Diane Rasmussen Pennington | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

This textbook, the first in the Computing for Information Professionals series provides a hands-on and appropriately technical introduction to data and databases for information professionals and students of library and information science (LIS).
The book is structured in three parts, Part I: Introduction to Databases and Data provides a holistic look at where data exists in the library setting and examines how to determine and communicate database needs prior to implementation. Part II: Structured Data and Databases provides guidance on creating, implementing and working with relational databases and Part III: The New Generation of Data and Databases investigates the rapidly growing topics of interest in today’s libraries including linked data, unstructured data and big data.
The key chapters include:



The data in your library
Understanding your data
Communicating your data
Structured data and relational databases
Creating relational databases
Maintaining relational databases
Interfacing with relational databases
Semi-structured data
Unstructured and “big” data
Linked data
The future of data and databases.

This book will be useful for librarians and information professionals, as well as professionals working in museums, archives, records management, or within any other organisation that has data to manage. It will also be a key textbook for LIS students.