May 2010
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Day Two: MarkLogic 2010 User Conference
Day Two of the MarkLogic 2010 User Conference started with a bang. As usual, the MarkLogic team got us jazzed up with some great music — and lots of caffeine — and then provided the audience with a special treat. A keynote presentation from Chris Anderson, Editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine, one of the brightest, and most forward-thinking people in the information technology and...
Day One: MarkLogic 2010 User Conference
As a previous attendee to the Mark Logic User Conference, I knew what to expect. Top quality presenters, relevant topics, great food and a staff that has an amazing attention to detail. This year’s event is no different.
While there were many sessions of interest to attend, I was able to see:
MarkLogic CEO Dave Kellogg give a humorous and informative opening keynote, cracking the audience...
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Marrying Smart Content with Smart Delivery to...
Tuesday, May 4 at 10:45am
Smart Content is becoming a key enabler of the transition of Elsevier 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 presentation by Mirko Minnich will address a framework for understanding the ...
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Opening Keynote at MarkLogic User Conference 2010
This morning is the first official day of the MarkLogic 2010 User Conference in beautiful San Francisco, CA. The opening keynote session starts at 8:30 am PST and will be delivered by the always insightful, Dave Kellogg, CEO, MarkLogic, whose popular blog is chocked full of great content. The session will also include brief remarks about the MarkLogic Product Vision from Ron Avnur, Vice President...
April 2010
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Show off your solutions at DemoJam 2010 at Mark...
Monday, May 3, 2010 from 4:30pm - 6:00pm the Mark Logic User Conference presents DemoJam, an opportunity for solution designers to demonstrate their work and show off their solutions. Winners will be selected by the audience and the winning contestant will receive an Apple iPad.
Deadline for entry is April 21, 2010. To enter, send a brief description of your solution to demojam@marklogic.com....
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Using hashtags at the 2010 Mark Logic User...
Hashtags are all the rage at conferences these days. These strings of text preceded by the # sign are the de facto way that users of social networks flag their posts as belonging to a specific topic, location, organization, or event. At conferences like Mark Logic User Conference 2010, users of Twitter and other social networks will add #mluc10 to their posts in order to help automated...
March 2010
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Welcome to the official blog for the Mark Logic...
May 4-6, 2010 join me in San Francisco for the annual gathering of the XML faithful — the world’s biggest and best showcase of mind-blowing information applications in use today — the Mark Logic User Conference 2010. You won’t be disappointed. I know. I’ve attended previous Mark Logic User Conferences and have simply been blown away by the quality of the...
January 2010
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May 2009
18 posts
Matching Businesses with Consumers at the Leading...
An entertaining presenter, Graeme Seaton from Yell.com delivered an interesting combination presentation and demonstration entitled “Matching Businesses with Consumers at the Leading Directory Service in the UK”. He provided the audience with an overview of how his firm discovered MarkLogic Server, how they ended up selecting the company to provide their underlying content framework,...
Bridging the gap in Clinical Documentation by...
A really interesting breakout session was presented by Craig Wilkins of Webmedx. His topic, “Bridging the gap in clinical documentation by applying XML and CDA”, which was designed to help attendees understand three things:
Everyone (patients, payors, physicians, public health organizations, etc.) all need better access to information
Documents are the physicians preferred vehicle...
Multi-Dimensional Content: Enabling Opportunities...
The closing keynote address at MarkLogic User Conference 2009 was delivered by Stephen Arnold, president of ArnoldIT, whose session Multi-Dimensional Content: Enabling Opportunities and Revenue was attended by a packed house. Arnold, IT guru and author of the numerous books, including his latest, “Google: The Digital Gutenberg”, was a riot. His presentation style was delightful and...
Jet Blue - One Year Later and a Year Wiser
Just after lunch today, Murry Christensen and Chris Beckman of Jet Blue delivered a 50-minute presentation entitled “A Year Later and a Year Wiser: Lessons Learned from Implementing an Authoring and Delivery System Based on MarkLogic, Sharepoint and Word”. The popular and innovative airline was working toward creating a modular content-oriented, structured content creation, management...
Information Fusion: Realizing Cost Benefits and...
Guy Filippelli and Jeremy Glesner, both of Berico Technologies, shared several government case studies and made some compelling arguments for using MarkLogic to build solutions designed to tackle information analysis challenges. The case studies were well-thought out and despite the presenters not being able to tell us all of the details (due to the sensitive nature of the solutions they built),...
Enough About Google, Future Trends in Information...
“We’re all publishers now,” says Whit Andrews, Vice President of Enterprise Search at Gartner. Andrews opened day two of the MarkLogic User Conference with a humorous story about how he struggled to use a GPS device to find the conference hotel. His example was designed to illustrate the problems consumers have getting the right content, in the right format, at the right time,...
The Impact of the Google Book Search Settlement
Since its inception, the Google Book Search initiative has caused tremendous controversy within the publishing industry. While the recent settlement between Google and the publishers may have allayed some of the key concerns, urgent questions remain on how the industry can effectively capitalize on the agreement. This closing keynote session was an interview between MarkLogic CEO Dave Kellogg and...
Why Publishers Should Be Investing in a Downturn
The last breakout session of the day was a panel discussion featuring five repreentatives from the publishing industry. This session was particularly interesting because recent research from IDC indicates that companies that invest during a downturn exit 30% stronger than their competitors. Given the pressures the publishing industry is already under from the declining print and advertising...
Real-Time Alerting of Time Critical Data
The second post-lunch session I attended today was called “Real-time Alerting of Time Critical Data” by Mike Fagan of Booz Allen Hamilton. It was a bit technical in nature and kind of vague. But, if I understand the concept correctly, the idea is that rapid access to certain types of information can provide unparalleled business benefits, including the ability to make an intelligent...
Delivering Custom Learning Solutions: Ian Williams...
After lunch, I attended a great presentation from Ian Williams of John Wiley & Sons, a publishing firm that serves the higher education arena and differentiates itself from the competition by providing a customized publishing solution called Wiley Custom Select. The solution, which runs on MarkLogic Server, provides professors with an online portal where they can create custom textbooks for...
Mike Bowers Examines LDS Church Applications Built...
In this first round of breakout sessions, I decided to atttend “Content Applications Being Developed at the LDS Church” with Mike Bowers. I selected this session because The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the steward of generations worth of content, in an increasingly wide variety of formats. And, legacy content — yes, indeed — they got plenty. As a result,...
The Wisdom of Crowds: James Surowiecki at...
James Surowiecki, the author of the best-selling The Wisdom of Crowds, talked to the audience about the theme of his book: avoiding reliance on individuals or small groups of elite employees to solve problems. He provided several examples of why this approach is not usually going to give you the best answer, and may, more often than not, give you totally wrong answers.
One example of how the...
Innovation with XML - The Rising Tide: Dave...
The crowded auditorium of 500+ XML content professionals erupted with applause as MarkLogic CEO, Dave Kellogg took the stage. Dave’s presentation started by providing an overview of the search engine/database divide (the no man’s land that used to exist between the document-centric folks and the database-centric people). He used various examples to help the audience understand how we...
Welcome to the MarkLogic User Conference!
It’s May 12, 2009 the first day of the MarkLogic User Conference. Welcome, to those of you who just arrived. And, hello to those of you keeping tabs on us from elsewhere. Here’s a brief conference update to get things rolling today.
Yesterday, Monday, May 11, attendees from all over the globe arrived for this, the largest XML conference in North America. Day 1 attendees convened for a...
If You're Going To San Francisco...
If you’re heading to San Francisco for the MarkLogic User Conference 2009, don’t be surprised if your co-workers are a teeny bit jealous. After all, you’ll be visiting one of the most beautiful and diverse cities on the planet, while they’re stuck back at the office. Not only is San Francisco located smack-dab in the middle of the technology capital of the world, but...
Exciting and Timely Keynotes at MarkLogic User...
I’m really looking forward to the MarkLogic User Conference 2009 for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, the roster is outstanding — especially, the keynote presenters. But, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I have a favorite.
That person is James Surowiecki, a rock star in the crowdsourcing arena, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and the author of the...
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Welcome to the MarkLogic User Conference 2009 blog
Hello, I’m Scott Abel, the offical blogger for the MarkLogic User Conference 2009, the largest conference in North America devoted entirely to leveraging XML and related technologies (including my favorite, XQuery). This year’s conference takes place May 12 - 14 at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA.
As the official conference blogger, and an event organizer myself, I aim to...