Talk:Larry Ellison/@comment-5592318-20121007130746

Application to IT or ITC professionals:
Information science is a very crucial tool for IT and ICT professionals because it concerns everything from analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage and retrieval of information. With the digital world that we live in everything is being cataloged and lumped into massive computer databases. We are even seeing things like text books and all original text being transformed into digital formats. Database design is the most important knowledge that an IT or ICT professional should understand because soon everything is going to be cataloged and sorted onto computers. With databases and information science almost working hand-and-hand you could even say that the process and concept of what databases are used for is a direct correlation to information science and “Kuhlthau's ISP Model”(wikipedia). You have to figure out what you need to design the database for such as say cataloging text books for an online store then you must explore what information should be used to catalog the books such as by title, course or even selective majors that might coincide with the text. Once you have your information you have to formulate a database so you can log and sort all the text books into the right groups making it easy to find and reference. You can even now add any additional information and it will be sorted into the database with ease. Databases are a crucial tool for IT and ICT professionals and becoming the most useful tool for helping information scientists sort, analyze, classify, store and retrieve data. Information Search Process (2012, September 28). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:34, September 28, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Search_Process