Recently organizations have begun to realize the potential value in the huge amounts of raw, constantly fluctuating data sets that they generate and, with the help of advances in storage and processing technologies, collect. This leads to the phenomenon of big data. This data may be stored in structured format in relational database systems, but…

Timely identification and reporting of rare infectious diseases has important economic, social and health implications. In this study, we investigate how different stakeholders in the existing reporting system influence the timeliness in identification and reporting of rare infectious diseases. Building on the vision of the information supply…

Universities and colleges generate extraordinary quantities of knowledge and innovation, but in many ways the academy struggles to keep pace with the digital revolution. Growing pressures are reshaping how universities must do business--students expecting enhanced access and support, administrators eager to make data-driven strategic decisions,…

This Annual Report describes in detail the work performed during the first year of Task III of Contract NSF-C414 and the present status of Task III work. The programs and achievements described constitute the first significant efforts to develop a user-oriented, cooperative program between major secondary scientific and technical information…

THE PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION OF AN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH IS REPORTED. THIS PLAN WAS BUILT UPON DETAILED SUBJECT ANALYSIS AND RETRIEVAL OF DOCUMENTS BY A NATIONAL NETWORK TERMED THE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC). AN INVESTIGATION WAS ALSO MADE OF USE OF…

THE OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) TO ASSESS THE VALUE OF VARIOUS APPROACHES TO THE IDENTIFICATION AND ACQUISITION OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH MATERIALS, (2) TO ASSESS THE VALUE OF PRESENT PROCEDURES, (3) TO PRESENT A LIST OF PERIODICALS, GROUPED ACCORDING TO ESTIMATED YEARLY YIELD SO THAT DECISIONS CAN BE MADE TO SUBSCRIBE OR TO SCAN REGULARLY, (4) TO PRESENT…

RESEARCH RESULTS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDUCATIONAL MEDIA RESEARCH INFORMATION CENTER ARE REPORTED. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED INCLUDE (1) A DESCRIPTION OF ACQUISITION PROCEDURES FOR A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF NEW-MEDIA RESEARCH, (2) DETAILS ON A PILOT USER GROUP'S PARTICIPATION IN SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND…

North Central Technical College's (NCTC's) strategic planning and human resource development model is described in this paper in terms of its role in assisting the college's service area in adapting to new technologies. First, background information is presented on NCTC's planning process with respect to the strategic goal areas of: (1)…