The Tech World's Newest Catalog - IMS Catalog

Project and Program: Information Management, Information Management Systems

Tags: Proceedings, 2016, SHARE in San Antonio 2016

The database catalog of a database instance consists of metadata in which definitions of database objects such as base tables; views (virtual tables); synonyms; value ranges; indexes; users; and user groups are stored." (Wikipedia)  Metadata is "data about data". (Merriam-Webster)  "Metadata was traditionally in the card catalogs of libraries. As information has become increasingly digital; metadata are also used to describe digital data using metadata standards specific to a particular discipline. By describing the contents and context of data files; the usefulness of the original data/files is greatly increased." (Wikipedia)
"The main purpose of metadata is to facilitate in the discovery of relevant information; more often classified as resource discovery. Metadata also helps organize electronic resources; provide digital identification; and helps support archiving and preservation of the resource. Metadata assists in resource discovery by 'allowing resources to be found by relevant criteria; identifying resources; bringing similar resources together; distinguishing dissimilar resources; and giving location information.' (NISO Press) " (Wikipedia)


IMS now has database catalog that meets all of these definitions.  This session will show you how IMS does this.-Nancy Stein-IBM Corporation

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