Shifting the Information Paradigm from Data-Centered to User-Centered.

Watters, Carolyn; Shepherd, Michael A.

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ERIC Number: EJ485223

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Publication Date: 1994

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Shifting the Information Paradigm from Data-Centered to User-Centered.

Watters, Carolyn; Shepherd, Michael A.

Information Processing and Management, v30 n4 p455-71 Jul-Aug 1994

Discusses the shift of information access from a data-centered to a user-centered model and describes the Daltext system, a prototype user-centered information system that allows the user to determine how the data will be viewed (i.e., within a datastream model, a set model, a relational model, and/or a hierarchical model). (Contains 30 references.) (JLB)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Processing, Database Design, Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Models, User Needs (Information), Users (Information)

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Language: English

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