Application Design:

Micro CDS/ISIS is a text oriented software package. It is a good , ho ice if one wishes to store textual data, retrieve the data by certain criteria, and display or print the data in a convenient user defined format. A machine-readable library catalogue is c of its typical applications. All the data describing a book or any other document is stored the form of a record and all such records are stored in the form of master file. In the same manner, we can store data pertaining to any entity such as plants, persons, institutions. etc. The machine-readable master file is known as a database. While designing a database, the data elements and their corresponding characteristics must be specified. In a bibliographical database, one can specify data elements such as 

i)  author names 

ii)  titles 

iii)  publication data 

iv)  subject descriptors, etc.