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Information Systems: A Management Perspective

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Chapter 4, Information and Databases

Relational Databases
Geographical Information Systems
Text databases and hypertext
Information Quality
Limits to the value of information
Models
Virtual Reality

Relational Databases
Relational Database Design: The Tasmanian Institute of Business Information Technology hosts this site on relational database design.
Geographical Information Systems
GISLinx: This site provides GIS information on a variety of issues. It contains 22 GIS related categories and over 800 links.
The Geographic Information Systems FAQ!: The US Bureau of the Census maintains this site, which provides an extensive index of frequently asked questions about GIS
Text databases and hypertext
See Understanding and using the Internet in the "other online resources" section of this web site
Introduction to HTML: This collection of pages explains how to use the different HTML document description elements, or tags and how to use these elements to write good, well designed HTML documents.
HTML - Tips and Tutorials: This section of the Mining Co. site provides HTML information, tutorials, and tricks.
Writing HTML - a tutorial for creating WWW pages: This tutorial provides enough information to enable you to construct a series of linked web pages that include formatted text, pictures, and hypertext links to other web pages on the Internet.
One-Stop Source for HTML Resources: Site maintained by Mary Sumner of Southern Illinois University.
Information Quality
Information Quality - WWW Virtual Library: This site contains informal articles and a number of references related to data quality
MIT: Total Data Quality Management Research Program: This web site contains abstracts of articles and some links.
Data Quality: This site contains a number of useful articles on data quality.
Limits to the value of information
Informing ourselves to death: This conference speech by Neil Postman argues that having more information may not solve all human problems. To the contrary.
Models
Simulation Demos from PowerSim: This provides several demos including the famous beer game developed to demonstrate that many supply chain problems result from sequences of delays in ordering systems.
Business forecasting: Fred Collopy of Case Western Reserve University maintains this site, which provides useful FAQ about forecasting models plus links to related sites.
Principles of Forecasting: J. Scott Armstrong of Wharton maintains this site, which reviews of the state of knowledge in the field of forecasting
Virtual Reality
Human Interface Technology Lab: This site from the University of Washington contains an extensive collection of links related to virtual reality.
Open Virtual Reality Testbed Home Page: The National Institute of Standards and Technology maintains this site, which contains current research projects, demonstrations, and further resources.
Hot Virtual Reality Sites: This site contains numerous VR links organized by: Academia, Commercial, Cyberspace, and Government.
Clemson University's Virtual Reality Project: This Clemson University site reflects current work on virtual reality.

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