. This session by HCL outlines some best practices and tools that enable the publishers for the transformation through a case study of a leading research information service provider.