#31627
MD:Notes: Designing an Information System for Public Hospitals 
By its very nature, an EMR (electronic medical record) is not subject to the physical limitations of a paper chart. Many clinics can access a patient’s EMR at once. EMRs are never in transit or waiting to be filed. For these reasons, using all-electronic records would greatly alleviate the problem of missing charts, and result in more efficient patient care.
Ahern, Katherine, Zachary Gillen and Jill Blue Lin. University of California Berkeley (2008). Articles>Information Design>Biomedical
#29995
The Meaning of Knowledge Management
We hear the term knowledge management bandied about. It sounds suspiciously like a trendy new phrase for what we used to call 'documentation.' In truth, knowledge management is more than documentation. It encompasses documentation, data management, library management, and information design. Knowledge management is increasingly important; as the amount of content has increased, the task of locating the information in the content has become more difficult. You see, information is different from content. And knowledge is something that derives from information.
HyperWrite (2004). Articles>Knowledge Management>Information Design>Content Management
#28925
Measuring the Success Of a Classification System
When working with government and large private organizations on complex information systems, project managers and business representatives often demand early-stage validation that the proposed classification system provides the user-friendly solution they are charged with delivering. They also require this validation in a format that will be engaging for senior business stakeholders.
Barker, Iain. Boxes and Arrows (2007). Articles>Information Design>Taxonomy>User Centered Design
#26199
Merging XML Files: A New Approach Providing Intelligent Merge of XML Data Sets
As XML becomes ubiquitous so the need for powerful tools to manipulate XML data becomes more pressing. Merging XML is particularly tricky, but often necessary to consolidate data feeds from heterogeneous systems, or to synchronize submissions of XML fragments which make up a larger document. An automated mechanism for defining and controlling such merges has been developed and is demonstrated to provide a consistent, adaptable and resilient solution to this problem. Integration into an information pipeline allows limitless customization.
La Fontaine, Robin. DeltaXML.com (2001). Articles>Information Design>XML>Collaboration
#25705
Many classification systems suffer from an inflexible top-down approach, forcing users to view the world in potentially unfamiliar ways.
Merholz, Peter. Adaptive Path (2004). Articles>Information Design>Metadata
#18309
This article provides an overview of work completed at Tsinghua University Library in which a metadata framework was developed to aid in the preservation of digital resources. The metadata framework is used for the creation of metadata to describe resources, and includes an encoding standard used to store metadata and resource structures in information systems. The author points out that the Tsinghua University Library metadata framework provides a successful digital preservation solution that may be an appropriate solution for other organizations as well.
Niu, Jinfang. D-Lib Magazine (2002). Articles>Information Design>Web Design>Metadata
#22393
Metadata Generation: Processes, People and Tools
Metadata generation is the act of creating or producing metadata. Generating good quality metadata in an efficient manner is essential for organizing and making accessible the growing number of rich resources available on the Web. The success of digital libraries, the sustenance of interoperability – as promoted by the Open Archives Initiative – and the evolution of Semantic Web all rely on efficient metadata generation. This article sketches a metadata generation framework that involves processes, people and tools. It also presents selected research initiatives and highlights the goals of the Metadata Generation Research Project.
Greenberg, Jane. ASIST (2002). Articles>Information Design>Metadata
#28574
Metadata from the world of librarians and database searching is moving to center stage in our everyday lives. And the metadata 'revolution' is coming to us through pictures--those cute, happy, funny shots of kids, parents, neighbors and workmates that we love to share and post on the internet.
Brown, Fred. International Journal for Technical Communication (2007). Articles>Information Design>Metadata
#26792
Libraries must increasingly accommodate bibliographic records encoded with a variety of standards and emerging standards, including Dublin Core, MODS, and VRA Core. The problem is that many libraries still rely solely on MARC and AACR2. Meanwhile, the world of information is passing us by. How important is this problem? There are now literally millions of useful online items that lack MARC cataloging and will likely never be cataloged in MARC. We ignore these resources at our peril. Our users will justifiably seek assistance elsewhere, as many already have. Ignoring the problem will only make libraries increasingly marginalized. What are we to do?
Tennant, Roy. Library Journal (2004). Articles>Information Design>Metadata
#31524
What began in 1998 as the Colorado Digitization Project is now known as the Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP). The CDP’s Heritage West database represents not only the primary product of the organization, but also one of the oldest continuously operating collaborative repositories of cultural heritage metadata in the country. As a basis for the author’s forthcoming quantitative and qualitative analysis of Dublin Core metadata in Heritage West, the following article offers a history of how the CDP has, over time, organized and managed the metadata provision for its digitization projects.
Cronin, Christopher. First Monday (2008). Articles>Information Design>Metadata>Case Studies
#28207
Microformats are markup that allow expression of semantics in an HTML document. Microformats are designed for humans first and machines second, and are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted web standards.
O'Gribin, Niall. Erigena (2006). Articles>Information Design>Standards>HTML
#29447
Microsoft Access Queries with Oracle SQL Developer 1.2 Tool 
This article by Jayaram Krishnswamy shows how you can install the Oracle SQL Developer 1.2 and connect to an MS Access database. This article will cover the steps right from downloading and installing the Oracle SQL Developer, to connecting to a MS Access database, and using the SQL interface along with a few sample queries.
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. Packt (2007). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
#27249
Businesses invest a lot of money (usually more than budgeted), time, and other resources to migrate their legacy data. The reasons for making such an investment range from upgrading to the latest version of an enterprise resource plan to making old data compatible with new information systems. The success of these data migration projects depends on a number of critical factors. This article looks at a few of them.
Chatterjee, Ipsita. StickyMinds (2006). Articles>Information Design
#31816
Migrating from Microsoft SQL Server and Access to MySQL
In this article I will cover the basics of migrating an application from an Access or SQL Server database to MySQL. We'll start with various reasons why you should (or should not) migrate your existing Access or SQL Server database to MySQL, then cover the planning stages of an application migration. Next we will look at the tools and methods for migrating your actual data from Access/MSSQL to MySQL, followed by some general guidelines for modifying your client application from a Microsoft database to MySQL. Finally, we'll look at some considerations to make when deploying your new MySQL database and application.
Hillyer, Mike. MySQL (2007). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
#29929
Migrating MS Access 2003 Data using the Oracle SQL Developer 1.2
Business needs often necessitate data migration from a smaller, less secure database to a higher end, faster database server with a more reliable availability. A typical scenario is the migration of data from a desktop sized database such as MS Access or Fox Pro to any other higher end database servers such as MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 or SQL Anywhere Server. Oracle SQL Developer 1.2 with this latest version is sometimes called the Migration version as it supports migrating data from three vendors (MySQL, SQL Server and MS Access) to an Oracle database. In fact, it has been designed to migrate from more than one version of MS Access. This feature was not available in the version 1.1 of this tool.
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. Packt (2007). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
#29444
A Millennial Paradigm for Documentation: the Scroll!
Although some zealots have proposed eliminating printed information entirely in favor of online help systems, Adobe Acrobat files, and even e-books, discarding printed books may prove less effective than simply modernizing them. Scrolls are the logical successors to books.
Hart, Geoffrey J.S. Geoff-Hart.com (2001). Articles>Documentation>Information Design
#22004
La visualización de weblogs se sirve de metáforas espaciales como el mapamundi o las líneas de metro de una ciudad. Aparentemente algo tan desligado de la localización requiere de ella para establecer una referencia.
Dursteler, Juan Carlos. InfoVis (2004). (Spanish) Articles>Information Design
#25623
Misconceptions About Integrated Project Databases
The notion of an integrated project database (IPDB) has existed for decades. Over that time many projects have been undertaken to develop the technologies and frameworks required to implement an IPDB. Also over that time, there has been promotion of the benefits and impacts that IPDB systems will have on the industry. As there are still no industrially stable IPDB systems in existence, the industry's perception of what they are and what they can do has diverged from many of the original presentations. It is also clear that researchers and de-velopers involved in IPDB development have many different ideas about what constitutes an IPDB and what is, or is not, possible to create. This paper aims to describe misconceptions which are growing up around IPDB systems, and presents the authors' view of reality (informed by the opinions of the UK network of experts in ob-jects and integration (URL-1 1999) which was run by the DETR).
Amor, Robert and Ihsan Faraj. ITcon (2001). Articles>Information Design>Databases
#21369
The world of mobile phones is a jungle of technologies with few established standards that, in some ways, resembles the early days of personal computing. Here the author presents an impressionistic landscape of this world, a glimpse of the near future, and thoughts on what it might mean for IAs.
Smith, Shawn. Boxes and Arrows (2002). Articles>Information Design>Wireless Web
#28382
MobiLink Synchronization Wizard in SQL Anywhere 10
MobiLink is a technology that can help multiple databases synchronized, a key requirement for mobile access to data. The article shows you how to create a model that can be deployed to access data on a SLQ 2005 Server remotely with a SQL Anyhwhere database. A forth coming article descibes the deployment details.
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. ASP Free (2006). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
#12983
Monitoring Order: Visual Desire, the Organization of Web Pages, and Teaching the Rules of Design 
Monitoring Order looks at two potential sources -- writings about book design and writings about visual arrangement in painting -- for helping teachers of writing think about teaching visual composition for Web pages; both sources are problematic but suggest directions for further study.
Wysocki, Anne Frances. Kairos (1998). Articles>Web Design>Information Design>Visual Rhetoric
#30825
Moving a Database from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 in Three Steps
This tutorial shows how SQL Server 2005 can be migrated to SQL Server 2008 quite easily by manually detaching the database from SQL Server 2005 and attaching it to SQL Server 2008. This is a much easier process than the 'Copy Database Wizard' which has two procedures one of which is the same as the manual process but carried out under the guidance of a wizard and the other which does not require the stopping of the Source server.
Krishnaswamy, Jayaram. Packt (2008). Articles>Information Design>Databases>SQL
#31357
Moving from Information Mapping to DITA 
Is your company making the move from Information Mapping to DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)? The author compares and contrasts the two methods and shares insight on how to ease the pain of switching from one to the other.
Hughes, Michael A. Intercom (2008). Articles>Information Design>XML>DITA
#27945
This article, the first of three parts, explains what MSXML is and how to access an XML document using JavaScript.
Keogh, Jim and Ken Davidson. ASP Free (2006). Articles>Information Design>XML>Microsoft Windows
#27947
This article, the third of three parts, explains what MSXML is and how to access an XML document using JavaScript.
Keogh, Jim and Ken Davidson. ASP Free (2006). Articles>Information Design>XML>Microsoft Windows
