Re: IS components and categories

On Aug 10, 12:33 am, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> beginner16 wrote:
> > Hello
>
> > I realize that the following questions might seem totally irrelevant
> > to most of you, but I'm still hoping someone will take the time to
> > answer them.
>
> > BTW - I will use IS for information system
>
> > On one of the pages my book talks briefly about IS ( but it never
> > explains what exactly does it mean with the term - is the text
> > referring to DBs only, or to computer based systems or ...) and explains
> > that IS is made of several components. It also mentions that we divide
> > IS into several categories. Anyways:
>
> > a) What are the IS components?
> > b) Into what categories do we divide IS?
>
> You would probably have to ask the author(s) what they meant when they
> wrote that. If one uses the ISO standard vocabularies, then an
> information system necessarily can encompass more than a DB because the
> standard vocabularies treat data as only that subset of information
> suitably represented for machine processing.
>
> Hence, a physical books and shelves library can be or can be part of an
> information system.

Well, the author most probably mean Is in the more general sense of a word, so... Received on Fri Aug 10 2007 - 00:35:25 CEST