Information management

Jurgens Pieterse (South Africa)
Vocabulary used in information management
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  1. architecture
    the organization of a computer's hardware or software
  2. data
    a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
  3. database
    an organized body of related information
  4. database management system
    a software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database
  5. deductive
    involving inferences from general principles
  6. domain
    the content of a particular field of knowledge
  7. framework
    the underlying structure
  8. inductive
    proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion
  9. information
    knowledge acquired through study or experience
  10. information age
    a period beginning in the last quarter of the 20th century when information became easily accessible through publications and through the manipulation of information by computers and computer networks
  11. integration
    the act of combining into a whole
  12. interoperability
    the ability to exchange and use information
  13. knowledge
    the result of perception, learning, and reasoning
  14. metadata
    data about data
  15. ontology
    organization of a knowledge domain and all relevant entities
  16. real-time
    of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate they receive information
  17. requirement
    something that is needed in advance
  18. semantic
    of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning
  19. semantics
    the study of language meaning
  20. syntax
    the study of the rules for forming admissible sentences
  21. taxonomy
    study of the general principles of scientific classification
  22. user interface
    (computer science) a program that controls a display for the user (usually on a computer monitor) and that allows the user to interact with the system
Created on Thu Dec 27 06:28:32 EST 2012 (updated Tue Feb 05 07:26:44 EST 2013)

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