Data base directions information resource management-making it work, executive summary

On October 21-23, 1985, the Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD), the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Database Engineering, and the Federal Data Management Users Group (FEDMUG), held the fourth in their series of Data Base Directions workshops. The purpose of this workshop was to assess the nature of current information resource management (IRM) practice and problems, and to explore solutions which have proven workable.