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Samia Shafique – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Shoeprints are a common type of evidence found at crime scenes and are regularly used in forensic investigations. However, their utility is limited by the lack of reference footwear databases that cover the large and growing number of distinct shoe models. Additionally, existing methods for matching crime-scene shoeprints to reference databases…
Descriptors: Crime, Court Litigation, Database Design, Database Management Systems
Arendt, Julie; Wagner, Cassie – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2010
Web site usage statistics are a widely used tool for Web site development, but libraries are still learning how to use them successfully. This case study summarizes how Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale implemented Google Analytics on its Web site and used the reports to inform a site redesign. As the main campus library at…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Web Sites, Research Universities
Song, Sang Chul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An unprecedented amount of information encompassing almost every facet of human activities across the world is generated daily in the form of zeros and ones, and that is often the only form in which such information is recorded. A good fraction of this information needs to be preserved for periods of time ranging from a few years to centuries.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Sources, Indexing, Access to Information

Agosti, Maristella; Spilotro, Franco – Information Services and Use, 1986
Presents an operational definition of personal information retrieval systems and describes design principles of current applications and existing systems, current trends, and research guidelines for general design principles. (4 references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Information Retrieval, Information Technology, Microcomputers

Logan, Andrew – Information Services and Use, 1991
Examines why the "paperless office" has failed to materialize despite the availability of appropriate information technology. Conceptual limits are discussed, including the continued reliance on relational database management systems; the use of free-text retrieval software is considered; and social limits are described, including access…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Database Management Systems, Databases

Anderson, Clarita S. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Describes the incorporation of textile images into the University of Maryland Historic Textile Database by a computer user rather than a computer expert. Selection of a database management system is discussed, and PICTUREPOWER, a system that integrates photographic quality images with text and numeric information in databases, is described. (three…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Database Management Systems, Databases, Higher Education
Rayward, W. Boyd – International Forum on Information and Documentation, 1997
Argues that many ideas and practices of information science, information technology, information retrieval, search strategies, information centers, fee-based information services, linked databases, database management software, scholarly communication networks, multimedia and hypertext, and information grew out of a new "discursive…
Descriptors: Database Management Systems, Databases, Hypermedia, Information Centers

Staninger, Steven W. – Government Publications Review, 1991
This evaluation of means of accessing data on the U.S. Census Bureau CD-ROM Test Disc 2 describes computer hardware configurations considered in determining the most efficient method of manipulating the data, and mentions software options. Two dBASE configurations are compared, and it is concluded that the 80386 is essential for efficient…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software Evaluation, Database Management Systems, Depository Libraries
Davis, Ken – 1989
Hypertext can bring much to the teaching of writing. Specifically, it combines the product and process approaches to writing. What can be taught about writing, by teachers and textbooks, is what cannot be learned from reading written products. What can and must be taught is the process by which those products were produced. Because hypertext is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Database Management Systems, Educational Technology, Futures (of Society)
Davis, Ken – 1989
Writing teachers have a potential role in the development of a better hypertext. Hypertext can be defined as writing designed to be read--and perhaps added to--along many different paths, at the reader's choice. What the computer does for hypertext is increase greatly the speed and potential number of the links between chapters or ideas. What…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Database Management Systems, Educational Technology, Futures (of Society)
Zhao, Zhengmai; Hu, Jian – 1996
This paper presents an information retrieval system for delivering educational visual materials through the World Wide Web. The system is designed to meet the following user requirements: lecturers prefer direct control over their visual resources; lecturers demand a browser-based interface that will allow them to create and modify their online…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Architectural Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers