Information Systems and Networks. Eleventh Annual Symposium, March 27-29, 1974 (Book Review)
Douglas K. Ferguson · College & Research Libraries · 1976
If you like Irish stew this book is for you.Hidden behind a vague title is a symposium on on-line intera.ctive data base services.The Data: Base• Industry, or rriore accurately.the Data Base Complex, embraces activities ranging from creating data bases to providing data base • services to end-users.It faces is~ues of design, economics, organization, and us~r requirements, and hardware-software-telecommunication arrangements.The actors in the data base drama are: organizations that create and often publish data bases; • organizations that produce machine-readable versions of data bases;