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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Introduction Database systems are computerized systems for managing large amounts of data. Their principal function is to process requests from users to retrieve or alter the data they store. Traditionally, such requests must be expressed in a formal query language. Requests that are well defined are performed promptly; other requests are declined. Processing requests for information is also a ...

Geographic Information Science ( GIS )

Figure 5: Data modeling from the real world to a database, and from there to digital cartographic models and analogue products for visualization.. Figure 20: Sample (a) region, (b) its binary array, (c) its maximal blocks, and (d) the corresponding quadtree (after SAMET 1990a). IX he first textbook on GIS was published in 1986. Today, we can find dozens of books dealing with GIS. Yet, it is dif...

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

مطالعه تطبیقی مقالات فناوری اطلاعات دایره المعارف کتابداری و اطلاع رسانی (فارسی) با دایره المعارف علم کتابداری و اطلاع رسانی (encyclopedia of library & information science)

یکی از پرمراجعه ترین منابع مرجع دایره المعارف ها هستند. اگرچه دایره المعارف نویسی به معنای امروزی آن از قرن هجدهم آغاز شد ولی در حوزه کتابداری و اطلاع رسانی دایره المعارف نویسی قدمت چندانی ندارد. دایره المعارف کتابداری و اطلاع رسانی که جلد اول آن در سال 1381 توسط سازمان اسناد و کتابخانه ملی ایران منتشر شد اولین دایره المعارف تخصصی در این حوزه در ایران است. این اثر دارای 757 مقاله است که 24 عنوا...

Leveraging the Science of Geographic Information Systems

The Center for Geographic Information Science (CGISc) at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) was established in the Summer of 2006. CGISc is an educational research entity that relies on the use of GIS and the science of geographic information to conduct research on human and natural phenomena distributed on the Earth’s surface. CGISc welcomes interdisciplinary collaboration, and...