1. Welcome

2. Digital Information Gateway (DIG) Big Button (BB) Introduction
Philadelphia/Camden HIDTA
7801 Essington Avenue, Suite A
Philadelphia, PA 19153
Jeremiah A. Daley, Director
9/12/2017
Digital Information Gateway (DIG)
Big Button (BB)
Introduction
UNCLASSIFIED / LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE

4. Information Sharing PURPOSE—
facilitating cooperation among Federal, State, local, and tribal
law enforcement agencies to share information and implement coordinated enforcement activities;
(B) enhancing law enforcement intelligence sharing
among Federal, State, local, and tribal law
enforcement agencies;
(C) providing reliable law enforcement
intelligence to law enforcement agencies
needed to design effective enforcement
strategies and operations; and
(D) supporting coordinated law
enforcement strategies which maximize
use of available resources.
PL SEC HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM.
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5. Digital Information Gateway (DIG) Overview
The Digital Information Gateway (DIG) is a tool used for searching and sharing LMAHIDTA data.
DIG provides Google-style searches for databases. It federates a single search to many different databases allowing users to search tens-of-millions of up-to-date records in seconds.
DIG securely controls what data users have access to.
LEJIS data is also available for DIG users in addition to all other current data sources. Integration is seamless.
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6. DIG Information Sharing Network
DIG servers can be securely coupled to provide analysts and investigators access to data from different agencies or organizations in different areas.
An analyst or investigator can use DIG to securely search their own data, and data provided by other agencies using a single query.
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7. LMAHIDTA DIG Server Connection Configuration (46/31 DATABASES)
Lehigh County
Pennsylvania
5 Data Sources
NJ ROIC 40 Data Sources
Transaction Record Analysis Center (TRAC)
*LEJIS
380
PA PD.
Contributors
Legend:
Dual-Directional
Uni-Directional
NY State
DCJS
11 Servers
(<200 Databases)
New Mexico HIDTA
3 Databases
* Law Enforcement Justice Information System (PA)
Prepared By: Bob Dintino /24/2018

8. BB/DIG PARTNERS

9. LEJIS Federated Law Enforcement Justice Information System Search
with Digital Information Gateway
LEJIS data is also available for DIG users in addition to all current data sources.
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10. LEJIS Police System Vendors participating = 5
Connected Law Enforcement Agencies = nearly 380
Integration with Philadelphia Police Dept.
Integration with Pittsburgh Bureau of Police
Incident Records in LEJIS index = 14.5 million
5,000 Incident Records submitted daily
1,200 Index Queries daily
LEJIS Web Interface Available through the JNET Portal to all departments across the Commonwealth
Search integrated and accessible to HIDTA thru BB/DIG

11. April 2016

12. Two Tabs with buttons Location & Person

13. Add buttons to the Query Window, click “Run”
Alternatively - Enter a Global Search string, click “Run”
(global is not the preferred search functionality in BB2.0, many built in 2.0 features might not apply when using global)
Choose the Data Sources to run the report against, click “Run”

14. My Reports tab has two layouts
Tiles
List

15. Reports have two display types
Grids
Dossier
Multiple grids/dossiers can exist; click dropdown to change

16. Example of bringing data together from two sources –
Click ‘under-the-hood’ to show details of the report and to hide/show individual data sources
Example of bringing data together from two sources –
VAI Sex Offenders(highlighted in yellow) and PA_Sex_Offenders (all other data on report)

17. Start a Quick Search anywhere from the grid
Click the “ + “ link appears (highlighted yellow)
Starting Quick Search opens the data source selection and allows a report to quickly be run without leaving the current report

18. Sample Dossier

19. VISUAL REPORT VIEW
The Visualization Report View provides an interactive visual representation of the data in the form a force directed node graph. Each node represents a data column value and the links between the nodes represent relationships between the associated data column values. Closer nodes tend represent stronger relationships.

20. INTERACTIVE MAP
The Interactive Map takes geocoded data from a Big Button report and creates an interactive map with markers representing the data. Each marker represents an element that has geographic data associated with it. Nodes with the same icon are of the same type and may also be color-coded by the administrator.

21. MAP CLUSTER VIEW
The map more readable and to improve its performance, depending on the zoom level of the map, markers are clustered into single markers. Clicking on the clusters will zoom and explode the cluster into individual markers. For details on how the currently selected Report View works

22. Questions and Discussions
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