2012 Best Practices for Government Libraries

Simplifying Big Data Integration
One of the challenges of big data ingestion is that different
sources use different naming conventions for the same
thing—for example, the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act vs. national health insurance; American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 vs. Recovery Act; the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996 vs. HIPAA; and the list goes on.
As an aggregator with its own big data technology
platform, LexisNexis recognizes this challenge. We have
developed a smart-indexing taxonomy that enables
search engines to recognize apparently different
data elements as referring to the same topic. We also
enhance search functionality by applying metadata,
ensuring that you get the results you want. Further,
we do not alter the data nor do we add our opinion;
we present data as it came from the source. However,
our consistent formatting of multi-source data and
well-defined application interfaces allow seamless
integration into any data technology platform. There’s
no need to ingest differently formatted data from and
manage interfaces for thousands of separate sources—
LexisNexis has helped do the work for you.
In fact, LexisNexis has been performing data fusion
internally for years by aggregating various sources
of data, indexing and managing that data, applying
metadata, and making the enhanced data available
for search and retrieval by our customers. As the data
fusion industry has evolved to the era of big data, so has
LexisNexis. We have teamed up with big data industry
leaders to improve our indexing capabilities even more,
linking various data sources together for faster retrieval
and now making this vast array of content available as
value-added input to big data technology platforms.
Instead of using Web data extraction and buying data
directly from several individual sources—and then
undergoing intensive labor to integrate it into their
systems—platform providers can take advantage of
the extensive work that we have already done to clean
up and consistently format the data for easy, seamless
integration.
Finally, the business of acquiring and licensing data
is core to LexisNexis—so we have the resources and
proven processes to identify, negotiate, and license new
data quickly. If an organization or technology platform
provider requires a data source outside of the LexisNexis
repository, our content acquisition team may be tasked
with negotiating licenses to acquire and incorporate it.
In Summary
Big data clearly offers a host of benefits, introducing
opportunities across government and enterprise
markets to gain valuable insight into customers, business
partners, industry trends, etc. LexisNexis expands those
opportunities and leverages your big data technology
investment by serving as a single, trusted source of
aggregated news, business, legal, public records, and
patent content. With a vast collection of international
and domestic attributable sources, LexisNexis enables
you to both corroborate your data and broaden your
perspective. A consistent delivery format simplifies
comparative modeling, while our smart-indexing
taxonomy and applied metadata help you ensure that you
quickly get the most complete and relevant results. And
well-defined application interfaces streamline integration
into any big data technology platform, so you can
immediately reap the benefits of our multi-sourced data.
For additional information, please email LexisNexis Government Solutions at castgov@lexisnexis.com
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