DCSs can be considered a specialized form of content management system (CMS), particularly when they allow the information being gathered to be published, edited, modified, deleted, and maintained.
[4][5] Accurate data collection is essential to many business processes,[6][7][8] to the enforcement of many government regulations,[9] and to maintaining the integrity of scientific research.
This categorization allows encyclopedic knowledge to be gathered and applied in the design and implementation of future systems.
In software design, it is very important to identify generalizations and patterns and to re-use existing knowledge whenever possible.
Modeling these structures and relationships in software yields technical terms describing the hierarchy of data containers, along with a set of industry-specific synonyms.