Big Data or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Corpus

From government regulations to donor lists to a directory of every single lawyer in the country, very large corpuses of data and the ability to create, manage and access them have become a necessity. This session will cover tools and infrastructure being used to store and use large compilations of data, including normalization, access, retention, and integrity maintenance. 

We will touch on databases, access mechanisms and search tools. And things that don't fall easily into any category. Think it does not apply? If you publish your own journal or maintain your own alumni database, it just might.