NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Use Drives Quality: Considering Data Quality Issues in California's Pursuit of a Cradle-to-Career Data System. Policy Brief
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Moore, Colleen – Education Insights Center, 2020
The Education Insights Center produced a series of reports culminating in recommendations for the structure and governance of a preschool through higher education and into the workforce (known as a P20W data system). This brief follows up on that series, with a focus on data quality; the brief was informed by the author's experience using…
Descriptors: Governance, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Data Management Support for Faculty Facing New Funding Mandates: The Case of The U. S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Exner, Nina – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2018
Data management is a way for liaison librarians to support faculty research. American liaison librarians face new demands in data management due to expanding public access guidelines. This article gives advice for librarians new to data management, with the specific case of agriculture. For librarians supporting agriculture, the United States…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Information Management, College Faculty, Academic Libraries
Information, Information, Information
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pratt, John – Higher Education Review, 2013
According to researchers at the University of Southern California (Washington Post, 2011), the world's storage capacity for digital data increased from 0.2 billion gigabytes in 1986 to 276 billion gigabytes by 2007 (at the same time analogue storage capacity increased from 2.6 to 18.9 billion gigabytes). This huge growth is often seen in…
Descriptors: Information Storage, Information Management, Educational Research, Archives
On the Construction of Selection Systems.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Buckland, Michael; Plaunt, Christian – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Examines the structure and components of information storage and retrieval systems and information filtering systems. Identifies 13 components as representations of data objects (copies, excerpts, descriptions, abstractions, and identifying references) and functions that operate on them. Reduces the functional components to transformation and…
Descriptors: Classification, Data, Evaluation Criteria, Information Retrieval
Making Research Cyberinfrastructure a Strategic Choice
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hacker, Thomas J.; Wheeler, Bradley C. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2007
The commoditization of low-cost hardware has enabled even modest-sized laboratories and research projects to own their own "supercomputers." The authors argue that this local solution undermines rather than amplifies the research potential of scholars. CIOs, provosts, and research technologists should consider carefully an overall…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Computers, Information Technology, Technology Planning
Choosing an Optical Disc System: A Guide for Users and Resellers.
Vane-Tempest, Stewart – Information Management & Technology, 1995
Presents a guide for selecting an optional disc system. Highlights include storage hierarchy; standards; data life cycles; security; implementing an optical jukebox system; optimizing the system; performance; quality and reliability; software; cost of online versus near-line; and growing opportunities. Sidebars provide additional information on…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computer Selection, Computer System Design, Data