Modelling FTMSK Alumni information repository prepared / Rosdiana Abd. Razak, Romiza Md. Nor and Sofianita Mutalib

• Main Authors: Abd. Razak, Rosdiana, Md. Nor, Romiza, Mutalib, Sofianita
• Format: Research Reports
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Institutional repositories
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47997/1/47997.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/47997/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Providing a good online service requires access to lots of data. At most organizations, this data is spread among different data store and in different data formats. To solve the problem, a repository can be used as a data layer in order to define a generic representation of a data store. Basically, the main objective of this research is to identify features of Alumni Website and propose 'Fakulti Teknologi Maklumat dan Sains Kuantitatif or FTMSK Alumni information repository framework. The other objective is to construct the taxonomy of profiling for Alumni members. The personal profile of alumni member should be stored in a repository, which can hold valuable and related information that would be shared, retrieved and reused for beneficial needs. So, the findings of this research can be used as a guideline to develop FTMSK Alumni website, which needs a business model and required database, electronic document and workflow, and Internet functionality. The framework is based on information repository which store information and manages information sources and/or information processes. Repository items are used to access data by identifying the detailed object of each items. Consequently, the repository can capture all the related information and the most important, it has to be easy to access data.