Distributed Content Authoring and Publishing

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Distributed Content Authoring and Publishing

• Ed Scrivani
• NextPage, Inc. 978-244-0628
• ed.scrivani_at_nextpage.com

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NextPage

• NextPage provides cross-enterprise content
  applications to help companies
• streamline knowledge-intensive interactions.
• strengthen strategic relationships.
• minimize risk.
• These content applications provide a means for
• Managing Information.
• Publishing or Accessing Information.
• Applying Information in the context of a
  business process.
• Publish It Find It Apply It

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The End-to-End Solution
Management
Delivery
NextPage Contenta
NextPage NXT 3
Powerful Document Content Management
Virtual Aggregation of Distributed Content
Rich WebDelivery
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Business Issues

• I rely on lots of content to do my job.
• The content is out there, but I cant find it.
• I found the content, but its out of date.
• Local departments control the content, but need
  to share it throughout the agency or across
  agencies.
• No single standard for publishing but end user
  needs to unify content for work product.
• I need access to content without a network
  connection.

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NextPage Contenta

• Content and document management engine
• Provides dynamic creation, assembly, re-use and
  multi-channel delivery capabilities
• Secure and Flexible workflow environment
• Version control for objects and collections
• Out-of-the-box integration with leading
  structured and unstructured editorial tools

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NXT 3 Peer-to-Peer Content Networking

• Content Networking
• Virtually connect distributed information and
  make it appear integrated to the user
• Access information in its native format, where it
  physically resides
• Dont move, centralize or recreate information
• Securely search, navigate and categorize
  distributed content
• Centralize access not content

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NextPage Content Network
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Content Network for CIO Council Pilot
Chesapeake Bay Journal
http//fedgov.nextpage.com Salt Lake, UT
Total system statistics 11 Content
Collections 6 Databases 7 Remote Web Sites 2
Content Network links 50,000 documents from 26
different sources in 3 different geographic
locations _
USGS.gov sites
Content Network Link

• NXT Services
• Content Collections
• File System
• ODBC
• WebSite

Content Network Link
http//support.nextpage.com Salt Lake, UT
Distributed Node www.sdi.gov Washington DC
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What the Pilot Shows

• Integration of several geographically distributed
  content sources made to look and function as if
  content was centrally aggregated
• Powerful search and navigation (power of XML)
• Real-time conversion of database data to XML
  presented in raw or styled XML
• XML indexing of web content
• Local files in their native (proprietary) formats
  indexed in XML and searched with other content
  nodes
• Uber portal capabilities
• Integration with VoiceXML Webservices

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Pilot for CIO Council

• Through content networking, virtual nodes can be
  traversed, queried, and documents displayed
  without users going to multiple sites.

Out-of-the-box search forms provides quick
development
Integrated TOC for easy navigation
XSL style sheets for customization of information
display
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Relational Database Access

• Issue
• Content locked in disparate databases on multiple
  servers. Solution
• Display database content using XML
• Content from different relational databases can
  be normalized and accessed with other content.

Table of Contents Entries generated via SQL
statements
SQL values returned as XML
Database contained unique county identifier that
is turned into a link to the Bear Facts database
via XSLT
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Relational Database Access
XSLT allows the creation of links to related
content without the embedding of links within
database
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Query of Databases
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Query of Databases

• By returning metadata in the XML hit list,
  immediate comparisons can be made without the
  need to go to the document.

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CIA Country Profiles

• This is a query of XML documents from the CIA
  Country Profiles public database. Were querying
  for the countries that have more than 100
  Airports.

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CIA Country Profiles

• Results map is returned as XML, and is formatted
  for viewing via XSLT. Individual XML elements
  can be pulled as part of the query result.

Comparisons can be made directly on the results
list, without going into the individual documents
Query pulls metadata directly from document, and
presents it as tabular content
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CIA Country Profiles
View Results List
Along with the hit document simultaneously
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Chesapeake Bay Site
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Local Content

• Issue
• How do you find information across multiple
  content types
• Solution
• Execute a single query using NXT 3.

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Local Content

• A search brings back a results map of local
  documents that satisfies the search.

Multiple document types satisfying the query set
is returned
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Local Content

• Hit Excerpts can be exposed without opening the
  target document, enabling users to quickly decide
  if thats the document they are interested in.

Excerpts from each of the document types without
opening the document
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Local Content

• Query terms are highlighted within the document,
  enabling the user to navigate to the hit term.

Query terms are hit-highlighted in the document
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Remote Web Site Access
Remote web sites are accessed real time, and up
to date pages retrieved

• NXT 3 brokers access to remote web sites on
  behalf of the end-user.

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Remote Web Site Access

• A single query will search for the target term
  across web sites, databases, and other locally
  hosted content.

As well as White House Pages
A query for Dick Armey
Brings back hits in the Statistical Abstracts (A
relational database)
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Remote Web Site Access
And the query term Dick Armey is highlighted,
bringing the end-user to the relevant section
The hit page is retrieved by NXT 3.
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Federal Blue Pages

• Federal Blue Pages are the Federal government
  public phone numbers for a particular area.

Lets query the Blue Pages for the Department of
Agriculture
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Federal Blue Pages
As well as a formatted entry from the database
We bring back both a list of entries that
satisfies the query
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Federal Blue Pages

• Content from the database can also be returned as
  straight XML.

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Content Networking Multiple Nodes

• Content Networking ties multiple nodes into one
  virtual node, with one access point.
• This is the
• www.sdi.gov site.

This is content that is local to the sdi.gov node
and indexed by NXT 3
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Architecture of FedGov Site
Well now move to the main fedgov.nextpage.com
site, where we bring in the distributed node.
Chesapeake Bay Journal
http//fedgov.nextpage.com Salt Lake, UT
USGS.gov sites
Content Network Link
This is the node that we just looked at.

• NXT Services
• Content Collections
• File System
• ODBC
• WebSite

Content Network Link
http//support.nextpage.com Salt Lake, UT
Distributed Node www.sdi.gov Washington DC
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Content Networking Multiple Nodes

• Through content networking, virtual nodes can be
  traversed, queried, and documents displayed
  without users going to multiple sites.

We now see the remote sdi node table of contents
within the main fedgov site.
The user does not have to leave the main site to
traverse content housed at a secondary location.
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Content Networking Multiple Nodes

• Queries submitted will be sent across to the sdi
  site, allowing for simultaneous queries.
• Results are presented as 1 integrated list from
  all sources and servers.

This hit is from the sdi node
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Content Networking Multiple Nodes
Document is retrieved from remote node for
end-user without a need to go separately to the
remote server
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Content Networking Multiple Nodes
Which is a part of the Distributed Web Services
from the sdi site
Document appears here
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NXT Product Architecture
RapidApps
NextPage Solo
NextPage Contenta
Applications
Application Services Interface
P2P Services
Security Services
Administration Service
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Summary

• NextPage enables distributed work
  groups/individuals to interact with the
  information they need, when they need it, no
  matter where it is located, in real time
• Reduce costs associated with redundant re-work
• Locate existing information
• Leverage existing investments
• Flexible adoption model
• Retain local autonomy and control
• Minimize risk real time info direct from local
  source
• Minimize time-to-market