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Module details
CO321 Introduction to Information Systems (15 credits)
Syllabus
- Introduction to information systems through examples.
- Ways of characterising information systems, via functionality, level etc.
- What is an information system? The relationships between information systems, people, organisations, and their environment.
- Communicating information between people, between machines and between people and machines.
- Data and information.
- Syntax and semantics.
- Information presentation and delivery using HTML.
- Information system components and structures.
- Modelling functionality using use case diagrams.
- More structure – communication between information systems; business-to-business systems.
- Data and information representation using XML.
- Applications of XML.
- Manipulating and transforming information.
- What is an information system? A holistic approach to discerning what information systems are and are not.
Note
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