Congressional Quarterly Launches CQ Legislative Impact With MarkLogic Server; Integrates 30+ Content Sources While Providing Unique Insight Into U.S. Legislative Activity.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Mark Logic(R) Corporation, provider of the industry's leading XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. content server, today announced that Congressional Quarterly Congressional Quarterly, Inc., or CQ, is a privately owned publishing company that produces a number of publications reporting primarily on the United States Congress. Inc. has deployed MarkLogic Server for its recently launched CQ Legislative Impact product, the newest addition to its flagship CQ.com Legislative Tracking Service. By integrating XML content from more than 30 sources, including the newly added Public Laws database and the entire U.S. Code A multivolume publication of the text of statutes enacted by Congress. Until 1926, the positive law for federal legislation was published in one volume of the Revised Statutes of 1875, and then in each sub-sequent volume of the statutes at large. , CQ Legislative Impact lets subscribers see the specific impact of pending or passed legislation on existing laws. For example, subscribers are able to track how the recently passed Pension Protection Act of 2006 (HR4, August 3, 2006) has impacted 21 different federal laws with up to 174 changes to each law. This process, which used to take several days, can now be completed in minutes. "CQ Legislative Impact was designed to enhance the productivity of legislative affairs offices, Capitol Hill staffers, law librarians, lobbyists -- anyone with a professional interest in the law or legislative process," said Larry Tunks, chief information officer at Congressional Quarterly. "We have long used traditional search engine and database technology, but only MarkLogic Server gave us the solution to track and display the intricate relationships between legislation and existing laws." MarkLogic Server enables information providers such as Congressional Quarterly to integrate content from different sources, repurpose To change the media format; for example, to go from print to online. content into multiple products, deliver content through multiple channels, and more effectively mine content to find previously undiscovered information. With the industry's most powerful implementation of the W3C-standard XQuery language, MarkLogic Server enables customers to create powerful applications that load, query, manipulate, and render content. Designed with enterprise-class high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond One thousandth of a second. See space/time and ohnosecond. (unit) millisecond - (ms) One thousandth of a second, one thousand microseconds. A long time for a modern computer. response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Information providers are turning to MarkLogic Server to help implement new competitive strategies and dramatically reduce time to market and costs for new product offerings. "Information providers are discovering that search engines are not enough to meet the needs of today's demanding information consumers," said David Spenhoff, vice president of marketing for Mark Logic Corporation. "MarkLogic Server enables publishers to dig deep inside their content and create highly targeted information products. We are pleased to have been selected by Congressional Quarterly to help them continue their long tradition as an authoritative information resource for the legislative process." For more information about CQ Legislative Impact, visit http://www.cq.com/legislativeimpact. About Congressional Quarterly Inc. With more than 125 reporters, editors and researchers covering Capitol Hill and Washington, Congressional Quarterly is an award-winning news organization that publishes in print and online on a weekly, daily and real-time basis. Its high-level readership includes nearly every member of Congress, as well as top officials in the Executive Branch, leaders in business and associations, top academic institutions and important media outlets. CQ provides these opinion leaders with comprehensive, current and non-partisan information on government, politics and public policy. CQ's expanding product line includes: CQ Weekly, CQ Today, CQ.com, CQ Homeland Security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States , CQ Budget Tracker, CQ HealthBeat, CQ Green Sheets, CQPolitics.com, Governing Magazine Governing is a national monthly magazine, edited and published since 1987 in Washington, D.C., whose subject area is state and local government in the United States. The magazine covers policy, politics and the management of government enterprises. , and a line of books and directories under the CQ Press imprint. CQ is owned by the Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg, Fla., publisher of the St. Petersburg Times
The St. Petersburg Times is a daily newspaper based in St. Petersburg, Florida, that serves the larger Tampa Bay area. and other publications. The Times Publishing Co. is owned by the Poynter Institute The Poynter Institute is a school and resource for journalism located in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is in close proximity of the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library on the University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus that was built in memory of Nelson Poynter. for Media Studies, a non-profit school for journalists in St. Petersburg. About Mark Logic Corporation Mark Logic Corporation is the provider of the industry's leading XML content server. Mark Logic works Logic Works Inc. was a software company based in Princeton, New Jersey. Their flagship product was an IDEF1X modeling and database design tool called ERwin (ERwin) whose name is formed from an initialism of ER for Entity Relationship and "win", short for windows. with providers of information products to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine content to find previously undiscovered information. MarkLogic Server does this by enabling companies to load, query, manipulate, and render XML content using the W3C-standard XQuery language. Designed for high performance and scalability, MarkLogic Server can deliver millisecond response times against multi-terabyte contentbases. Mark Logic is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. and Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), founded in 1850, is a diversified, global financial services firm. It is a participant in investment banking, equity and fixed income sales, research and trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking. . For more information, please visit www.marklogic.com. (C) 2006 Mark Logic Corporation. Mark Logic is a registered trademark and MarkLogic Server is a trademark of Mark Logic Corporation. All rights reserved. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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