Information resources ... I think that now it is difficult to meet someone who had never faced to with the concept.
After thinking logically, be sure to come to the conclusion that the development of any society is impossible without the presence of different kinds of resources: energy, tools, material, and finally information.
We live in a time that can be described as unprecedented step of increasing the flow of information.This growth is carried out in several areas, the most popular of which are economic and social.
information has been and remains one of the key factors that determines the development of technologies and resources in general.Under
information, in turn, should be understood set of information about objects or phenomena that surround us in the everyday world, and the condition of their properties.
Section 1. Information resources.Definition
Information resources are as ordinary documents and meeting documents.Recent placed in public or private archives, libraries, foundations, museums, depositories, banks and data bases.
We, of course, remember that until the end of the last century, all kinds of information resources were only material, quite tangible objects.For example, the book and the press were the most common ones.Now times have changed and most prefer to keep the information on the so-called electronic or digital media.
general, it should be noted that the term, which in this article under discussion involves a kind of scientific paradox.What is it?
thing is that even though it is one of the most important in dealing with issues related to the information society at the moment no one will give a precise definition of this concept.And if we turn to scientists for an explanation, it is likely to get a response, so in fact it is sometimes, and this definition is still simply to be finalized.
Then it is unclear in what form is accepted among experts to provide knowledge and data.After wandering in the realm of cyberspace, I found the answer - through the understanding of the very essence of an information resource, and perform their roles in various social processes, directly through the laws of their transformation, creation and distribution.
Section 2. Electronic information resources.Their consumers
Today to distinguish between active and passive information resources.Under active understands that part of that is available for automated search, as well as for storage and processing.It is stored on the computers in the form of specially designed programs and is primarily text and graphical documents.Incidentally, many of the information resources can be made available to users only on a commercial basis.
If we talk about the main participants of the market, then they certainly are:
- users (you and I);
- sellers of information (publishers, bookstores, the owners of Internet resources, and so on. D.);
- data producers (authors, editors, journalists, artists and musicians, they also carry out and manage information resources).
In today's world, the most common means of accessing information considered, of course, computer networks, and the majority of users receives the information is online.
In addition, this market can be divided into the following segments:
- computerized systems for reservation;
- information services dealing with financial matters;
- database, designed for professionals and for the mass consumer.
Databases, which are a kind of virtual books can be in turn divided into five types:
- boards;
- multimedia;
- specialized software;
- tabular and numerical;
- text.
Finally, would like to note that both national and international information resources are significant in economic terms, as well as one of the most important indicators of public information culture.
