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searching for a location (data elements): A site selector needs to collect information about the various locations under consideration and compare what they have to offer (see the definition of comparative analysis) against a set of selection criteria. We call those who supply the information location data suppliers. Site selectors themselves may be classified as location data suppliers when they work between enterprise developers and local development representatives or area developers. Location data is broken into various categories to
facilitate discussion of a site seletors wants and needs as well as
analysis. We refer to the categories on this page as data elements. A
short list
identifying the most obvious categories is provided below. There is
an even shorter list of four
essential data categories presented in the
resource paper, An
Introduction to the Enterprise Development Process. A group
of consultants and their location data suppliers came up with the set
of 1,200 data elements in 2001. The
data elements were organized into 25 categories. The following list of 29 location data elements is approximately
the the same: A location data element is a constituent of a composite presentation, such as a community economic development profile or package, of factual information especially organized to analysis or use for making decisions, usually by a so called prospect. The following is actually made up of categories of location data elements. They are reducible to elements of informational requests that say an enterprise developer might share with a local development representative as detailed site selection criteria, for example see the over one thousand data elements offered as standards for economic development agencies to use in preparing location pacakges. Links are to definitions in the .network glossary searching for a location (http://www.sitelocationassistance.com/search/nw/dn013.htm) A 2002 white paper, Getting
Started Putting Together the Site Selection Data Standards states
... Two Web sites are using the standards as a baseline for creating
portals communities can use to market directly to corporate location consultants
... 2000.3.3 Use the search tool below to find additional small business resources online. Suggestions for keyword combinations to copy and paste into the search field are listed in italics below. Search the Web for ... small business resources [location]* A Durham, NC user suggested listing http://www.businessfinance.com.
Professor John McCann of
the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham posted pages
titled Information
Society Links and Articles
About the Digital Age online that were among the first
resource listings in this archive. McCann's file were
last updated in 1996 and 1997 respectively; therefore, they contain many
dead end links. Suggestion copy keywords or phrases surrounding broken
links and search on your own using the Google/.network search
engine. Here are a few examples (what you see in italics are from McCann's
files, except for definitions). There's no place like home * Add the name of place that you are interested in, for example, search the Web for ... small business services Florence, AL or site selection services small business North Alabama ... an address string referenced by a hyperlink that is not effective for making a connection to a unit of information of the Internet; a link to a dead end message. See the dead end section of the Network search promise for one approach to resolving problems created by broken links found by search engines or published in webfiles. During its nearly 50 years of existence the International Development Research Council awarded professional designations its members. The designation Master Professional was awarded to active members. Others who were resource and service providers to active members were awarded Associate Master Professional. |
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