Organising

Organising is an information processconcerned with changing the format of data. Collected data, or data received from other information systems, aren't always in a form that makes them suitable for any of the information processes. The role of the organising process is to prepare or format the data so that they can be used by the other processes. Organising can take two general forms:

''• document preparation - This organises data for the display process. Documents are usually designed for users and are not always suitable for further processing by information systems''

''• data preparation - this organises data for the other information processes. Data prepared for the other information processes are generally not suitable for displaying or for direct human use.''

Organising can involve changing data from one type to another. For example, text data may be converted into image data for displaying as a title graphic on a web page, or to audio data to be output as spoken words. Numerical data may be converted into text data for display or to be sent as an e-mail attachment.