[Sigia-l] Serious Discussion of IA Research?

[Eric Scheid]

On 4/12/04 1:03 PM, "Boniface Lau" <boniface_lau at compuserve.com> wrote:

> For a field known as Information Architecture, what is more basic then
> distinguishing information from data. After all, that field has long
> been insisting that information is not data.

has it really?

I'm looking back through the archive of 4000+ messages on SIGIA-L and the
only time the question of distinguishing data from information seems to come
up is when it is the question of topic (like this thread).

I can't find any other threads discussing IA topics (eg. IA deliverables,
standards, taxonomies, facetted classification, findability) in which the
point is made, nay, "insisted" (!), that "information is not data".

I posit that the difference just hasn't been relevant for a great deal of
the IA discussions.

e.