Data registration involves recording information on a medium.
Recording is the action that refers to storing something or recording it in some type of document. A data , for its part, is information that enables access to knowledge.
The notion of data registration , therefore, is linked to recording certain information on a medium . Data recording can be carried out both on paper and in digital format . For example: "As soon as I arrived at the office, an administrative employee asked me for my documents and proceeded to record data on a form" , "Thanks to this new technological tool that we have just incorporated, data recording will be much faster" , "We are having problems with data logging as the system is not working well: I apologize for the inconvenience."
Data recording by the police
Police around the world find data records precisely one of their most useful and effective work tools. And they allow you to have immediate access to the identity of people about whom you want to know some type of specific information.
Exactly, the authorities have registries where they have stored numerous aspects of citizenship such as names and surnames, address, age, sex, marital status, parents' names, date and place of birth, photographs, fingerprints, work... All that and much more. but without forgetting the infractions that may have been committed and even the police record, in the event that they have it for having committed a crime.
In computing, data logging is common.
The concept in computing
In the field of computing , the block with information that is part of a table is known as a data record. This means that, in a database, the data record is a row .
This row or record represents a set of data that maintains a certain link with each other. All the rows of a table respect an identical structure, a characteristic that allows you to work and make calculations with the information. The table, in short, constitutes the database .
In order to carry out the aforementioned registry, it is necessary to resort to the use of the technology that exists and that makes it easier not only to keep it up to date and to be able to consult it when necessary but also to be able to fill in new rows and columns. There are various specific programs for this, however, one of the most used in the world is Microsoft Excel.
Biometric data registration
Biometric data registration , on the other hand, is known as the collection of information linked to a person's biometrics . These are data that contribute to the identification of the subject in question: a fingerprint, a photograph, etc.
In addition to everything stated above, we cannot forget that in Spain there is what is known as the General Data Protection Registry, which depends on what the Spanish Data Protection Agency is. Its function is none other than to ensure the publicity of the files and the treatment given to the personal data that exists in it. Data referring to Public Administration files, privately owned files, international transfers...