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USPTO – New Big Data App [Value-Add Opportunity]

Monday, April 1st, 2013

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Launches New Big Data Application on MarkLogic®

From the post:

Real-Time, Granular, Online Access to Complex Manuals Improves Efficiency and Transparency While Reducing Costs

MarkLogic Corporation, the provider of the MarkLogic® Enterprise NoSQL database, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has launched the Reference Document Management Service (RDMS), which uses MarkLogic for real-time searching of detailed, specific, up-to-date content within patent and trademark manuals. RDMS enables real-time search of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) and the Trademark Manual of Examination Procedures (TMEP). These manuals provide a vital window into the complexities of U.S. patent and trademark laws for inventors, examiners, businesses, and patent and government attorneys.

The thousands of examiners working for USPTO need to be able to quickly locate relevant instructions and procedures to assist in their examinations. The RDMS is enabling faster, easier searches for these internal users.

Having the most current materials online also means that the government can reduce reliance on printed manuals that quickly go out of date. USPTO can also now create and publish revisions to its manuals more quickly, allowing them to be far more responsive to changes in legislation.

Additionally, for the first time ever, the tool has also been made available to the public increasing the MPEP and TMEP accessibility globally, furthering the federal government’s efforts to promote transparency and accountability to U.S. citizens. Patent creators and their trusted advisors can now search and reference the same content as the USPTO examiners, in real time — instead of having to thumb through a printed reference guide.

The date on this report was March 26, 2013.

I don’t know if the USPTO is just playing games but searching their site for “Reference Document Management Service” produces zero “hits.”

Searching for “RDMS” produces four (4) “hits,” none of which were pointers to an interface.

Maybe it was too transparent?

The value-add proposition I was going to suggest was mapping the results of searching into some coherent presentation, like TaxMap.

And/or linking the results of searches into current literature in rapidly developing fields of technology.

Guess both of those opportunities will have to wait for basic searching to be available.

If you have a status update on this announced but missing project please ping me.

Posted in BigData, Government, Government Data, MarkLogic, Patents, Topic Maps | No Comments »

MarkLogic Announces Free Developer License for Enterprise [With Odd Condition]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2013

MarkLogic Announces Free Developer License for Enterprise

From the post:

MarkLogic Corporation today announced the availability of a free Developer License for MarkLogic Enterprise Edition.

The Developer License provides access to the features available in MarkLogic Enterprise Edition, including integrated search, government-grade security, clustering, replication, failover, alerting, geospatial indexing, conversion, and a suite of application development tools. MarkLogic also announced the Mongo2MarkLogic converter, a Java-based tool for importing data from MongoDB into MarkLogic providing developers immediate access to features needed to build out enterprise-ready big data solutions.

“By providing a free Developer License we enable developers to quickly deliver reliable, scalable and secure information and analytic applications that are production-ready,” said Gary Bloom, CEO and President of MarkLogic. “Many of our customers first experimented with other free NoSQL products, but turned to MarkLogic when they recognized the need for search, security, support for ACID transactions and other features necessary for enterprise environments. Our goal is to eliminate the cost barrier for developers and give them access to the best enterprise NoSQL platform from the start.”

The Developer License for MarkLogic Enterprise Edition includes tools for faster application development, business intelligence (BI) tool integration, analytic functions and visualization tools, and the ability to create user-defined functions for fast and flexible analysis of huge volumes of data.

You would think that story would merit at least one link to the free developer program.

For your convenience: Developer License for Enterprise Edition. BTW, MarkLogic homepage.

That wasn’t hard. Two links and you have direct access to the topic of the story and the company.

One odd licensing condition:

Q. Can I publish my work done with MarkLogic Server?

A. We encourage you to share your work publicly, but note that you can not disclose, without MarkLogic prior written consent, any performance or capacity statistics or the results of any benchmark test performed on MarkLogic Server.

That sounds just a tad defensive doesn’t it?

I haven’t looked at MarkLogic for a couple of iterations but earlier versions had no need to fear statistics or benchmark tests.

Results vary depending on how testing is done but anyone authorized to recommend or sign acquisition orders should know that.

If they don’t, your organization has more serious problems than needing a MarkLogic server.

Posted in MarkLogic, NoSQL, XML | No Comments »

MarkLogic 5 is Big Data for the Enterprise

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

MarkLogic 5 is Big Data for the Enterprise

From the announcement:

SAN CARLOS, Calif. — November 1, 2011 — MarkLogic® Corporation, the company empowering organizations to make high stakes decisions on Big Data in real time, today announced MarkLogic 5, the latest version of its award-winning product designed for Big Data applications across the enterprise. MarkLogic 5 defines Big Data by empowering organizations to build Big Data applications that make information actionable. With MarkLogic 5, organizations get smarter answers faster by analyzing structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data in the same application. This allows a complete view of the health of the enterprise. Key features include the MarkLogic Connector for Hadoop, which marries large-scale batch processing with the real time Big Data applications MarkLogic has been delivering for a decade. MarkLogic 5 is a visionary step forward for organizations who want to manage complex Big Data on an operational database with confidence at scale. MarkLogic 5 is available today.

“Most of the hype around Big Data has focused only on the big or on the analytics,” said Ken Bado, president and CEO, MarkLogic. “For nearly a decade, MarkLogic has been helping its customers build cost effective Big Data applications that create competitive advantage. That means going beyond big and analytics to make information actionable so organizations can create real value for their business. With MarkLogic, multi-billion dollar companies like JP Morgan Chase and LexisNexis have redefined their business models, while organizations like the U.S. Army and the FAA have the real time, mission-critical information they need to get the job done. These aren’t science projects – they’re real organizations using Big Data applications right now.”

“We believe that MarkLogic 5 is well positioned to help solve many of the Big Data challenges that are emerging in the healthcare industry today,” said Jeff Cunningham, CTO at Informatics Corporation of America. “By incorporating MarkLogic 5 into our CareAlign™ Health Information Exchange platform, we have the ability to securely aggregate, manage, share, and analyze large amounts of patient information derived from a wide variety of sources and formats. These capabilities will help doctors, hospitals, and healthcare systems across the country solve many of the care coordination and population health management challenges that exist in healthcare today.”

There is a lot of noise concerning this release and it will take some time to obtain a favorable signal/noise ratio.

You can help contribute to the signal side of that equation:

Available with MarkLogic 5, the new Express license is free for developers looking to check out MarkLogic. It is limited to use on one computer with at most 2 CPUs and can hold up to 40GB of content. It includes options that make sense on a single computer (geospatial, alerting, conversion) and does not include options intended for clusters or enterprise usage (e.g., replication).

Posted in BigData, Hadoop, MarkLogic | No Comments »

MarkLogic: Beyond NoSQL

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

MarkLogic: Beyond NoSQL

From the post:

Even though the term, NoSQL, has issues, it’s become important.

Recently, leaders from several NoSQL projects (Riak, HBase, CouchDB, Neo4j) came together for a session at Gluecon. And while they came from divergent perspectives, they all basically agreed that the term had been very helpful to developers and architects in identifying their systems as new database and/or database-alternative technologies.

There have been numerous NoSQL taxonomies, discussions about them, and calls to move beyond them. And while it’s clear to us, as well as our friends and customers, that MarkLogic Server sits among these technologies, we haven’t yet fully described why NoSQL folks should pay attention. To that end, this post is a first step at explaining why and how we’re more than “yet another NoSQL system”. And I’ll start with some context for NoSQL folks.

You should read the post for yourself but suffice for me to say that MarkLogic is an XML database that sports a universal index of the elements, attributes, hierarchy of documents as well as their content.

If that doesn’t sound interesting, see: MarkMail, which is powered by a MarkLogic server.

Interested now?

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