Geoscience after IT Part H. Familiarization with managing the information base
The geoscience record stores information for later reuse. The management of bibliographic, cartographic and quantitative information have different backgrounds. All involve: deciding what to keep; structuring the record so that information can be found when needed; maintaining search tools, indexes and abstracts; defining the content by reference to metadata. The current approaches to managing the literature, spatial information and quantitative data may be subsumed in a more comprehensive object-oriented model of the information base. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
search metadata information management disposal object-oriented methods