Principles of Data Management (eBook)

Keith Gordon has spent over 50 years in technical, education and training environments as an engineer, computer consultant, business analyst, education and training manager. He was an independent consultant and lecturer specialising in data management and business analysis and an associate lecturer with the Open University for 10 years.

Part 1: Preliminaries
Chapter 1 Data and the enterprise
Chapter 2 Databases and their development
Chapter 3 What is data management?

Part 2: Data Administration
Chapter 4 Corporate data modelling
Chapter 5 Data definition and naming
Chapter 6 Metadata
Chapter 7 Data quality
Chapter 8 Data accessibility
Chapter 9 Master data management

Part 3: Database and Repository Administration
Chapter 10 Database administration
Chapter 11 Repository administration

Part 4: The Data Management Environment
Chapter 12 The use of packaged application software
Chapter 13 Distributed data and databases
Chapter 14 Business intelligence
Chapter 15 Object orientation
Chapter 16 Multimedia
Chapter 17 Integrating data and web technology
Chapter 18 Linked data
Chapter 19 Concept systems
Chapter 20 Big data and artificial intelligence

Appendices
Appendix A Comparison of data modelling notations
Appendix B Generic data models
Appendix C HTML and XML
Appendix D Techniques and skills for data management
Appendix E Data strategy
Appendix F International standards for data management
Appendix G The BCS Data Management Essentials syllabus