Foundations of Information Systems: Data and Knowledge Management

These flashcards cover key concepts related to data and knowledge management as part of the Foundations of Information Systems course, providing definitions and explanations for significant terms discussed in class.

Data Governance

A planned approach to data management that ensures data is available, transparent, and useful, aiming for a 'single version of the truth.'

Master Data Management

A strategy for implementing data governance that focuses on core data across business processes to ensure consistency and accuracy.

Transactional Data

Represents activities or events, such as payroll checks or customer invoices, stored in transaction files.

Relational Database Model

A database architecture based on two-dimensional tables with related tables containing records and fields.

Big Data

A collection of data that is so large and complex that it is difficult to manage using traditional database management systems.

Data Warehouse

A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision-makers in the organization.

Knowledge Management (KM)

A process to manipulate important knowledge that constitutes part of an organization’s memory, usually in an unstructured format.

Explicit Knowledge

Objective, rational, and technical knowledge that can be easily articulated and shared.

Tacit Knowledge

Subjective or experiential knowledge that is more difficult to quantify or express.

Data Hierarchy

The organization of data from bits to bytes to fields, records, and files, culminating in databases.