Unit 051 - Information Organization and Data Structure

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1. Definitions and Terminology

1.1 Data and information

1.2 Geographic data and geographic information

1.3 The information domain

1.4 the data-oriented approach to information systems

2. Information Organization

2.1 The data perspective of information organization

2.1.1 Informaiton organization and descriptive data

2.1.2 Information organization and graphical data

2.2 The relationship perspective of information organization

2.2.1 Categorical relationships

2.2.2 Spatial relationships

2.3 The operating system perspective of information organization

2.4. The application architecture perspective of information organization

3. Data structure

3.1 Levels of data abstraction

3.2 Descriptive data structures

3.2.1 Relational data structure

3.2.2 Object-oriented data structure

3.3 Graphical data structures

3.3.1 Raster data structure

3.3.2 Vector data structure

3.4 The georelational data structure

4. Data modeling

4.1 Conceptual data modeling

4.2 Logical data modeling

4.3 Physical data modeling

5. Process modeling

7. Exam and study questions

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