ระบบฐานข้อมูลเว็บของสมณศักดิ์พระสงฆ์ไทย (A Web Database System of Thai Ecclesiastical Peerages)

Abstract

Ecclesiastical peerages is the rank of nobility, which is graciously appointed by the Monarch. Currently, Thai Sangha hierarchical committee is in charge of the proposal or promotion for ecclesiastical peerages, in which they must give the new title without appending the existing ones. Unless the title is vacant, it will not be able to replace the original peerage. The objective of this research is to develop a database system in the form of a web application for the Thai Sangha hierarchical committee, in charge of the proposal or promotion for ecclesiastical peerages, via internet network according to the system development life cycle: SDLC. After that, the developed system was installed and testified for two months by 61 monks who are representatives from Buddhist ecclesiastical peerages in Region 7. The samples were selected by using the purposive sampling method. Experimenting data were later collected by using a web database system satisfaction evaluation form of web database system of Thai ecclesiastical peerages. The efficiency of the developed system and the data collected were analyzed using statistical methods. The results of this research found that, users were satisfied with the system performance at the highest level (x ̅ = 4.94) and standard deviation (S.D.) equal to 0.14.