AGENDA

(updated 21Mar11) AGENDA: Session 8: Information storage and retrieval influences

From Syllabus: Session 8: Information storage and retrieval influences

Online: Generic and custom software, information acquisition, storage and retrieval needs.

Text: Ch. 10 (Information storage and retrieval influences)

Assignments due: All 5 application reviews due.

Miscellaneous

Where we are on developing a home page assignment
Complete Mid-Semester feedback form -- link on course homepage
Questions about Part A of assignment
When to hold debate 1

Debate 1

IT as an organizational function

Similarity to personnel and financial management

Terms: character, data, information, knowledge, intelligence,
Physical, logical, conceptual view (schema) of information

Data, Information, and Knowledge or Content Management System Tools

Data/information management
- Objectives of data management, p. 290
- Features of a DBMS, p. 295
- Terms: entity, attribute, value, database
- Data warehousing
- Data mining and artificial intelligence approaches to access data
Content management system (knowledge bases) platforms and tools
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
- Social Service Wiki http://daviswiki.org/Social_Services
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(software)
- Blogs, Forums/BBSs, etc.

Implications and Issues for assessment and system design

Important considerations in the human services, e.g., encryption, relational, user friendly form and report generators, high level query languages, distributed DBMS systems.
Systems integration (legacy systems), interoperability,
Open source, e.g., Open Office

Next week: Session 9: Networking and telecommunications influences

Online: Internet, Intranet, Web tools, developing Web applications

Text: Ch 11 (Networking & Telecommunication Influences)

Reading: Review "From data to intelligence" from session 4

Web: http://www.nrccwdt.org/xml/intro.html Review this child welfare interoperability effort using XML

Assignments due: Student homepage completed