The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

1. (1) Application--A separately identifiable and interrelated set of information resources technologies that allows a state agency to manipulate information resources to support specifically defined objectives.
2. (2) Board--The governing board of the Department of Information Resources.

3. (3) Data processing--Information technology equipment and related services designed for the automated storage, manipulation, and retrieval of data by electronic or mechanical means, or both. The term includes:

   1. (A) central processing units, front-end processing units, miniprocessors, microprocessors, and related peripheral equipment such as data storage devices, document scanners, data entry equipment, terminal controllers, data terminal equipment, computer-based word processing systems other than memory typewriters, and equipment and systems for computer networks;
   2. (B) all related services, including feasibility studies, systems design, software development, and time-sharing services, whether provided by state employees or by others; and
   3. (C) the programs and routines used to employ and control the capabilities of data processing hardware, including operating systems, compilers, assemblers, utilities, library routines, maintenance routines, applications, and computer networking programs.
4. (4) Department--The Department of Information Resources.
5. (5) Geographic information system--A computer hardware and software system designed to collect, manage, manipulate, analyze, and display spatially referenced data; includes attribute data (usually in an associated data base), as well as graphic data which may be in vector (line) or raster (image) form; may include cartographic and geographic data such as earth science, natural resource, engineering, demographic, or socioeconomic data; and will include for purposes of these rules all types of automated mapping, facilities management, and mapping applications from a computer-aided design system.
6. (6) Imaging systems--Information resources technologies with video, scanning, and computer graphics capabilities (including raster formats) which are used to capture, process, create, output, store, and/or archive images, excluding process-control systems for medical diagnostic applications.
7. (7) Information resources--The procedures, equipment, and software that are designed, built, operated, and maintained to collect, record, process, store, retrieve, display, and transmit information, and associated personnel including consultants and contractors.
8. (8) Information resources services--Services provided under contract to a state agency by an individual or firm, or by a consultant or professional engineer under Texas Civil Statutes, Articles 664-4 and 6252-11c, which include: studying agency's existing information resources; advising on necessary changes or additions to the information resources environment; performing information resources feasibility studies; information resources training; or recommending, managing, converting, designing, procuring, developing, documenting, programming, testing, implementing, or installing new information resources, including systems development methodologies and disaster recovery capabilities.
9. (9) Information resources technologies--Data processing and telecommunications hardware, software, services, supplies, personnel, facility resources, maintenance, and training.
10. (10) Interagency application--An information resources project implemented or used by multiple agencies.
11. (11) Project--A program to provide information resources technologies support to functions within or among elements of a state agency, which should be characterized by well-defined parameters, specific objectives, common benefits, planned activities, a scheduled completion date, and an established budget with a specified source of funding.
12. (12) Risk--The possibility of an act or event occurring that would have an adverse effect on the state, an organization or an information system. Risk involves both the probability of failure and the possible consequences of a failure.
13. (13) Risk analysis--Risk analysis is the evaluation of planned project events and deliverables in regards to various factors to consider the possibility or probability of failure and the consequences of such a failure. Risk analysis will yield an identification of the areas of greater and lower risk.
14. (14) State agency--A department, commission, board, office, council, or other agency in the executive or judicial branch of government that is created by the constitution or a statute of this state, including a university system or institution of higher education as defined by the Education Code, §61.003.
15. (15) Statewide application--An information resources project implemented or used throughout state government.
16. (16) Telecommunications--Any transmission, emission, or reception of signs, signals, writings, images, and sounds of intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems and includes all facilities and equipment performing those functions that are owned, leased, or used by state agencies and branches of state government.
17. (17) Telecommunications services--Intercity communications facilities or services. "Telecommunications services" does not include single agency point-to-point radio systems or facilities or services of criminal justice information systems.
18. (18) Wide area network--A network that interconnects geographical boundaries (such as buildings, campuses, cities, regions, and/or states) which has a total distance (first node to last node) of two or more miles and might be connected using common carrier services.

Source Note:The provisions of this §201.1 adopted to be effective December 31, 1990, 15 TexReg 7429; amended to be effective July 12, 1991, 16 TexReg 3581; amended to be effective August 8, 1994, 19 TexReg 5837; amended to be effective February 17, 1995, 20 TexReg 639.