We are poised at a major turning point in the history of information management via computers. Recent evolutions in computing, communications, and commerce are fundamentally reshaping the ways in which we humans interact with information, and generating enormous volumes of electronic data along the way. As a result of these forces, what will data management technologies, and their supporting software and system architectures, look like in ten years? It is difficult to say, but we can see the future taking shape now in a new generation of information access platforms that combine strategies and structures of two familiar – and previously quite distinct – technologies, search engines and databases, and in a new model for software applications, the Search-Based Application (SBA), which offers a pragmatic way to solve both well-known and emerging information management challenges as of now. Search engines are the world's most familiar and widely deployed information access tool, used by hundreds of millions of people every day to locate information on the Web, but few are aware they can now also be used to provide precise, multidimensional information access and analysis that is hard to distinguish from current database applications, yet endowed with the usability and massive scalability of Web search. In this book, we hope to introduce Search Based Applications to a wider audience, using real case studies to show how this flexible technology can be used to intelligently aggregate large volumes of unstructured data (like Web pages) and structured data (like database content), and to make that data available in a highly contextual, quasi real-time manner to a wide base of users for a varied range of purposes. We also hope to shed light on the general convergences underway in search and database disciplines, convergences that make SBAs possible, and which serve as harbingers of information management paradigms and technologies to come.
Table of Contents: Search Based Applications / Evolving Business Information Access Needs / Origins and Histories / Data Models and Storage / Data Collection/Population / Data Processing / Data Retrieval / Data Security, Usability, Performance, Cost / Summary Evolutions and Convergences / SBA Platforms / SBA Uses and Preconditions / Anatomy of a Search Based Application / Case Study: GEFCO / Case Study: Urbanizer / Case Study: National Postal Agency / Future Directions
We are well into a second age of digital information. Our information is moving from the desktop to the laptop to the «palmtop» and up into an amorphous cloud on the Web. How can one manage both the challenges and opportunities of this new world of digital information? What does the future hold? This book provides an important update on the rapidly expanding field of personal information management (PIM). Part I (Always and Forever) introduces the essentials of PIM. Information is personal for many reasons. It's the information on our hard drives we couldn't bear to lose. It's the information about us that we don't want to share. It's the distracting information demanding our attention even as we try to do something else. It's the information we don't know about but need to. Through PIM, we control personal information. We integrate information into our lives in useful ways. We make it «ours.» With basics established, Part I proceeds to explore a critical interplay between personal information «always» at hand through mobile devices and «forever» on the Web. How does information stay «ours» in such a world?
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Книга «Садовые растения от А до Я» по объему информации может заменить собою библиотеку. В ней описаны виды и современные сорта многолетников, двулетников, летников, кустарников, роз, луковичных, вьющихся растений, пригодных для выращивания в садах средней полосы России. Достоинство книги – ясные и краткие ответы на вопросы «как?» Как выбрать растения, подходящие к микроклимату и дизайну вашего участка? Как ухаживать за цветами, чтобы они постоянно сохраняли декоративность? Как размножить то или иное растение? Как защитить его от болезней и вредителей? На эти вопросы отвечает лауреат Государственной премии, профессор, доктор сельскохозяйственных наук В. В. Воронцов. В основе его советов – сочетание уникального личного опыта и знания современных научных достижений.