data library

[′dad·ə lī‚brer·ē]

(computer science)

A center for the storage of data not in current use by the computer.

data library

(1) A section within the IT department that retains offline media in the form of microfilm, optical discs, and disk and tape cartridges.

(2) An online storage peripheral. See tape library and disk library.

(3) Years ago, the data library was a section within the datacenter that housed the removable disks and tapes. Data library personnel were responsible for cataloging and maintaining the media. See datacenter.

The Data Library

This was a common section in datacenters years ago when open reel tapes and removable disks were the norm. See disk pack and open reel.

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Users can also find public data in the LiveStories data library. These civic data sets are pulled from sources such as the Census Bureau, including the American Community Survey, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and they are organized by subject.

LiveStories

While the Faculty of Extenison is focusing on program content, it will leverage the GIS and techincal expertise of the Universties Data Library Service and other members of the campus GIS community.

Alberta Capital Regional Alliance (ACRA) Regional GIS project synopsis

Each time you exchange information with your CAM data library, consider these questions:

Intelligence--a key to profitability: the more manufacturing information you can generate, retrieve, use, and save for future use the more efficient and profitable your shop can be

The WHOI Data Library & Archives (DLA) continued to process and catalog their extensive collection of technical reports, maps, scientist's papers, ship cruise reports and logs, etc.

Report of the librarian

It compares each fingerprint to known chemical substance patterns in a data library and either matches the fingerprint, or records the sample as a new pattern.

Market profile: electronic noses

Or should we find ways to augment our data library to gain better insight into how our economy is functioning?

Measures and models

A number of data library files have recently been developed as CONTAMW library files, making them easy to access by users of the program.

NIST DEVELOPS DATA LIBRARIES FOR AIRFLOW MODELING

Professor of sociology Annette Lareau and Salvatore Saporito, assistant director of Temple's Social Science Data Library, found that racial factors, independent of measures of school quality, appear to have a powerful and independent effect on high school selection.

SCHOOL VOUCHER PROGRAM May Foster Racial Separation

Appendix D describes the data library of the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR), and lists the databases available for purchase from it as of the first half of 1998.

Garrison, Bruce. Computer-Assisted Reporting

In the quest to better serve design engineers, every major semiconductor vendor now serves its data library via the WWW.

EE virtual libraries