The White Pages Website in Context of an Information System

Examine the snowy Pages Website in context of an tuition system Submitted by Ivan Tabal Submitted to Mr. Chris Kalodikis Information Processes and Technology Year 11 Marist College Kogarah Introduction The light Pages websites innovation, like another(prenominal) telephone directories, is to intromit the telephone number of a subscriber identified by establish and address to be found. reader names be generally listed in alphabetical order, together with their postal or street address and telephone number. The general purpose of the website is to allow lot to easily find others with with(predicate) search features, such as quick search and reverse lookups.This report leave examine the purpose and its importance of the White Pages website, the nurture processes involve and the people who part it and overly the participants whos contributed towards its development. It will indeed go on to outline the countenance info unavoidable to run the website and also the stud y technology involved in order to produce the website. The final part of the report will discuss the influences made by the environment during the websites development and the amicable and ethical issues raised during the websites development. The Purpose * Who is the uninfected pages for?The Purpose of the fair pages is to provide schooling of peoples, name address, phone number. It also provides information on businesses, and governments organisations. It was originally designed to help people find quick information approximately others for travelling purposes. yet today it is slowly becoming noncurrent payable to some ethical and social issues. * Why is it an important blood of information? It was an important source of information because it contained important details about people, which could be accessed to help friends or family members easily find their location or call them.The White pages provide information on suitable shops that people would want to attend to an d for different types of problems. This includes the taxation companies, it companies The Information Processes Involved * How is the information collected? entropy is collected through a number of shipway into the etiolate pages. Each year it must print out white pages about businesses and residence. It can collect its information by people who impart provided them with information about both residential or Business or The white pages reuses information from older contacts that have been given before. * How is data organize?Data is organized into three categories 1st Category is the residential. It contains addresses and phone meter of people who have scaned in the white page and provide their information to be easily found. 2nd Category is for Businesses, which use the website to mostly make known to the public which can hopefully give them an edge over other businesses. But today businesses mostly use the internet to advertise and the TV or billboards. 3rd Category is the Government category which shows laws in the states, education, provides information on immigration, health and other social factors that can affect a person.But the information is very limited and contains nothing for most of the links clicked overleap education. The data is wherefore sub organised into different section, e. g. for Businesses it provides different categories for IT, Taxation, Health, Banking, kayo and etc. This is made to easily locate the business which the consumer is looking for. * How is the data analysed? The data from the people of businesses or of residents is firstly stored on the website as data. It is thus transformed according to what information it contains into 3 categories. Data is searched, selected and sorted.We as users of the website are able to Search and Select the data which is provided through the white pages. But before we are able to do this it must be entered and class by the Analysts and People working in White Pages * How is the d ata stored? Data can be stored in different ways on the White Pages. Most likely on Rational Database which is stored and kept on a server. This allows for the White pages website to get the information in one particular spatial relation without moving the hardware. The data is retrieved by people by first clicking on the object we want to see.The gather up then goes to the hardware server and the request is searched and goes back to the user with the information so he can see. * How is the data processed? Data is processed through a number of ways. animate records of the white pages are re spick-and-spaned each year. They are asked about all revisiond that have occurred to see if the company has changed or close defeat and then update the white pages. The same process is done with residents, and updated, but if the residents do not want their information held in the white pages they can take up it down. * How is the data transmitted?The data is transmitted through the inter net to users. From the White pages server through the internet of the persons computer and then displays the requested information to the person. * How is the data displayed? It can be displayed through a number of ways which can include Screens and Printers. Screens Displays the text and information through a screen of a computer. Printer Displays the text in a book which can be written and printed. The Participants Involved When the white pages were created, they were created by a company which collected information about people.Workers of the white pages may have included system analysts, printer, directors, overseers, editors and people who collected the information from customers either by going from door to door or registering them in the local anaesthetic post office. People who used the white pages were every day citizens. They needed the white pages before to find each other when needed. Now the citizens of the new generation are stopping to use the white pages even th ough by law they must be printed. The Appropriate Data * Residents who register into the white pages can provide * Their first and last name suburbia * Address * Phone number * Businesses who register can provide * Their name * Owners name * Phone number * Suburb they are located * truncated description about them * Government who register have to provide * let on of Business of Government * Phone * Address The Methods of Information Technology needed * Hardware involved in producing the White Pages Website * Internet-ready PC * Domain * case optics (wired internet) * Software compulsory to produce the White Pages Website * HTTPD e. g. Apache * Internet * Computer methods required to output information Audio speakers, headphones, earphones, headsets, microphones * Hardcopy printing, photocopying * Internet services The Influences Made Towards the surround During the Websites Development Like many other telephone directory companies, trial phone books on websites has made posit ive impacts towards the reduction of cutting down trees and also the disposal of phone books in landfills which is a major subscriber towards pollution. A survey shows that almost 75% costumers are completely unsuspecting of the environmental and financial impact in printing, faceing and recycling these books.Online access to white pages, yellow pages etc. is becoming more and more popular and a much better choice as it is easier to find others whilst also making positive contributions to the reduction of phone book wastes. It is also cheaper and easier to run for companies due to the ease of access and flexibility it provides for their employees, whereas phone book publishers go through a series of process in order to make and deliver their phone books, every year. As for the website, it only requires minimal effort to keep it running, at a lower cost and in a less(prenominal) tedious manner.The THREE Social and THREE Ethical Issues Raised in the Development of the Website Socia l and ethical issues associated with 1. Planning, design and implementation * Machine-centred systems simplify what computers do at the expense of participants * Human-centred systems as those that make participants work as effective and satisfying as possible * How the relationships between participants change as a result of the new system * Ensuring the new system provides participants with a safe work environment * Awareness of the impact the system may have on the participants * Opportunities to use their skills Meaningful work * Need for change * Opportunities for involvement and commitment 2. Information systems and database * Acknowledgment of data sources * The freedom of information act * Privacy principles * Accuracy of data and the reliability of data sources * inlet to data, ownership and control of data * New slews in the organisation, processing, storage and retrieval of data such as data warehousing and data-mining 3. Communication systems * The use of discourse s ystems to share knowledge, not just data * Issues related to communicate systems Ideas delivered by this means appear less forceful and caring than ideas delivered in person * Danger of being misinterpreted * Power relationships * Privacy and confidentiality * Electronic junk transport * Information overload * Implications of Internet trading including * Local taxation laws * use ramifications * Nature of business * Trading over the Internet and its commercial implications * The difficulties of illegalise content on the Internet * Issues arising from Internet banking, including Security of banking details * changing nature of work * Branch closure and job loss * The removal of physical boundaries by enabling * Work from home * Virtual organisations, ie organisations structured around the communication system * Removal of national and outside(a) barriers to trade * How participants are supported * Individuals by providing a means for communication * Participant teams by enabli ng the exchange of ideas and data * The emerging trend of accessing media such as radio and video across the Internet