Database

Definition and stakes

Odd De Presno,  The Online World

“ This private database therefore contains more relevant information per kilobyte than the online databases I'm using. Searching the data often gives enough good hits to keep me from going online for more.
| I repeat: You will often get better results when searching your | | own subset of selected online databases, than by going online | | to get information. It is usually easier and faster. |
On the other hand, your in-house database will never be fully up- to-date. Too many things happen all the time. Also, the search terms used for your daily intake of news will never cover all future needs.
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Source: Gutenberg

Mohamed Helmy; Alexander Crits-Christoph; Gary D. Bader,  Ten Simple Rules for Developing Public Biological Databases…

“ The strongest reason to create a new database is scientific demand for a type of data not easily available in a computable form anywhere else. It is most useful to have all data of a single type in one easy-to-search location, so, ideally, everyone interested in collecting data about a specific topic should collaborate to create one resource, or at least should coordinate efforts to reduce duplication of work (Fig 1) . Either way, the data content and software features you create will have the greatest impact if they are original and useful ”
Source: Wikisource

Portrait of Jean Armour Polly Jean Armour Polly,  Surfing the Internet: An Introduction

“ For example, to search of the databases for lists on "cats" you would send the following statements (copy them exactly into your mail message to the LISTSERV) :
//DBlook JOB Echo=No
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD *
Select cats in lists
index
Select cats in intgroup
index
Select cats in new-list
index
These statements search the global LISTSERV list of lists ("in lists") , and the local copy of the SRI-NIC Interest Groups ("in intgroup") , and the archives of the "new-list" list ("in new-list") . Send LISTSERV the command INFO DATABASE for more information.
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Source: Gutenberg

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