(Reference: Chapter 2 IPT Preliminary Text Book) Unit Outline In order to understand and build information systems, information processes must be understood. This topic examines each of the information processes by focusing on some of the tools used to carry them out. The tools include information technology and non-computer procedures. In this topic, tools are categorised and presented according to a particular information process. In reality, however, one tool may overlap several processes. One tool cannot operate in isolation; therefore, demonstrations of particular tools will involve additional tools and processes. Information processes and tools affect participants within the information system and people beyond it, giving rise to social and ethical issues. Additional tools for specific types of information systems will be examined in the HSC courseGlossary of Terms: collecting, hardware, software, literature searches, form design, bias,
copyright, acknowledgment, privacy, ergonomic issues, organising, text,
digitising, hypermedia, World Wide Web, redundant data, database, analysing,
primary and secondary storage, modelling/simulations, what-if scenarios, file
comparison, storing and retrieving, backup and recovery, random or sequential
access, volatile or non-volatile, permanent or non-permanent, hardware
interface software, file management software, database management systems,
Internet browser, encryption/password protection, centrally or distributed data,
microfiche, data matching, RAM, CPU, buses, modulation and demodulation, LAN,
WAN, E-Mail, net-etiquette |
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