Talk:Information logistics

This page is not necessarily composed like an advertisement, but it does lack some background information. Currently, information logistics is a field of general information sciences, but it is a relatively young science.

I will translate the topic from the german Wikipedia site a.s.a.p, which is pretty good because it is brief but to the point and it offers some background information and links to institutions dealing with information logistics as science. The content of the german page is similiar to the content on this, but it is written in a more objective view.

Lately, some web links were deleted from the german page which were only commercial links. Please mind this for the future for this page.

-- David Adam, funk_junkee@hotmail.com 217.227.9.79 14:54, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Update

I've translated the text from the german page. Unfortunately, the links to the Fraunhofer Institute of Information (they invented mp3) pages are not available in english, so i will look for topics on pages of partner organizations in UK/US.

-- David Adam, funk_junkee@hotmail.com 91.13.18.98 10:15, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Planning to add matewrial on Data Logistics

I am planning to edit this page by adding material relating to Data Logistics (DL), and area that I have been working in for some 20 years. The original term was Logistical Networking (LN), but it was changed to Data Logistics to generalize it to fields of Computer Systems beyond Networking. The term is closely related to Information Logistics, but it is not quite as general since it relates primarily to the fields of Computer Networking, Storage and Processing.

It may be that it would be more appropriate to create a separate page for DL, which I am open to, but since the concepts are so closely related I thought that we might start by adding some text, references and links to the Information Logistics page.I am declaring my intent here to give the original author of this page a chance to do some research into LN and DL (see loci.cs.utk.edu or google "Logistical Networking".) If there is any objection to adding DL related material to this page, I'd like to understand and take account of them before modifying the page at all.

DL has had a number of definitions over the years, but the one I am currently using is given below.

Data Logistics: "The study of solutions to problems in Computer Systems that flexibly span resources and services relating to Data Movement, Data Storage and Data Processing." Systems that support general Data Logistics solutions thus must plan the traditionally separate fields of Networking, File/Database Systems and Process Management.

Examples: 1. Data Caching and Replication are classic examples of Data Logistics solutions to problems in Computer Systems and Networking with high data access latencies or data transfer resource limitations. It works mainly across the areas of data transfer and data storage.

2. Dynamic Compression in data transfer is another example which uses computational resources to minimize the bandwidth requirements of data transfer.

These are just a few simple examples, and the applications of this area are hugely various.

It seems to me that this overlaps greatly with this part of the definition of Information Logistics:

Methods for achieving the goal are:

the analysis of information demand intelligent information storage the optimization of the flow of information

Micahdbeck (talk) 08:36, 5 June 2017 (UTC)