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Download full textVerhoeven, B.; Duval, E.; Olivie, H. – 1999
This paper discusses a generic query tool that enables an end user to query a metadata store through filters that impose search criteria on attributes. The Metadata Query Tool (MQT) is generic in the sense that it dynamically creates its user interface, based on configuration files that define the metadata scheme and the query functionalities.…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Databases
Thibeault, Nancy E. – 1997
This paper evaluates four tools for creating World Wide Web pages that interface with Microsoft Access databases: DB Gateway, Internet Database Assistant (IDBA), Microsoft Internet Database Connector (IDC), and Cold Fusion. The system requirements and features of each tool are discussed. A sample application, "The Virtual Help Desk"…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer System Design, Databases, Design Requirements
Turoff, Murray; And Others – 1988
Since the early 1980s the evolution of computer mediated communications (CMC) systems designed to support collaborative work has been characterized by two trends. One is the proliferation of new systems to take advantage of technological changes; the second is the incorporation of functionality into highly specialized or tailored application…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Databases, Electronic Mail
Willemssen, Joel C. – 1997
This testimony is an evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education's progress in integrating its National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) with other student financial aid systems, as required by law. NSLDS was authorized under the 1986 Higher Education Act amendments as a means to improve compliance with repayment and loan-limitation provisions,…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Computer System Design, Computers, Cost Effectiveness
Lutz, Richard; Greene, Stephan – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Suggests that known sources of name variation and error in information systems must be addressed through improved retrieval techniques. Argues that a culture of data stewardship in which fewer errors are introduced in the handling of personal names can be achieved through greater awareness of problems specific to handling of names, and the design…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Databases, Design Requirements, Information Retrieval
Romeo, Sheryl; Lampkin, Linda; Twombly, Eric – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
The Nonprofit Program Classification System being developed by the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) provides a way to enrich the information available on nonprofits and utilize the newly available NCCS/PRI National Nonprofit Organization database from the IRS Forms 990 filed annually by charities. It provides a method to organize…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Computer System Design, Databases
Harvey, Francis A. – 1988
This paper describes the evolution and development of an intelligent information system, i.e., a knowledge base for steel structures being undertaken as part of the Technical Information Center for Steel Structures at Lehigh University's Center of Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS). The initial development of the Technical…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Database Management Systems, Databases, Engineering
Bressler, Stacey – Learning Tomorrow. Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
This report describes "AppleLink," a communications system used by Apple employees, which combines an electronic mail system, bulletin boards, and databases. The development of AppleLink from the pilot project stage is described, and the basic functions and features of the system are detailed. Suggestions are made for the use of a…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Databases, Electronic Mail
Snyder, Robin – Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 2004
XML, Extensible Markup Language, is important as a way to represent and encapsulate the structure of underlying data in a portable way that supports data exchange regardless of the physical storage of the data. This paper (and session) introduces some useful and practical aspects of XML technology for sharing information in a educational setting…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Information Systems, Computer System Design
Cook, Peter – Learning Tomorrow: Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
This paper describes the Grolier Publishing Company's development of its encyclopedic text database by editing the machine-readable data files from which the Academic American Encyclopedia was printed, and its longer-term objective of creating a multimedia encyclopedia when the technology for a viable delivery system becomes available. Topics…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Databases, Encyclopedias, Futures (of Society)
Levine, Emil – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1997
Discusses the developers/development, maintainers, and users of the digital collection on peaceful uses of nuclear energy, produced by the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Sensitive to users in both developing and highly developed countries, this system provides closer linkage…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Databases, Information Services, Information Sources
Kriz, Harry M. – 1992
This paper describes the techniques for implementing a full-screen, custom SPIRES interface for a public-use library database. The database-independent protocol that controls the system is described in detail. Source code for an entire working application using this interface is included. The protocol, with less than 170 lines of procedural code,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, Computer System Design, Database Management Systems
Frischer, Bernard – Learning Tomorrow: Journal of the Apple Education Advisory Council, 1986
This paper focuses on a short term plan for a computerized multimedia expert system in the field of the classics that is under development at the University of California at Los Angeles. Noting both increased enrollments in classics courses and the problems associated with finding textbooks for courses in ancient civilizations that cover a variety…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Classical Languages, College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Phillips, Lori – 1997
This study, conducted at the University of Wyoming (UW), illustrates the complexity involved in making reasonable decisions about which electronic products to make available in the library. UW is a member of the CARL Alliance, and utilizes the CARL integrated online system which includes an OPAC, circulation, serials control, bibliographic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer System Design, Databases
Beam, Paul; Huntley, Frank – 1987
This paper describes the characteristics of lexicographic software programs used in a module on Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," a major component of a course on computer-assisted learning (CAL) at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Two of the databases are specific to that school and are small, individualized, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computer System Design, Databases
