Voyager & NGA

1. Voyager & NGA Activities and functionality review

2. Agenda • Licensing • Functional Overview • Opportunities • Questions

3. Licensing Proposal • Unlimited Voyager license to cover development, TIDE, production and COOP for Enterprise Search • $3 million in 2015; $2 million a year for 4 subsequent years • Payment covers maintenance on all previous purchases • At the end of the 5 years, you keep the licenses you have

4. In the beginning… • Voyager independently assessed by the ES&IS and used by CASi • Voyager meets 100% of the requirements outlined in the statement of work • Voyager has extended the product at no cost to the government

5. But, there is still a lot of confusion • Custom code • Misinformation about our functionality • Lots of opportunities for quick wins

6. Reporting Connectors & Extractors Catalog Creation Exposing Catalog Extraction and Transformation Content Enrichment Search Services UI

7. Connectors & Extractors • Built-in tools for connecting to and “ingesting” content • Connectors to servers, Web services, databases, catalogs, CMS, other search engines. • Extractors “read” 1,770 file formats • Understanding of complex GIS formats — Shapefiles, for example

8. Catalog Creation • Voyager creates a catalog as the index is created • Content update = catalog updates • The catalog is a set of “library cards” for everything — Web services, spatial or non-spatial content, content with or without metadata • The Lucene index is a great Metadata Catalog

9. Content Enrichment • Transformation and augmentation of existing metadata during the indexing process • Creation of thumbnails • Duplicate content detection • Metadata normalization or adding fields to the metadata • 3d-party rules service (content type and form taxonomy)

10. Search Services & Index Management • Keyword, place name and spatial query search • Tagging, rating, nomination (GOLD, Crisis) • Integration with enterprise security • Index Management, tuning, federation, query elevation and more

11. User Interfaces • Classic Voyager UI for index management and configuration • Voyager Navigator for end users • Voyager widget for ArcGIS Online/Portal — aka Map of the World or GeoWhereHouse • Voyager’s ArcGIS desktop toolbar

12. Content Extraction and Transformation • Delivery and transformation tools • Clip and ship • Transform • Data management tools • Clean up content • Facilitate data consolidation • Fix Metadata • Remove duplicates • Modeling tools • JEMA integration

13. Expose, Publish and Use • Exposed through industry standards • APIs • RSS/Atom Feeds (notification services) • Open Search (search engine & Globe integration ) • CDR brokered search (DNI content discovery and retrieval standard) • Solr/Lucene (best of breed, open source search) • Integration with other systems • Voyager Collect Service • Voyager-to-Voyager federation • Voyager-to-Autonomy federation

14. Reporting • Business analytics • Logging of user activity (search queries and content access) • Visualization of content catalog • What’s in the these catalogs? • Metrics by content type • Graphs and chats of content composition • Field usage reports

15. Voyager handles spatial data expertly • Voyager knows spatial • Creates and maintains the relationship of data to layers and layers to maps or maps to services • Adds spatial context to non-spatial documents • Handles the spatial nature of vector, raster, lidar, video and more • And… it can read all of the other formats too

16. Voyager is Best of Breed Search • Voyager is built on the Lucene — so are Amazon, Kayak, Twitter, Netflix and Apple and every other thing you search on the web • High-performance, full-featured search engine • We’ve extended it to support spatial • We’ve made it accessible to the non-developers for query management, tuning etc. • We’ve given it a UI so you can search, sort and filter right away • We’ve extended it to support data discovery • We’ve added tools for enriching your content

17. If Voyager does all these things, why can’t we see it?

18. Custom code Access to content

19. Win-Loss Records and Opportunities for Improvements TFDM Gateway STIL Service Registry CASi

20. Voyager for TFDM Reporting Connectors & Extractors Catalog Creation Exposing Catalog Extraction and Transformation Content Enrichment Search Services UI

21. TFDM Win-Loss Record • WIN: Indexed all of the features and web services • WIN: Proved efficiency of indexing without system impact — 200 million records a day • LOSS: How to present all of this information in a useful way to the user?

22. TFDM Opportunities • Opportunity: Configure the Voyager UI to best show content • Opportunity: Use Voyager to translate coded values in the data for a better search experience and clear understanding • Support the Analyst with RST=2 • Support the Casual User with Road Surface Type = Hard Paved Road • Opportunity: Use Voyager to deliver data as SHP, CSV, PDF or whatever spatial format you need • Opportunity: Visualize the data using existing web services

23. Quick Wins — TFDM Reporting Connectors & Extractors Catalog Creation Exposing Catalog Extraction and Transformation Extraction and Transformation Content Enrichment Content Enrichment Search Services UI

24. Voyager for Gateway Connectors & Extractors Reporting Publishing Catalog Creation Extraction and Transformation Content Enrichment User Interfaces Search Services

25. Gateway Win-Loss Record • WIN: Indexed all of the content • WIN: Enhanced the content through a custom rules service • LOSS: Content is only as good as whatever is indexed • LOSS: Links take you to the GDP, instead of delivery • LOSS: Presentation of “folder” structure for the content types

26. Gateway Opportunities • Opportunity: Add folder structure to group the types of content • Opportunity: Connect Voyager to the content • Opportunity: Deliver the content to the people searching for it • Opportunity: Eliminate need to maintain a custom solution

27. Quick Wins — Gateway and GDP Connectors & Extractors Connectors & Extractors Reporting Exposing Catalog Catalog Creation Extraction and Transformation Extraction and Transformation Content Enrichment Search Services User Interface User Interface

28. Voyager for STIL Connectors & Extractors Reporting Publishing Catalog Creation Extraction and Transformation Content Enrichment User Interfaces Search Services

29. STIL / NCL Win-Loss Record • WIN: Indexed all of the content provided in hours • WIN: Retained IDM Metadata

31. Quick Wins — STIL / NCL Connectors & Extractors Reporting Publishing Catalog Creation Extraction and Transformation Extractionand Transformation Content Enrichment User Interfaces Search Services

32. Voyager for the Service Registry Connectors & Extractors Reporting Publishing Catalog Creation Extraction and Transformation Content Enrichment User Interfaces Search Services

33. Service Registry Win-Loss Record • WIN: Provided a COTS solution within months • WIN: Add tagging to Voyager

34. Voyager for CASi Connectors & Extractors Reporting Publishing: Sending index to UWP Catalog Creation Content Enrichment: Doing extensive metadata normalization Export and Transformation Search Services: Sharing their index with ES User Interfaces: Using the Voyager UI

35. New UI • End user UI with modern presentation • Place finder • Integrated tagging • Heat map of all content • Featured content • Rating • Collections

40. Summary • Unlimited use license provides the freedom to deploy software wherever it’s needed • Fixed fee removes uncertainty of future cost increases • Voyager has taught Lucene to understand spatial • Voyager is a COTS product that can be used to solve more of the challenges of Enterprise Search beyond just indexing vector data

41. Questions?

42. Thank you