You Be clean Freelancer in the building man I needed a break because it's like today started off like a little bit slow and then one guy got signed another guy got Signing everything just started happening back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back So y'all saw so many videos, but I appreciate y'all watching and I appreciate y'all checking them out. I love y'all now Lamar Jackson, of course, everybody's just waiting Everybody's wondering what's gonna happen now since it we are about An hour and a half in is 529 as I'm recording this video You'll see it a bit later, but um We're just waiting to see what's next. I know a lot of people right now are feeling like the Colts That they could end up possibly making a move for Lamar Jackson or signing him to an office sheet since the Colts They officially released Matt Ryan. They got rid of Stefan Gilmore They've been clearing out some cap space and they have a first-round pick this year Is it pick number four? Don't call me on that But I don't remember what pick it is But they got a good pick because it's a high pick and then of course it will be a first-round pick next year as well But that's a lot of people thinking right now that the Colts could be a team because you know Jim Earth say he live ought to do something crazy and I don't know man. So I again, we'll see we won't know anything until we know anything So that's the that remains the same, but this report and boy this report kind of like was like It just gave you a gave you a view of a possibility of the future just a possibility Now this was from Jerry Fallon He said the Ravens who face uncertainty around Lamar Jackson's future have been involved in the free agent quarterback market looking into options such as Baker Mefield and Jacobi Brissette before they signed with Tampa and Washington per league sources Baltimore appears to be looking for flexibility now saying that we always talk about stay ready so you ain't got to get ready and the Ravens so many people have been led to believe of course by All the reports that have continued to come out Once Lamar was placed on a non-exclusive tag so many people have been led to believe that a whatever somebody offers The Ravens are gonna match it Whatever somebody offers to them or whatever off a sheet they sign Lamar Jackson to the Ravens are for sure going to match it But This report would lead me to believe Otherwise not entirely but again the posses a possibility everything's possible right now Nothing is set in stone Especially Gino because it came out that they weren't gonna offer him a tender they didn't they didn't tend to him So now he's a free agent But I do think there's still hope that the Ravens could like sign him to a deal Cuz he ain't selling nobody else shout out to the Sean Elliot who's signing with the dolphins by the way So that should be fun to watch him there. He's a thumper. We already know about the Sean Elliot His only problem was just health. That was his biggest thing once he started staying healthy a disguise limit And then he even tweeted he was like, oh, I get to play a b-mo at the bank, too It's all good man, it should be fun when the dolphins all play the Ravens, I wish they played him in Miami, but anyway We yeah back to the quarterback situation stay ready. So you ain't got to get ready now Jeff's rebeck I remember when he posted an article in the athletic like Not a month ago, maybe like three weeks ago something like that But he posted an article in the athletic that talked about this and we made a video on it Highlighting on his his part on Baker Mayfield and that the Ravens really liked Baker Mayfield coming out of the draft And and Steve Bishari said even there was one game where Steve Bishari walked over to Baker Mayfield and gave him a big hug and I believe that was when the Ravens play the Panthers this past year Maybe Steve Bishari told him like hey, hey, hey, like hold it down. Just wait Just just wait on me this offseason. Just in case stuff goes south with Lamar. Just hold up Hold out. We might have to bring you on but of course Baker may feel he signed with the Bucks So he's been eliminated from this whole thing and Jacoby Brasette signed with the commander So he's also eliminated from this whole thing, but It does show that again like the report said the Ravens are looking for flexibility So they they looking for the looking at the options and they have to do that They have to do that because they don't know what's gonna happen with Lamar. They don't know They could have every single plan in place be like, alright, we're gonna do this if this happens We're gonna do that if that happens, we're gonna do that.  So you ain't got to get ready It's scary to think about it. It's really for me at least I know there's some Ravens fans that oh, yeah We want Lamar out of here been seeing a lot of Ravens fans do that recently even like My guy who was it? Let me go find it real quick because he asked the question. Oh my god Marcus He said what's with the fans and he he said engraving was what is up with some of the Ravens fans saying things like I'm over Lamar Lamar can kick rocks And I think that's just because people are just tired of the whole situation I've seen some of the biggest Ravens fans and biggest Lamar Jackson fans I've seen some of them be like, oh, no, I'm tired of Lamar I've seen it now Like one one shocked me because what one was one is one of my boys he wanted my boys and When he said he said look, I'm just I'm tired of Lamar when I saw that I said, whoa Oh, we still buddies, but I was just like whoa like when I when I saw from him I was like I couldn't believe it. I really couldn't believe it Okay, well, I mean everybody's entitled to their own opinion though But yeah, that's it people are just tired of how long it's been taken people are tired of all the different stories and different reports and rumors and Just people want the resolution so A lot of people like I whatever's gonna happen. Let it happen Some people just saying, you know what just to avoid everything moving forward. Some people like alright, let's just get rid of Lamar So it's it is what it is As far as how people feel like that's just how some people feel and then a lot of people that feel Different ways like me. I'm like, okay. Well, have a long this thing takes I'm here for the ride. I'm here for the ride, but he continued He said um like have they really forgotten all this man has done to save and salvage this organization Bad old line play lack of weapons on the outside bad play calling on top of being in the system that anyway I dig I digress It seems their fans have forgotten what all he's had to overcome since becoming the starter I have been amazed at some of the comments from the fans Especially when none of us really know for certain what's truly been offered or what's truly desired from Lamar Is that it perfectly? We don't know we don't know We don't truly know You've seen there's most recent report about a deal like you know was was crazy when you think about it The most recent report that we've seen with all this Raven stuff is about a deal that he was Apparently offered allegedly offered back in September. That's the most recent news that we know a deal that was offered back in September Think about that So anyway, he said what are your thoughts on the switch up from the so-called fans Again people again people just tired.  They ain't gonna be like all right Ravens Go to another city They can't do that But so they the only thing that they know that can possibly move is Lamar Jackson So a lot of fans like I Lamar Jackson go to another city So yes, that's that's all I think it is just people just frustrated And it's just it's been crazy Now my guy Oreo cookie, I guess this turned into episode of questions from subs But that's what happens around here.  We don't know what's gonna happen when we press the record button Going down memory lane my guy Oreo. He said hey engraving. I'm writing this right before 4 p.m. On March 15th at the moment We still have Lamar, but I was wondering when did you fall in love? With Lamar as the Ravens quarterback mine was week one 2019 when he threw that long touchdown in Hollywood Brown and we scored 60 on When did I fall in love? Excuse me with Lamar Jackson as Ravens QB? Well, you know, it's crazy y'all know that I don't watch college at all, but Little bit before the draft so what like March it was either late. No, it was late April 2018 Right before the draft me and my wife We were in Carter to we were flying up to Chicago because her family is from Chicago We're getting ready to spend some time up there and we flew jet blue and jet blue You know and jet blue like they got the TVs and stuff on the plane and whatnot So I turn on NFL network like I'm chilling. Let me watch NFL network See what they talking about before the draft to see if I could see some prospects or something So they were going through different quarterback prospects and whatnot and then I saw this one guy from Louisville His name was Lamar Jackson. They were showing some highlights and stuff. I'm like, oh, okay. Hey, I like that But then what got me cuz I didn't know cuz again, I know nothing about nothing cuz I don't I don't watch I don't watch college But what got me was when they said, oh, he he's from South Florida Oh Because and I was thinking about the previous Ravens the the legend Ravens the historic Ravens that are also from down here Obviously a Ray Lewis and a read. I mean, they were kind of good. Weren't they but when when he said that I was like Oh, and then I saw everything that he was doing. I said, oh man bring them on and I just ever since then I wanted the Ravens to draft Lamar Jackson Then the draft happened. I was live streaming it from my wife's father's house in Chicago And then the guy to the Ravens picked they picked Hayden Hurst I'm like, okay, we did need a title. I was cool with it But I love this point cuz it wasn't Lamar and then I remember when the Saints traded up I thought the Saints were gonna take Lamar Jackson, but they took Marcus Davenport I remember when the Patriots one o'clock. I thought they may take Lamar Jackson, but I forgot who they took that year and then My phone started going off while I was live streaming and it said, oh the Ravens traded back into the first one I said Is this it and It was and it was crazy. It was I loved it. I loved it. Um and That was like that's when I started falling in love with the idea of Lamar being a quarterback But then when he actually became like they actually drafted him I was like, oh, this is great and then I guess from on the field I remember going to we went to the Ravens training camp that year So we got to see them a little up close and personal or whatnot, but then I Remember doing a preseason. I think I think it was a preseason game against the Panthers where Lamar threw a touchdown to Hayden Hurst And I was like, oh, but where where I really just Went crazy. Of course, they they had Lamar and they would um during the regular season or early on excuse me They would put him in these different packages and whatnot But where I was really like going crazy was the game Ravens lost the game But it was Lamar's first regular season touchdown and that was against the Saints where It was on the goal line and I think he faked it too. Was it Alex Collins whoever it was He faked it to him kept it ran got a touchdown. I was going crazy. I was so hyped man I was so hyped. Um, and I just uh from there It was just like obviously from before there too, but that was Oh, yeah, it's cool. I was so happy. Um And then that game like that game hurt my heart so bad because the way that the Ravens lost Because the Ravens were down and Joe Flacco and then they started coming back and Joe Flacco threw the touchdown to John Brown uh, we're like no time left and then All Justin Tucker was gonna have to do was kick an extra point. We go to overtime. All right, let's go, baby Justin Tucker kicks it the wind blows and missed it Yeah, oh my goodness. I just sat there I sat there on the ground my wife was watching the game with me I just sat there on the ground for a while just sitting there just still not moving nothing just hurt That game hurt me so bad I don't know why that game had a a lot of game but that game hurt me so bad Maybe because it was like Lamar got his first touchdown So I also hype off of that and like all right. Hey, hopefully hopefully Raven get the win and I always wanted them always wanted them to win period but It just hurt but yeah Think of that was that was the uh, the the process of the cycle and then um everything just over time It just continued to build up after that. Um, so Yeah, man, it's it's been quite a ride. Um, I'm hoping that the ride isn't over. It seems like The passenger and the operator of the ride are not on good terms right now. So things are bumpy but I don't know. We all uh, we'll see we will see How things go and how things turn up but Yeah, and then one last thing I guess since this again is turning the question from sobs Might as well throw this one in there too from my god, kelv and see uh, he said the area slayed up Baltimore, uh, could it be a possibility if we get the area slayed in a bit more? He's better than Marcus Peters That's true. I love mp, but slayed with all pro molo would be nasty a nasty back line Uh, we signed the eagles db coach, right? Oh, he would fit right in that is a great point now, um, Initially when I first saw it, I'll be like no that that definitely happening, but it's the ravens You know ravens love them some defense. So like Anything's a possibility with any defensive player because you know, you know these ball tomorrow ravens um, but I I don't think it's gonna happen now The longer he's in free agency, it hasn't even been a day yet He just got released today, but the longer he's out there the higher the ravens chances increase um, but I don't I just I don't think that they'll do it. Um I just don't think they'll do it unless the only way that I could see them doing it And then it sounds sad and then I don't want this to happen at all But the only way I can see them doing it is if they moved off of them all God that would be the only way that I see them signing derriously If lima wasn't a raven anymore Which I hope doesn't happen, but I don't know kind of seemed like it's gonna happen, but I don't know man so yeah But hey again, we just got to wait this whole thing out and uh, see how things end up see how things turn up and See whatever's next. So like we keep saying we just we won't know until we know Uh, but until then we'll continue to uh, try to keep y'all updated try to keep y'all Let y'all know whatever's going on whether it's with the ravens or somebody else But definitely with the ravens. So I appreciate y'all team keep it clean. I love y'all team keep it clean and just like hopefully Lamar won't be when it comes to Being a member of the Baltimore Ravens I'm out Y'all and great for lock you up with playing football I'm a fanatic you see we got the magic and you and my boys are savage and no been challenging matters Let's go Making rage quit exit out the door Yeah, use your favorite team with up all the more


And that was a fantastic framing, and let me pick up if I could. The framing was actually not fantastic. Right now the two real security threats to the world are nuclear war and the climate crisis. And unfortunately, Congressman, the way that both the Democrats and Republicans have been pushing us in this war in Ukraine where we definitely condemn Russia, but we need negotiations. If we keep pouring billions of millions of dollars into this war, we're taking us to the brink of a nuclear war. Let's listen to the chair of the Joint Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, who said, seize the moment, go for negotiations. Raise your hand here if you'd like to see negotiations instead of a nuclear war. None of you? Come on, there's gotta be something. Actually, I'll take that as the first question, because I think it's a good point to get the mask on. I was asking the audience that actually, but I know, and Michael, I know you're a big cheerleader for the Iraq war and for other wars, so you don't really have a lot of legitimacy when it comes to using diplomacy, not war. But I think let's just put it in the context. So you don't want to hear any sort of discussion, you just want to talk. I just want to end my point here, which is to say that it's a shame that 30 Democrats who signed a letter to Biden calling for negotiations were so pilloried by people like you in the Democratic Party. I didn't pillorize them at all. If they withdrew their letter after 24 hours, the Democrats have to get back on board of calling for negotiations and not leave that to the extreme right of the Republican Party like Marjorie Taylor Greene. They shouldn't be the ones with the rational voice in all of this calling for negotiations. Democrats have to step forward, have to put the pressure on the Biden administration and say we need negotiations, not more war. The real security, the national security is addressing the climate crisis, getting people housed and not focusing on weapons. What?


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Welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us today for this webinar on Open Government at the National Archives. My name is Meredith Stewart. I help lead the development of the Open Government Plan for the National Archives and Records Administration, also known as NARA. Today we will provide you a brief overview of our Open Government efforts. But what we're really interested in is listening to your ideas and suggestions on what we should be doing or what we can do to improve our efforts in the next two years. In that spirit, this is an interactive webinar.  We have chat available in the webinar. You can also raise your hand to share your ideas or ask a question over the phone. Please also check out History Hub, a new collaborative site we are piloting. Create a login and submit your ideas at historyhub.archive.gov. Community. Open. Government. Throughout the webinar, Meg Phillips, our External Affairs Liaison, will be monitoring all of the ideas and questions submitted and bringing those into the conversation. Now we will hear about the webinar software from our moderator, Jamie, who will be assisting us today. Jamie? Thank you. You can adjust the view of today's presentation by pressing the Control and Plus or the Control and Minus button on your keyboard. As Meredith mentioned, you are welcome to submit written questions and ideas during the presentation. To do so, please use the Note function on the lower right-hand side of your screen and address your questions to all moderators. You can raise your hand by pressing pound two on your telephone keypad which will notify the speakers that you wish to ask a verbal question. If at any time you need a technical assistance, please send a note to the ATT-CEF operator. And with that, I'd like to turn it back to Meredith. Great. Thanks, Jamie. Now it is my honor to introduce the Archivist of the United States, David S. Ferriero. On November 6, 2009, he was confirmed as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Early in 2010, he worked to implement the President's commitment to open government and strengthen the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration at the National Archives and Records Administration. To better position NARA to fulfill these goals, Mr. Ferriero initiated an agency transformation in 2010 and restructured the organization and set goals to further our mission, meet the needs of those who rely on us, and find new creative ways to approach work. He has opened the archives in unprecedented ways through greater online access, social media tools, and through encouraging public participation and celebrating the contributions of citizen archivists. Previously, Mr. Ferriero served as the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Library and in top positions at two of the nation's major academic libraries, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University. Welcome Archivist David Ferriero. Thank you, Meredith, and thanks to all of you who have joined the webinar. I'm looking forward to this conversation. Today we'll be discussing open government, a topic about which I am very passionate. In fact, it's the reason I accepted the President's nomination for this position. To start with, I want to share this quote with you. On January 21, 2009, President Barack Obama welcomed senior staff and cabinet secretaries to the White House. In his remarks, he said, our commitment to openness means more than simply informing the American people about how decisions are made. It means recognizing that the government does not have all the answers and that public officials need to draw on what citizens are. These words underscore our work on open government. Fundamentally, we need to do more to not simply inform, but to really engage the public we serve. The White House's Open Directive Initiative furthers the effort to strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in government. On December 8, 2009, the White House issued the Open Government Directive, requiring federal government agencies like the National Archives to make specific progress on open government initiatives and to develop an open government plan and update that plan every two years. We have been meeting that requirement since 2010 and they are now continuing that process by reaching out to you for your ideas and developing our next open government plan for 2016 to 2018. The Open Government Initiative continues to The Open Government Initiative is also an international one. The United States is one of the eight founding members of the Open Government Partnership. Launched in 2011, it serves as an international platform for countries committed to making their government more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Today, the partnership has grown to 69 countries around the world. As part of the requirements of the Open Government Partnership, the United States develops an Open Government National Action Plan. We released the third version of that plan in October 2015. Within the National Action Plan, the National Archives plays an important role by leading on commitments for records management, freedom of information, declassification, controlled, unclassified information, and in open innovation activities. Today, we are working to develop our next Open Government Plan for the National Archives, which will be our fourth plan. The Open Government Directive designed agency Open Government Plans to be a public roadmap for incorporating the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration into the mission of agencies. At the National Archives, Open Government has always been part of our mission. After all, we've been providing access to the records of the government and our research rooms since the 1930s. Our current emphasis on Open Government guided us when we refined our mission statement, which is we drive openness, cultivate public participation, and strengthen our nation's democracy to public access to high-value records. In the last five years, we've completed more than 120 Open Government commitments. You're going to hear about some of these accomplishments today from some of the leaders of the National Archives. We have accomplished a lot in strengthening Open Government, but we have more work to do. There is work and improvements we need to make in the coming years, especially in how we serve you. We need to continue to innovate and create a culture of innovation. We need to try new strategies of public engagement, which is one of the reasons why we chose to do this public webinar with you today. Please chime in. It's your webinar. We know that we don't have all the answers we want to draw on what you know and your ideas for improving. Thank you. Thank you, David. Now I would like to introduce Pamela Wright, the Chief Innovation Officer at the National Archives. Thanks for joining us, Pam. Thanks, Meredith. I'm excited to be here and talking with everybody on the line about our Open Government plan. First, I'm going to start off talking about the process for developing the plan, and then we'll go into some of the specifics about the content of the Open Government plan. You can see on this slide images of the three plans we've had since 2010. We're now working on our fourth Open Government plan, which will include commitments over the next two years. We've had a yellow, a blue, and a green plan, and we have not picked out the color yet for the next plan, so if nothing else, you could suggest the color. At NARA, we have an internal working group made up of representatives throughout the agency who meet monthly to coordinate our Open Government efforts. In the last few months, the group has been working to develop our next Open Government plan. Altogether, more than 40 staff members will contribute commitments and content for the plan, and we are on track to publish this plan this summer. As the archivist said earlier, we have completed more than 120 commitments on Open Government since our first plan. Many of these commitments started off as discussions and ideas, either internally in the agency or externally from stakeholders like you. In order to give you a sense of what we're looking for in our next plan, I want to describe some of the highlights from our first three plans. We improved our online catalog, the National Archives catalog, and introduced new features, including user-generated transcription, tags, comments, as well as an API, and we optimized the site for mobile development. We became a founding partner of FOIA Online, a site where the public can electronically request and receive Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, responses from several agencies. The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the grant-making affiliate of the National Archives, helped launch the Founders' Online Web site, which makes available the historical documents of the Founders of the United States. We implemented researcher-based final indexing and processing at the National Declassification Center, and we released collections of records on human rights in Brazil, on refugee records, and on records related to the Berlin Wall. And another significant accomplishment is that we used the Managing Government Records Directives we issued. I'm sorry, the Managing Government Records Directives in conjunction with the White House. We implemented research-based records directed in conjunction with the White House Office of Management and Budget, as well as electronic records management guidance. On this slide, we have provided you a draft outline of our Open Government Plan. These are the proposed sections that we are currently brainstorming. Please keep these topics in mind as we continue throughout the webinar, and as you think about ideas or feedback you'd like to share. Because our Open Government Plan has many topic areas, we're only talking about a few of the topics today. However, we still want you to share your ideas and feedback on all of these areas, and even beyond the topics on this slide. So right now, we are engaging in a consultation process to develop our next plan. We're reaching out to staff members of civil society or public interest groups, and our stakeholders around the country. In previous plans, we had more than 160 ideas, comments, and suggestions for strengthening transparency, participation, and collaboration at the National Archives. We're hoping for our fourth plan that we can do even better at engaging the public and our staff in the development process. We want to hear your ideas today on the webinar through chat or through phone. After the webinar has concluded, we would encourage you to share your ideas on the Open Government Space on History Hub at historyhub.archives.gov slash open-government or email opengov.gov and please be sure to share your ideas by Friday, April 15th so they can be considered for the next plan. All right, so now I'm going to shift gears just a little bit and talk about what has been the flagship of our previous Open Government Plan, our innovation work at the National Archives. As the Chief Innovation Officer, I've led the development of this section, which is included work on establishing a program strategy and governance board, improving the National Archives catalog in order to provide access to millions of our records online and improving our website, archives.gov, which we have been working to move to Drupal Content Management System and into the cloud, and next year we want to redesign. So send your ideas now on what you'd like on archives.gov. It would be great. On this slide, you can see part where we engage the public on crowd-sourcing projects, like transcription and tagging missions, subtitling videos, and on our most recent pilot, History Hub. History Hub is a site where you can post your questions on researching the records of the National Archives. As you've heard today, we're also using it to gather your ideas on the next Open Government Plan. We've seen a lot of activity on this platform in only a few weeks that it's been up, and there are staff members who help point researchers to records and online resources, as well as records at other institutions like the Library of Congress or Smithsonian. We are even starting to see researchers help each other in their research. This pilot is an extension of the work we've done on our internal collaboration at the National Archives, which has been successful. We learned a lot by leveraging a similar site internally, and now we're experimenting with the site publicly. Our flagship initiative has also included efforts to strengthen our collaboration with external organizations like Wikipedia and the Digital Public Library of America. And last year, we welcomed presidential innovation fellows to NARA to experiment with digital tools to provide greater access to our records. Within the past year, we also launched the Innovation Hub, a collaborative space at the National Archives Building in downtown Washington, D.C., with a scanning lab where volunteers can then make those available in the catalog. The Innovation Hub also hosts events like Editson, Hackathon, and has a Wikipedia exhibit space. We're also working to expand activities that can spark a culture of innovation throughout the agency. All right, so this is the big question. Where do we go from here? What innovations do you think we should be pursuing over the next two years? Is there something you'd like to see on the Citizen Archivist Dashboard that you haven't seen before? Or in the National Archives catalog or in our Innovation Hub? What do you think we should be doing better to serve you and have to be doing it more innovatively? Also, we'd love to hear if there are particular digital tools that would be more helpful to you as you use the records of the National Archives. What are you seeing and using in the institutions you think NARA should know about and try? We want to hear it all from you. Hey, thank you, Pam. It is now my pleasure to introduce and coming Access Coordinator for Research Services at the National Archives and Records Administration. And thank you for joining us. Thank you, Meredith. I am also pleased to be here today to discuss Open Government at the National Archives. Research Services is comprised of 14 archival units and is responsible for 4,380,000 cubic feet of archival holdings from agencies within the Executive Branch. We have 568 staff members and the functions that we complete include sessioning of permanent records, the processing and description of records at a basic level to facilitate access to our holdings through NARA's online archival catalog, completing basic preservation to ensure that future generations will have continued access to our materials and digitizing select series from the permanent holdings to enhance access. In addition to these functions, Research Services provides access to our holdings to on-site and off-site researchers. As part of our services, we provide on-site consultation about our holdings to assist researchers. In 2015, we completed over 47,000 requests for information from off-site researchers. We provide copies of our records through digitization, facsimiles, DVDs, and paper copies. Staff provide additional content to our research group to provide information about our holdings. In 2015, staff provide additional context about our records through various web pages, blogs, and YouTube videos. Finally, Research Services has a FOIA staff that reviews sensitive or restricted permanent materials for possible release. This staff balances access with openness. So, as you can see, our services already support the concepts around open government. But we are here to explore opportunities to improve openness and transparency. So, with this in mind, Research Services has the following questions. What can we do to make your research experience as successful as possible? What new or different kind of research services would you like to see? And how should Research Services communicate or connect with you? We want to provide a positive flow of information both ways. Thank you, Anne. Now I'm going to ask Meg Phillips, our External Affairs Coordinator, to check in. Meg, do you have any comments or questions that you'd like to bring in from chat? Yes, we certainly do. Thank you. We just got a suggestion saying that it would be wonderful if the NARA catalog could be tweaked to allow online ordering of records pulled. This would give researchers more time to be able to use their records to make their records pulled. We also got another suggestion a little bit earlier while Pam was talking, asking if NARA had ever done specific outreach to journalists offering an Archives 101 sort of briefing to journalists on how archives work and how to use them. So thank you very much for those suggestions. We actually just got by chat while I was inserting those. The one that just came in says, what can be done to improve FOIA communications? Right now, once a FOIA has been made, there's no communication until it's completed. Can anything be done to facilitate communication with records with regards to the progress of a FOIA request? Also, could anything be done to improve the public's ability to use a FOIA request to make it easier and more understandable? I think that leaves well into our next section. So we're going to introduce our next presenter, Gary M. Stern, NARA's General Counsel and Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer. Gary, thank you for joining us. Thank you, Meredith. I am NARA's General Counsel. I'm here today, principally in my role as our Chief FOIA Officer. And FOIA is, of course, a vital, but not the only way that the National Archives makes its records available. And just before me, describe how we make access happen to our archival records every day and the vast majority of our archival records, 4 million feet, that's 10 billion pieces of paper in the other formats. We make it available, those records available every day outside and without the need for the use of FOIA. And indeed, we've been providing access to National Archives since 1934 when we were created long before there was a FOIA. And that's our core mission. But FOIA, nonetheless, is an important tool that we use for very complex records that contain lots of sensitive information, have to go through a FOIA review and a FOIA process in our core archival holdings. And we utilize FOIA for seeking access to the records that NARA creates itself as an agency. We call those our operational records. And by the way, you want to mention that in addition to what Anne described, we have records at 13 presidential libraries, seem to be 14 in our Center for Legislative Archives. Now a whole bunch of those records aren't subject to FOIA at all, but the records in the newer presidential libraries that fall into the Records Act also are subject to FOIA. So that's another place where the FOIA becomes essential. And then, as this first slide shows, just a quick summary of the FOIA goals in our current open government plan and the efforts we've tried to do to reduce our backlog and respond more quickly to the FOIA request along the lines that the commenter on chat indicated seeking better improvement because there's no question that at times there can be very long waits in some of our areas where we have very long multi-year backlogs. A requester wants to get an update of where they stand and what's going on, and so that's something we will take into account and try to figure out how to better communicate. We're also trying to modernize and improve our technology, to use technology to help speed up and our processing of complex FOIA requests. And that's what we're hoping to really bring those tools into use when we launch our update of our electronic records archives, the ERA 2.0 we call it, in the coming years. And so we really want further input from you from the next slide in terms of developing our version four of our plan, what other ideas and thoughts do you have to help us come up with new goals and the other person said and ask how can we make it easier to make FOIA requests? That's something that we've already tried to do by helping to launch and utilize what we call FOIA online. It's an online portal that multiple agencies are using, and we're hoping eventually the entire government adopts so it's one place where you can go and with drop-down, find the agency you want online, put in your request. You have to register so that you have contact information so then the agency, whether it's an R or any other agency, can respond back to you, respond to your request, and provide you the records also online. So those are already... that's also a tool we've already been using to improve FOIA, making it easier to respond and to provide the records. That's where we are right now and we welcome your ideas and your feedback. Thank you. Great, thanks, Gary. It is my pleasure to introduce Cheryl Senberger, the director of the National Declassification Center at the National Archives. Thank you for joining the webinar today, Cheryl. Thank you, Meredith. Like the programs that Pam and Ann and Gary talk about, NDC's primary mission is to increase public access to historical records, too. So what does declassification look like at the National Archives in 2016? NDC's focus, just as a reminder to all, is on 25-year-old and older, still classified records series, accession to the archives in College Park. We are applying quality assurance to classified records series for identifying potentially still sensitive national security information within one year of their accessioning here. No more backlogs. With our hands around this quality assurance mission and physical and intellectual control over the classified and declassified holdings, our success with retiring that enormous backlog means we can expand our public interaction and focus more on prioritization. To support that, we established a senior archive specialist position to liaise with the public. She works with College Park reference staff and the researcher to facilitate requests and enhance their understanding of the NDC process. We're using our public website and our blog when new series of records have completed the declassification process and are available for research. And we've expanded this to include specific series that have been through the declassification process and are available for prioritized indexing, as Pam noted earlier. This new indexing on demand feature allows researchers to have a voice as to which records can go to the head of the line. And we're reaching out to you for your comments by way of this webinar and our yearly forums. Our last one was last March, which solicited topics for potential prioritized review and comments about the failings of declassification process. The archives are a historian's best friend, and NDC continues to pay special review attention to historical collections. Pam noted a couple in her action plan highlights, and I'm particularly excited about a project associated with headquarters office file records of the Secretary of Defense, associated with record group 330. That's a request made by some distinguished historians and civil society members, some of whom I'm hopeful are tuning in with us today. To expand our success with prioritization, NDC applied automation to declassification referral notification and tracking. In order to hold agencies accountable to that one-year turnaround written out in the executive order for their referral review, and they're making their deadlines. We've also added a presidential library record focused on our interagency review efforts with a establishment of a limited remote archives capture online review capability at College Park. Gary just talked about FOIA. Our part of FOIA involves the classified FOIA backlog reduction. For FY15, it was 26%. We are aiming to build on that with exploring on-site FOIA consultation and processing, aimed at older, maybe forgotten overlooked, lost cases and requests. Finally, as you all know, the spirit of declassification, transparency, and open government means nothing classified can stay classified forever. That has prompted us to commit to a legacy withdrawn items re-review. It's our special systematic declassification review program for previously reviewed and exempted historical federal records that were accession to the National Archives, but reviewed before the NDC was created. Section 3 of the recently issued U.S. Government National Action Plan 3.0, streamlining the declassification process says, while national security interests require that certain information be protected as classified, democratic principles require government to be transparent wherever possible about its activity. Declassification is a time-consuming and costly process that often involves manual review of records. That last line is particularly important to us at the NDC. So can you help us better target our efforts? We all believe front-end declassification reform is desirable, but what can we do on the back end? How can NDC enact declassification processing reforms on accession to historical records at the National Archives? How about the declassification community? Has it truly applied the concept or the spirit of automatic declassification? Are there topics, themes, document types, or timelines that might be amenable to true automatic declassification? Thank you, Cheryl. Now we're going to take a moment to check in with Meg Phillips to see if there's questions or comments on chat. Hi, Meredith. Thank you. I think there's a little time delay while people think about the presentation, so the comments coming in on chat are not closely related to the people who just spoke, but we did get some really good comments, so I'm going to insert them just because we got them. For the Innovation Hub, we got a suggestion to allow for smaller scanning projects for lesser used series. As long as the series does not include volumes or anything that the research room would not allow to be placed on a photocopier. That's a great idea. We got another suggestion related to FOIA. Regarding FOIA, the speaker asked if there are proactive disclosures of operational records that would be useful. Yes. Coming immediately to mind are the accessioning paperwork when collections are transferred to NARA from agencies. Also, the forms used to appraise records. Adding these would complement the retention forms that have been scanned and are now on the NARA public website. Great. Thanks, Meg. It's actually a great segue into our next presentation. I would like to now introduce Laurence Brewer. Laurence is the Acting Chief Records Officer of the U.S. Government and Director of the Records Management Operations Program at the National Archives and Records Administration. Thank you for joining us today, Laurence. Thank you, Meredith. So I'm batting clean up today. I'm pleased to talk with all of you about what we have accomplished in records management in support of open government. In the Office of the Chief Records Officer, we'd like to say the backbone of a transparent and accountable government is good records management. And we have the t-shirts to prove it. To put it simply, the government cannot be accountable if it does not preserve and cannot find its records. Our office leads records management across the government with an emphasis on electronic records and assesses the effectiveness of federal records management policies and programs. Our staff, which consists of about 100 full-time staff members in the Washington, D.C. area and around the country, works with over 250 different federal agencies in a number of different areas including developing electronic records management policy and guidance, providing records management training to agency records officers, information technology professionals, program managers and legal counsels, conducting inspections and reporting of record-keeping practices to identify where improvements can be made and best practices shared, working with agencies to appraise and schedule either for permanent retention or eventual disposal the records that each agency creates to ensure adequate and proper documentation of our government actions. As Pam mentioned, in August 2012, NARA and the Office of Management and Budget jointly released the Managing Government Records Directive. This watershed document requires that to the fullest extent possible, agencies eliminate paper and use electronic record-keeping to ensure transparency, accountability and efficiency. There are two high-level goals in the directive that we are actively working with agencies on. But first, by December 2016, agencies must manage all their email electronically and that is no more printing and filing. And by December 2019, agencies must manage all permanent electronic records in an electronic format. In our 2014-2016 Open Government Plan, we highlighted a number of projects, some of which have been completed. In September 2013, we held an industry day that focused on identifying solutions to the government's information management challenges. The event was designed to enable industry to better understand the federal information management vision, requirements, priorities and business opportunities. As part of this activity, a request for information was issued asking vendors to describe how their solutions could help automate electronic records management, reducing the burden on agency and users. Over 50 private-sector vendors submitted responses. This led to the publishing of the Automated Electronic Records Management Report and Plan. The report covers the goals of electronic records automation and the plan remains a living document that we update annually. We have also continued the issue of guidance on email management, including the cap-semit approach to managing email, which is a role-based approach that allows agencies to categorize and schedule email records based on the position of the email account owner in the agency. We believe this is an efficient and effective, cost-effective way to meet the requirements of the managing government records directive. NAR has also issued new and expanded guidance that greatly expands the format that agencies can use when transferring permanent records to the National Archives. Our ongoing activities include the work we are doing on the Record Control Schedules repository. For several years now, we have been posting on our public website scanned images of all unclassified, NARA-approved record schedules from 1973 forward. This repository provides agencies and the public with access to agency record schedules and increases transparency into the record scheduling process. Finally, we continue to work on improving our general record schedules, NARA-approved schedules that all agencies may use to identify and disposition records consistently across the government. The new GRS is organized functionally, aggregates related records where possible, includes more flexible retention for temporary records, and includes implementation tools and resources such as frequently asked questions. The new GRS will provide for more effective records management in agencies, making it easier to find current records when requested. Looking ahead to the 2016-2018 plan, I'm very interested in getting your feedback and your comments on a couple of things. A couple of questions here on the slide for you to consider. What additional guidance is needed to ensure that agencies are better able to manage their e-mail and other electronic records? And also, what are emerging technologies, records management related, or not? Do you think we'll have the greatest impact on records and information management in the government? Thank you, Lauren. Now we would like to open the conversation up even more to those of you who have joined us on the webinar. We want to hear and respond to your ideas, comments, and suggestions, and we can also answer your questions. And I'm going to ask for the NARA executive that when you respond, please state your name and position, so that way everyone on the webinar kind of knows who's talking. That will be clear. You can also send your questions in via chat or raise your hand and we can unmute you. We would also like to encourage you to try out the History Hub platform, which we are monitoring, where you can create a login and share your ideas on the open government space. Meg, do we have any questions from chat that have come in? Questions or comments? I have a couple of questions. The first one I think is for Pam. We now have commenting and other ways for the public to interact with NARA through the catalog. And the question is how many and what kinds of comments are we getting? This is Pam, Chief Innovation Officer. That's a great question, Meg. Thank you. We just opened it up, the catalog, to comments. And we really weren't sure what kind of comments we would be getting. We have done a lot of transcription. We have almost 100,000 transcriptions in the catalog and hundreds of thousands of tags already in the catalog, but commenting is new. And so we really weren't sure what we'd be getting. It's been wonderful. The first 10 that came in have actually been edits to the descriptions that we have in the catalog. So we're now looking at how we can take those edits and work those back into the archival staff to see if we need to update the description or what we can do with it. So it's been exciting to get those comments. I think there are people in the public that really want to work with the National Archives and help us make access happen and do the best that we can and these comments are the kinds of evidence that I have for that. Thank you. The next question is, I believe for Cheryl, about declassification. Since presidential records are some of the most interesting historical records, what is the NBC doing to get the presidential records more available? Well, first of all, our primary focus has been on federal records that were not necessarily presidential records. They had a program going and we weren't going to get into their shorts, to speak. But we decided it would be good to work with presidential libraries and presidential records because they are really historically really valuable to public requests, for public requests. And so after a few years we were able to find the space and the resources to set up a couple of online review stations here at College Park. It made it way more convenient for some of the agencies who had said in the past that one of the reasons they weren't able to do a lot of their presidential library reviews was because it was not a convenient location for them to review. I'm happy to say that it started as a very small effort with just a couple of agency interests and now it's expanded to about 10 agencies. A lot of your heavy hitters are coming out here to review records that relate to libraries we're trying to complete like Kennedy and Johnson and Nixon and Ford and some of the Carter. So we have limited space to do this, but we are happy to provide this opportunity. And as more agencies are interested, we expand it to more agencies. Sure. I guess this is Pam again, Chief Innovation Officer. And I just wanted to acknowledge that I see the question on journalism, doing a journalism archives 101 briefing for journalists comes from Andrew Lee who has worked with us in the Innovation Hub with bringing students in for Wikipedia projects. So thanks so much, Andrew, for that idea of Archives 101 for Journalists. I think that's a great idea and I think we probably need it online for other folks as well. I could see that being a really useful tool. Somebody, I think either online or somewhere, I just saw the suggestion that we should have a quick video that explains what we do. And so this kind of goes right along with that. So thanks, Andrew, for that. Another suggestion just came in through chat. It says about monthly, NARA publishes in the Federal Register brief descriptions of record control schedules, pending approval, and seeking public comment. It would be helpful if NARA would proactively post all of the pending records control schedules to some place on their website, along with the associated appraisal reports. Right now, if I'm considering commenting, I have to email a request for those forms and this slows down the approval process. If I could see the forms without having to ask first for them, then it would save everyone some time. This is Lawrence, acting chief record officer. Thank you for the comment. We have received feedback along those lines and it's something that, you know, we should consider making better use of the technology right now as you note the Federal Register and the process that they have outlined is how we run the public review and request process for pending record schedules, but it's something that we could take back, maybe talk to the Federal Register and our specialist here in technology delivery and maybe we can make some progress in that area. Jamie, have any questions come in over the phone? We do not have any in queue and just a reminder to everyone dialed in, you can press sound 2 on your telephone keypad to place yourself into the question queue and ask a verbal question or comment to our speakers. I do have one more question that's for Lawrence, but maybe for others as well, about the upcoming presidential transition. It says with 2016 being a presidential administration transition year, is NARA concerned about the protection of records as senior agency officials change over with the administration? Thank you, Manny. This is Lawrence again. That's a good question and yes, we are certainly concerned. We want to make sure that every agency in the executive branch that is managing a transition, whether our incoming and departing, career executives and political appointees are making sure that the record keeping practices that protect those records are in place. We receive some data in our annual reporting cycle where we ask agencies specifically what actions they're taking and where they are with putting the processes in place and doing the briefings of those officials to make sure that the records are protected. And the data shows us that about 80% of agencies responding are on top of it and have implemented procedures and are briefing their senior officials. And while 80% is not 100%, it's a good data point that shows that there is a lot of attention in most agencies, but we are continuing to work with the other agencies, especially the other 20% and making sure that we provide some tools and guidance. We have some information up on our website which we have shared with agencies and we are working with the partnership or public service that oversees the transition teams for all those federal agencies to make sure that we connect to the right people and agencies to ensure that the records are protected. And I would just add, this is the archivist and I would just add that we recently hosted a meeting of all the senior agency officials for records management and this was one of the items on the agenda reminding them that this is their responsibility to ensure that the records are in proper order during this transition. This is Meg. We have one more suggestion or question that came in through chat. What progress has been made or is being made currently on a unified researcher card system for all facilities and submission of records requests and pull slips digitally or remotely? This is Anne Cummings, Access Coordinator for Research Services. Currently, I believe the executive is still working with the Office of Information Technology on looking at what's available in terms of a unified researcher card system. That's the progress on that at this point and having a unified way for researcher requests for records to be submitted is something that we're all very interested in and we're very hopeful that someday we'll become a reality. Jamie, any questions on the phone? We do not have any questions in the queue. I'm wondering if any of the executives want to address any of the comments that came up earlier in our conversation. And if not, we can go to Meg for some more. Meg, any more questions or comments coming in over chat? We've seen quite a few questions and comments come in over chat and this has actually been pretty successful for us in our first time doing this and kind of opened to the public. We'd encourage you, if you do want to get on the phone, we would be willing to hear your voice and answer your questions directly. We have not done this before but we were guessing about whether people would prefer chat or phone and it looks like you prefer chat. We would be more than happy to get... Oops, I just saw something else come in. Interesting. We just got a question come in through chat related to social media and copyright. When can you use a NARA image in a Twitter profile? I think the question is about NARA images of our record. So can our people freely available able to use the historical images that are in the National Archives catalog that we make available as their Twitter profile? Sure, so I'll start with a catalog. This is Pam and then maybe Ann can follow up. The images that are in the catalog are unrestricted. So you can go ahead and tweet those to your hearts content. We love it. And we have about 10 million digital objects or images in the catalog ready to go. So please feel free to make copies of any of those that you find that are online. And then, Ann, do you want to talk about the ones that are not online? Sure, the ones that are not online, in most instances they are unrestricted. You can use them. But I would caution that you should ask one of the archvists or one of your finding the image to verify particularly for photographs. Sometimes we do have a few copy-rided images. So I would recommend that you ask if you're unsure. And this is Gary Stern in the Nile Pocket General Counsel and Copyright is a legal concept that for the most part, as Ann indicated, does not apply to government records. The Copyright Act specifically excludes government records and government records are in the public domain. And as Ann said, anyone can use them for any purpose. However, we have small bits within our collection that may be and in fact sometimes are subject to copyright. Sometimes we know it. Sometimes we're not sure. And it's really in the photographs, motion pictures, and music that sometimes the government collects or obtains and uses as part of creating a record or an artifact. And sometimes those are subject to copyrights. We do try to explain to the researcher that ultimately the researcher's responsibility to determine appropriate use. There is fair use allowance in the Copyright Act for research purposes often and using small portions of copyrighted material. But the researcher does need to be cognizant, especially those types of the media photos, film, music in which copyrights can still exist. But if you find it in the catalog, go for it and use it. And there's a lot of great stuff in the catalog, a lot of great things that you could share on social media. And if you check out one of our most popular social media sites today's document, you get a wide range of records and images that we're sharing on historical topics. So we've gotten a couple more chat suggestions. They're popping up as we speak. I'm going to stay with the catalog theme with the next one. This comment states that the online catalog is great, but legacy paper finding aids sometimes are helpful for context and browsing is far easier with the paper finding aids. Can they be digitized or at least a browsing experience be created for the online catalog? That is a great question. And something, again, this is Pam Wright, the Chief Innovation Officer, and something that we're really talking about in depth at the National Archives. There are a lot of archivists that understand that researchers really want and really like those tried and true old finding aids, the paper finding aids, and some of them aren't that old. So what can we do online? And what can we do to make finding aids online as useful as those and as browsable as those? And yeah, I agree, the catalog is great, but it can be an ocean that you're dropped into, so how can we change that? So we're talking a lot right now about user-created finding aids in which we put the tools around the catalog or in the catalog so that you can create a finding aid of your own. You just put in the parameters of what you want and have it give you a current state-of-the-art finding aid that's browsable and useful to you. So we are already working on user personas and starting to do requirements so that we can have those kinds of tools in the catalog available to you to make exactly the kind of finding aid you'd like to see. Thank you, Pam. The next question or suggestion is, this really is a question, I think, is for Ann. Can someone describe the recent changes in research services concerning staffing, staff training, and other new issues? So within the last year, research services had, you know, a very exciting thing happen. We got to redefine our Archives Technician position description and what they did and what we wanted them to do with the hopes that we could bring a more knowledgeable staff into the research room to do monitoring and, you know, pools and refiles and whatever else needs to be transpired to provide limited consultation services. In order to do that, we developed a training program that all of them would go through. We're in the first year of it. We're hoping to get the first group or wave of people through it by June. And so, you know, like everything that's the first time through, there's some fits and starts and there's some bumps along the way. But overall, the change has been very positive to both staff and the bulk of the researchers in the research room. We've heard some good things back to them. So that's what's actually happening. Once we get a group through or several groups through the program, we feel that, you know, we'll be making an assessment both from staff perspective and researchers' perspective on what they think of what happens. Hopefully, they'll find it a very positive thing also. Meg, I think we have time for maybe one more question or comment. I have exactly one waiting, but I haven't read you yet. So I do want to encourage people to keep sending them in, however, because we need the input, whether we're able to respond to them live during the webinar or not. So keep sending your input. The last suggestion or question is the new conservation rules applicable to research rooms at A1 and A2 have caused a great deal of controversy and hampered access. Is this something that will be reviewed? Thank you for your comment. Yes, we can certainly review it. I have nothing else waiting in the chat queue. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone. Okay, we're going to wrap up today's webinar. Please continue the conversation on History Hub or you can email directly at opengov at narah.gov. We'd also like to hear your thoughts on this webinar format and how it went for you. Was it useful to have this conversation or are there other formats you would prefer? David, do you have any final words for us as we wrap up today's webinar? Can we unmute the archivist? It appears he dropped off the line. Oh, no. So we were going to have some closing remarks, so thanks, everyone, for joining us. And we'll be sure to try to repeat this process if it was helpful in the future. Thank you so much. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, everyone.


TfN News Update Hello everybody, this is Basil Chapman and this is the last trading day of the week and Christmas Eve we're looking at here. Well, Christmas Eve will be tomorrow. We're off tomorrow and we're looking at the Dow up 210. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas. We're looking at the Dow up 212 and 35,966. Getting close to the 36,189. If we go above that, that'll certainly exceed that. It'll be very good. Yes, I've drawn the art formation in to say there's a chance to make a second art formation. But so far this is all acting very well for Subscribers to an Opening Call. We did go long early Tuesday morning before the opening of the Dow. We added to our call long position, long-term position. We added a trading position and we'll just see where this is going. This is one of those times where I don't know yet whether we're going right soon within the next two weeks to start our trip to the downside underneath 34,700. Well, this actually tries to an all-time high. So far the technicals are improving but they're not great. The S&P on the other hand is so close to an all-time high at 47.23. 20 points and it tests the old high of 47.43. Very good action, helping the weekly chart a lot. Look at the QQQ. It's been struggling. It isn't as good as the others in the chart formation. But it's acting very well today up at .84. 395, we'll talk a little bit more about this, how I'm going to raise the Chaff Wave inside track repellent zone. Now you've got other levels to look at. So if by any time next week we get to 401, that's a very good action. This whole three, 91 support on the short term. Looking at the IWM, the IWM Russell 2000, really struggling. Yes, it's up 32, but it's very, very weak. We're looking also at gold, which tries to get a rally and then it just kind of fails. It's 200-period movie damage. Look at it. It's like a magnet. It's like no matter what happens on the upside, how far it goes, even 1880. It comes back down and goes under, even if it goes down to the 1770s. It comes right back and now it is at 1806, struggling at that 200-period moving average. Look at Crude Oil. Crude Oil is acting quite nicely, but also it's up against the 50-period moving average. Not going anywhere, but not breaking down. So TLT, we want to talk about when we get back here. TLT is down the $1.29. Therefore, yields are going a little higher. This is going to be very important. I suspect we're going to see some selling towards the end of the day. We'll see what happens. I'll be back for my Tiger Technicians Hour. Take care.


Hello everyone, I'm dream I'm very glad to join the open source submit Europe My topic today is how to accelerate Approximately nearest neighbor search for large-scale data set. This is in 101 for our project mules By creating this new infrastructure software for AI. We believe we have helped to make AI Technologies more accessible to every people so that everyone can utilize AI technologies to empower themselves First let me introduce myself I'm dreamers there as partner technical evangelists. I'm also a voting member of the Technique advisory community at the air fae foundation before joining zealous. I help for I Walk for ICBC IBM Morgan Stanley and Huawei I had it being a database engineer for 14 years in these two years. I turn to act as a Database product manager and also I'm the technology evangelist of the rivers project Who is zealous? This is the abbreviation for zealous not zealous So you can know by name that we are engaged in data related technology We are a technologist startup We focus on developing data science software based on heterogeneous computing We drive our software business models through open source. Our vision is to reinvent data science Which means we are aimed to provide data-related Technologies for the new domain the new scenario and the new requirements We want to help people better discover the value contained in data our open source project Nuvus during the RF AI foundation as an incubation project early this year. So now zealous is a major contributor of the Milvers project Okay, let's get into the topic We generally divided the data into three categories. The first is structured data Including numbers states strings and so on The second one is semi structured data mainly includes that tax information with a certain format Such as various system blocks The third is so-called unstructured data like pictures video voice natural language text These are not easy to be understood by the computer Relational database traditional big data these technologies are to solve the problem of structured data and For semi structured data people have a text-based the search engine but Only for the unstructured data which accounts for 80% of the total data sphere has been lacking in effective and elastic methods in the past Until the rise of AI deep learning technology in recent years unstructured data processing is accelerated So the term of deep learning model is that it can convert The unstructured information which originally the computer is difficult to understand to into the feature Information here the invading vectors So the analysis of unstructured data is transforming to vector computation How do people usually use AI technologies to analysis unstructured data? As shown here, it's a so-called flow-based application So AI application is this is a typical example. Assuming we have we are going to Analyze a video we can create some operation streams usually called pipelines the leftmost pipeline captures the video Frames and then extracted the feature from the captured of image Here for example, we can use the VGG model a model with excellent to general generalization Capability at last that we got a major feature vectors here The middle pipeline the middle pipeline handles sound eventually it generates Audio vectors that are converted from the sound and then the rightmost pipeline automatically labels some attributes For the video. So if you have other special requirements, we can build a new pipeline to do related processing This is why flow-based AI applications are so popular because they are flexible and the developer don't even have to write code There are web-based interface to help users to Compose the new process if you have no idea how to start you can even find some useful samples But in this way it also brings As a new data challenge the data becomes very fragmented it was originally only one video but at last With the operation of the pipelines it was gradually Transforming to different data spreading different corners. So what shall we do? Let's turn to a more traditional hierarchical view so this is a application to process and structure data the Top of this layer and at the bottom of the layer. They are all unstructured later AI technologies mainly walks in these two Middle-two layers the green layer which is called the inference layer And then the blue layer Which I call it a data service layer The task of model serving Is to transform and stretch the data into feature vectors models These models are trained by serving them Efficiently is still not easy the good news is There are already some mature projects in the industry such as NVIDIA's tensor RT Intel's open vinyl Microsoft onyx RT Google TensorFlow's TFRT But there is no comprehensive solution for the data service layer at this part some people put vector in a structured database Others they some they will they might put the vectors in HDFS and is that analysis these Vector through spark. Also, you can use some in libraries So in this area, everyone make their attempts. The challenge is how to manage and analyze the vectors efficiently Although a large number of Petrine models are not available But AI technology is too difficult to go production because after the data service layer The cost is too high. So to address this challenge Our answer is to build up the unstructured data service powered by the Milvus project. It contains four parts here the first part is the Invading similarity search to serve the vectors So it includes high dimension vectors in deep learning scenarios and also it supports the sparse vectors in traditional machine learning scenario The second part is the Attributes for the all the scholar data for example a label described by structured data like streams. So combine the attributes and Vectors We can provide the capability of hybrid search or collaborative search So which means you can use the attribute filtering When you do the vector search the third part is to support multi modus as in the previous example a video has Vectors of different dimensions. There are image vectors and there are audio vectors so in the real world The multimodal search is a common requirement So then we need to introduce the concept of entity for the unstructured data and entity could contain multiple multiple vectors of different dimensions The first part is the scoring component in some scenarios like multimodal search Because we introduce different models then the fully connected the layer of different models will need to be Fused to form a new scoring mechanism for the analysis of unstructured data at present Milvers already has built up the vector analysis capability We are constantly improving and enhancing it we are currently Actually by this time by the time you see this video the Attribute filtering function should be available already And for multimodal search and scoring search they are on the roadmap in the future release we will We will put these functionality in a higher priority so eventually Milvers is not just Positioned to be a high performance vector search engine So we want to build a comprehensive infrastructure software for unstructured data service based on Milvers Okay, so maybe you have been convinced that we needed a unstructured data service But why not build it through relational database or big-data technology a Vector also looks like a number. What's the difference between a vector and a number? To be precise a vector consists of a set of numbers the difference between vector and the number I think there are two major aspects First the common operation of vectors and the numbers are different for numbers addition Substruction multiplication and the division is the most common operation But for vectors the most common operation is to calculate the similarity So you see here. I'm giving I'm giving the formula of computing your silly the distance and In the computation of vector you can see here is much higher than the normal numeric calculation Secondly the index organization of data is different So between two numbers the value can be compared with each other So we could create the number index based on the algorithm like B tree for example here But between two vectors we cannot perform the comparison We can only calculate the similarity between them so the vector index is usually based on algorithm like Approximate nearest neighbor and algorithm. So here I give to an approach clustering index clustering index and graph index because of this Significant difference the tradition database and the big-data technology are Difficult to meet the requirements of vector Analysis the algorithms they support the scenarios they target are all different So that's why we try to build the Milvus project to serve the unstructured later the invading vectors So here is the picture picture of Milvus. I want to highlight four parts The first major part is the support of the Hydrogen is computing so I mentioned earlier our company is developing data soft sign software based on hydrogen is computing So we have experience in this area. The team has Experts in the CUDA programming and the SIM programming So during Milvus design we sought about how to support different computing resources So that we could accelerate such computation in cancer scenario The heterogeneous computing resources supporting Milvus including for example the SSC instruction site for x86 many AVX 2 AVX 512 and also NVIDIA GPU ARM Processor, but it requires 64-bit processor and also we are working with our partner to port Milvus into risk 5 Processor, but in your very early stage The second part is the data management function We want to provide the unstructured data service. So the function of data management is critical Milvus supports data partition data sharding deletion of vectors and also stream injection And then the third is the adoption and improvement of the AI and algorithm libraries the capability of vector search is the fundamental function in unstructured data service. So Milvus can provide a good vector search performance that By adopting and improving the well-known AI and algorithm libraries like Flay, Sonoy the first part is support for application development environment to enable AI developers to build the application some Milvus we provide several application development environments like a Python, C++, Java, Algo, REST API, etc Also Milvus is a server more complicated than the algorithm library But people are very curious about the performance comparison since performance impacts the hardware cost and they want to set an expectation when they start to use Milvus So we have run through the AI and benchmark It is a set of well-known AI and benchmark tests Thanks to Martin, Eric, Alec for developing the benchmarks We focus on GitHub and run through the test on Milvus in several different public cloud environments like AWS, Azure, Adirin, and we also run the test on our local machines Here I only captured one chart of Milvus performance The benchmark tests generate a bunch of reports, so you can find the details on our website Milvus.io Since the original AI and benchmarks only use one CPU core during the test We have made some modification so that Milvus could use all the 16 CPU cores in this example So here you can see one million one million vectors Milvus can reach almost 2000 QPS on a single machine, on a single cloud machine With 16 CPU cores So in order to boost the performance of AI and search We have spent effort tuning the algorithm, finding the best parameters, and also utilizing the model hardware So here I will show one example about How we utilizing AVX512 instruction set to accelerate AI and search The paradox in ANS is search less time and the memory consumption Usually faster ANS algorithm like graph type index They will consume more memory, which means they will have challenges when we have a large data set to do with So to strengthen memory footprint We will typically have to use certain kind of compression and encoding techniques But it will introduce more computing workload, which means it will be slower so In this example, we compare the IVF flat index and the IVF SQ8 SQ stands for Scala Quantization is a kind of compression So you can see When using the AVX2 instruction set the index with compression is slower than the index with no compression So you have to you have to make the trade-off you want a faster speed or you want a small memory footprint So usually IVF SQ8 only takes around one-third of memory consumption than the IVF flat index So We now we added the AVX512 support So you can see here with the AVX512 instruction set we get very obvious performance Improvement on both index with compression or without compression, but especially for the index with compression like IVF SQ8 The AVX512 improvement is much more than the Index with without compression because the index with compression they will incur more CPU workload. So it will be significantly improved and Now you can see With much smaller memory footprint the IVF SQ8 index also Get a very good performance compared to the index without compression especially if you wanted to do this Badge query like we get a 100 query Request together to compute to do the search you'll get a very significant significant improvement in this scenario so Now new list could help user to achieve faster search with lower memory consumption so In this test we are using new bus 0.10.3 It's running on Ubuntu We tested this two-way Intel server, it's Intel plan 2 a 163 The data set is a 100 million vectors It's tracked it from the SIP 1 billion Okay So yeah, that's why heterogeneous computing is so powerful in AI applications Now, let's take a look on how Milvers manages embedding data The current release of Milvers. We are working on is 0.11 So in this release, we will change the way how Milvers loads the data into the memory Here is the behavior before 0.11 Once the size of the data file exceeds the threshold of index file size parameter Milvers will trigger the index building process for this new file slides The index file shown here is an IVF index. It consists of two parts The first part is the collection of centrite that The number of centrite is defined by the index parameter a list Every centrite has two pointers which point to the beginning and the end of each inverted list So the second part is the index entries, which also is the inverted list to improve the IO performance. We increase the data locality here So Vector in the same inverted list are stored closely in this box So Milvers loads the data index file into the memory with the same structure as it is on this Now This is how it will work in 0.11 for the IVF index without compression For example, the IVF flat index Since we will add the attribute support in 0.11 now for each embedding There could be multiple files Including the file for vector The file for vectors data and in the files for attributes Each attribute will have its own data file So this data file is only for one attribute. So we can define up to 64 attributes for an embedding These files are aligned through the offset So once the size of the data file exceeds the threshold of index file size Milvers will trigger the index building process for this new file And an index file is still consists of two parts First is the centroid information Second is the offset of the vectors instead of the vector data before so you can see here We only store the offset When Milvers loads the data file Into memory now The memory data structure will be split into the Index part and the data part The index part contains the centroid from the index file The data part It holds the actual vector information So you can see here Milvers will reorder Milvers will reorder the data in memory to improve the IO performance. So originally it's The sequence of vector in the data file is Inserted time like you have one two three four, but when it loaded into the memory Milvers will reorder this Will reorder the vector sequence based on the offset here So it will have better data locality in memory since original Vector data are now cached in memory Then when we vote the Interface to retrieve the original vector data It will be much faster than before because before we didn't Cache the vector data in memory. So every time you want to get a Original value of the vector data you have to go through the file on the disk but in 0.11 it will be pretty fast and Also for the attribute files, it will be loaded into memory the same way as the vector vector data file So this is how it will work in 0.11 for the IV index IVF index with compression for example the IVF sq index and the IVF pq index so the difference is For the compressed index we will start a encoded vector data. This is the encoded vector data into the index file and in the runtime memory data structure, we won't cache the Original vector data in memory. So this part will be loaded into the memory as the index part and For the data part it will be loaded into memory and then reordered So you can see here the difference in the in-memory data structure for IVF index with compression Milvers will will will not Cache the original vector value So if you want to get the original vector data It will still have to go through the disk file. So It will be slower than the IVF index without compression in this case So you have to make your decision which one is more suitable for your scenario Okay, so This is our project journey This is how Milvers was born the initial idea of this project was October 2018 that time we were involved in a Project we needed to deliver the vector search function We try to do it in our structure database, but it didn't fit well That's why we started to think about this challenge seriously So April 2019 we released the Milvers 0.1 And we tested it in our first seed user and they prove Milvers a lot So Milvers 0.5 was the release when we were ready to open source it So now we must is an incubation project in the air for AI foundation today Milvers is the most active project from the Software development Perspective in Linux AI foundation So here is the Current status of the Milvers project we have made near six thousand commits and the 16 release and we have Hundreds of community users some of them have already put Milvers in production Milvers is a young project Less than one year. Oh, sorry almost one year Since it become open source So why did people start to build their AI applications upon Milvers? I think the most attractive benefits of Milvers are First it's easy to use and it's fast, which means lower hardware cost So developer could make a minimal viable product at a pretty low cost with Milvers So now I will show some real world use use cases Okay, the first one is an intelligent writing assistant This application is Supposed to help people to compose some kind of assy Like a year-end work summary cover letter or refer refer a letter the software vendor They first collect a bunch of corporate data after cleansing these data. They are encoding encoded with taxi and To extract the paragraph and summary then they will further encoded Encoded these corporate data with infoscent model at last We will get the vectors the invading vectors of the natural language paragraph and then they They are stored in Milvers. So when any user Submits the writing request It will go through the infoscent encoder and perform a vector search in Milvers The search results will be further transferred to a draft and Get back to the user so they can make some necessary modification and They will get a Assy pretty quick This is a very useful small tool Yeah, I tried it in my work year-end work summary The second example is a big data technology big data technology company They have collected a lot of corporate credit data including 55 million trademark images. They want to provide their members with the function about Search our company through the trademark image So they build the image search function upon the fine-tuned VGG model and Milvers Since nobody knows how many people will become their new member Just for this new AI function. So the development and the hosting cost is very sensitive So they're very happy with the performance Milvers provided. So you can see here With 55 million images they serve on a cloud GPU server The average Chirery response time is about 20 milliseconds So in the previous two example AI technology is not Creating the core value of the whole application. They are more like a value add But in this example an efficient vector search is creating the core value. This is a pharmaceutical user We first translated we first translated the mark molecule expression into One thousand twenty-four twenty-four bits string It's a binary string with only one and zero and it started in a Milvers server then the user could perform the The molecule Analysis similarity analysis including tiny model similarity to compare two molecules if they are similar and also substructure to see if they can provide just one piece of the molecule formula to see we Which molecules contain these substructure and also superstructure in another way So Previously with a spark cluster to perform these kind of analysis it will take around 14 seconds for 30 million molecules But with Milvers we can now analyze over a hundred million molecules within one second Actually 500 milliseconds on a single server. So this is almost 1,000 times faster than before Okay Now it's come to the end of my presentation Here are the useful links for the Milvers project if you want to explore the possibility of Introducing AI technology into your applications. Please think about Milvers. It will be very helpful. So we can find our documentation the benchmark reports on our Project website Milvers.io and this is our GitHub repo You can also follow us on the Twitter and we have a publication media publication with we would post our technology blog on to this say media publication And also we now enable the discussions function on GitHub So if you have any question you want to discuss you can post the question on our GitHub discussions, so Yeah, we welcome people to join the Milvers community Thank you for listening to this session


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