Mark Logic News -- April 2006  







Rants & Raves About Content

CEO Dave Kellogg, writes, rants, and occasionally raves about search, database, and content technology.

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Upcoming Webinars

MarkLogic Server Speeds and Simplifies DITA Implementation
— Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Unlocking the Value of Your Content with MarkLogic Server
— Thursday, April 6, 2006



Mark Logic in the News

Mark Logic Named One of the '100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management’ by KMWorld Magazine for Second Consecutive Year.
March 1, 2006

Edmunds.com Streamlines Image Metadata Management with Mark Logic
February 8, 2006



Ask Our Expert
  1. What resources are available to help me lern more about XQuery?

  2. My content is not in MXL - how do I convert it to XML?

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The Future of Web 2.0:
O'Reilly Media's SafariU Leads the Way


While publishers dream of monetizing their content with XML, one company is actually doing it. Through "SafariU" from O'Reilly Media, professors can now select from online source materials and custom-publish their own textbooks. Students save money. Teachers get exactly what they want. And O'Reilly Media discovers a new profit center.

This breakthrough success story outlines the technology and business processes that enabled O'Reilly Media to expand into a new market-including best practices you can apply to your own publishing challenges in any field.

Building ROI through content reuse. According to The Gilbane Report, O'Reilly Media epitomizes the vision of "agile publishing" in which content is repurposed to drive dynamic, automatic publishing processes. In SafariU, O'Reilly is following its own Web 2.0 principles.
  • Content becomes a corporate asset, the next "Intel inside".
  • Web-based information products are designed for remixing and delivery on-demand.
  • Users are engaged in building "collective intelligence" through sharing and viral adoption.
Download your complimentary copy. It includes best practices you can apply to YOUR own publishing challenges in any field! Click here to download now.

Click here to view the webinar archive, The Reality of Web 2.0: O'Reilly Media's SafariU Leads by Example.



Mark Logic 2006 User Conference -- May 23-25, 2006

The Mark Logic 2006 User Conference will be held May 23-25, 2006 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Burlingame, CA.

The Mark Logic User Conference is for XQuery developers, content application architects, and content technology and business managers who want to get in an in-depth technical briefing on the latest MarkLogic Server features and capabilities. Hear how other companies are implementing applications using MarkLogic, and network with others in the Mark Logic user community. If you or someone at your company would like to present an application developed using the MarkLogic Server, please fill out the comment section on the registration page.

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New Book Provides Expert Advice on Querying XML

Stephen Buxton, Mark Logic's director of product management, has coauthored a new book with Jim Melton entitled "Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in Context." The book serves as a new resource to help developers, architects, and managers learn and assess XML querying capabilities to find and extract fine-grained information from large content repositories.

"With XQuery on the verge of being approved by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), the timing for a book like this is perfect and supports our aim of helping fuel broad industry adoption of this breakthrough query language," said Buxton.

Published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, "Querying XML" is currently the best-selling XQuery book on Amazon.com!



Mark Logic Teams with Spectrum Systems to Offer GSA Pricing to Federal Government Customers

MarkLogic has partnered with Spectrum Systems, Inc. of Fairfax, VA., a provider of business process and system optimization solutions, to offer MarkLogic Server to Spectrum Systems' General Services Administrations (GSA) schedule. The GSA schedule offers the government an easy and cost-efficient way to purchase MarkLogic Server, the industry's leading XML Content server.

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What The Industry Is Saying

The Perfect Search
Google–style search is all right for some, but enterprise search demands a mix of technologies and techniques that lead to better accuracy.
Intelligent Enterprise, March 1, 2006

Search and Sell: Oxford University Press Implements a New System to Launch New Products Quickly
Oxford University Press selected MarkLogic Server as the basis for its publishing platform because the software provided the greatest flexibility in describing, organizing, and searching content.
Book Business, February 2006


Upcoming Industry Shows & Conferences

EMC Documentum Users of the Mid-Atlantic (DUMA)
April 10, 2006
Valley Forge, PA

US Department of Energy
April 20, 2006
Germantown, MD

The 6th Annual Knowledge Management Conference & Exhibition
April 19-20, 2006
Washington, DC

Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies
April 24–26, 2006
San Francisco, CA

DoDIIS Worldwide Conference
May 8-10, 2006
Dallas, TX

INTELCON: 2nd Annual National Intelligence Conference & Exposition
May 7–9, 2006
Bethesda, MD

National Security Agency - FANX Complex
May 11, 2006
Linthicum, MD

SIIA Content Forum
May 15–16, 2006
San Francisco, CA

AIIM Annual Conference & Expo
May 16–18, 2006
Philadelphia, PA

2006 SSP 28th Annual Meeting
June 7-9, 2006
Arlington, VA

Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies for Government
June 14–15, 2006
Washington, DC


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