[Sigia-l] RE: Data vs. Information

[Jan Egil Hagen]

* Jan Egil Hagen <janha+sigial at ifi.uio.no>
| I don't believe that getting a community to agree on one correct
| definition is _totally_ futile,

* Boniface Lau <boniface_lau at compuserve.com>
| Do we know enough about the process of understanding to tell whether a
| definition of "information" is _correct_?

Please notice that I wrote "/agree/ on one correct definition".  If a
group agrees that a definition is correct then it is correct in that
group but of course not /universally/ correct.

| The reality is that people/clients use the terms "data" and
| "information" interchangeably. The more discriminated ones see the
| differences between data and information like shades of grey.

Maybe, but I shouldn't have to take anybodys word for it that /that's/
how people use the word information.  Not even if they are dictionary
authors.  So go fill out <URL: http://www.iawiki.net/InformationVsData
> :)

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