Data & Information

From IS Curriculum

The core knowledge units and topics within Data & Information Management are as follows:

• Database Management Systems
• Conceptual Data Modeling
  • Entity-relationship modeling
  • Semantic data modeling
  • Object-oriented data modeling: Class diagrams
  • Specific modeling grammars
  • Generic data modeling
• Logical Data Modeling
  • Hierarchical data model
  • Network data model
  • Relational model
    • Relations and Relational structures
    • Relational database design
      • Mapping conceptual schema to a relational schema
      • Normalization
      • Anomalies
• Physical Database Implementation
  • Indexing
  • Data types
• Data Retrieval and Manipulation with Database Languages
  • SQL
    • DDL
    • DML
    • DCL
  • Using XML to Represent Data
• Business Intelligence
  • Knowledge management
  • Data warehousing
  • Data mining
  • Concept maps
  • Data visualization
  • Enterprise search
• Privacy/security/compliance/policies
• Data integrity and quality
• Database environments
• Data and database administration