A collection of valuable information generated by human activities. in a broader sense, it also includes related equipment, personnel, and capital.

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A very broad term encompassing all aspects of the management and processing of information by computer, including the hardware and software required to access it.

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A governing principle, plan, or course of action concerning information resources and technology adopted by a company, organization, institution, or government.

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The information flow that involves various information processes such as: create, acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information.

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Series of steps involved in the transformation of raw data into actionable information.

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All the information contained within a business unit which is created to support day-to-day operations of the unit (sales receipt, packing slip, purchase confirmation, etc.)

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a large, regularly updated file of digitized information (bibliographic records, abstracts, full-text documents, directory entries, images, statistics, etc.) related to a specific subject or field, consisting of records of uniform format organized for ease and speed of search and retrieval and managed with the aid of database management system (dbms) software.

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A system used for reporting and data analysis, and is considered a core component of business intelligence.

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Information that either does not have a pre-defined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner.

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A computer hardware and software system designed to accept, store, manipulate, and analyze data and to report results, usually on a regular, ongoing basis.

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The practice of collecting, keeping, and using data securely, efficiently, and cost-effectively, which helps people, organizations, and connected things optimize the use of data within the bounds of policy and regulation so that they can make decisions and take actions that maximize the benefit to the organization.

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Comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis of business information.

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(in business) the collection, analysis, and assessment of information about a company's markets and competition, for use in strategic decision-making.

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A set of processes and technologies that supports the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium.

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The field of management devoted to achieving accuracy, efficiency, and economy in the systematic creation, retention, conservation, dissemination, use, and disposition of the official records of a company, government agency, organization, or institution, whether in physical or electronic form, usually undertaken by a professionally trained records manager on the basis of a comprehensive and thorough records survey.

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A number of documents (texts, images, videos, records, etc.) assembled in a single physical or virtual location by one or more persons, or by a corporate entity, and arranged in some kind of systematic order to facilitate retrieval

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Activities such as document description, indexing and classification performed in libraries, databases, archives etc.

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The process of dividing objects or concepts into logically hierarchical classes, subclasses, and sub-subclasses based on the characteristics they have in common and those that distinguish them.

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The process of creating entries for a catalog.

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A library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. the digital content may be locally held or accessed remotely via computer networks.

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An alphabetically arranged list of headings consisting of the personal names, places, and subjects treated in a written work, with page numbers to refer the reader to the point in the text at which information pertaining to the heading is found.

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The process, methods, and procedures used to selectively recall recorded information from a file of data.

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A system designed to select the informational items (texts, images, videos, etc.) that are expected to be relevant for a given searcher from a large collections of such items.

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(in information retrieval) the person or persons for whom a mediated literature search is conducted and to whom the results are delivered.

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Prolonging the existence of materials by maintaining them in a condition suitable for use, either in their original format or in a form more durable, through retention under proper environmental conditions or actions taken after a document or collection has been damaged to prevent further deterioration.

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