Information management directions: the integration challenge

Abstract

On October 31 - November 2, 1988, the National Computer Systems Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, formerly the National Bureau of Standards, in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Management of Data, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Database Engineering, and the Federal Data Management Users Group, held the fifth in the series of Information Management Directions (formerly called Data Base Directions) workshops. The purpose of these workshops is to examine in depth key trends and strategies that affect the future of the information management profession. The focus of Workshop 5 was on issues related to integration and productivity. The complete workshop report, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DIRECTIONS: THE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE, has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as Special Publication 500-167, and can be ordered from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.