> A butterfly in the wild is not data.
Why not ?
-- or at least a *datum*.
( Surely not only in a linguistic but also in both a statistical and
a philosophical sense, I'd think. Or did I get screwed up somewhere ? )
- Laval Hunsucker
Amsterdam, Nederland
----- Original Message ----
From: Simon Spero <ses_at_UNC.EDU>
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 3:22:13 PM
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] LIBER Quarterly Article on Europeana
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_openlib.org> wrote:
> Weinheimer Jim quotes Rick Erway
>
> > The reason is that a butterfly specimen has entirely different metadata
> than a painting of a butterfly.
>
> A butterfly specimen has no metadata since the specimen is not data.
>
A butterfly in the wild is not data. A butterfly *specimen* **is** data; it
is a document, by virtue of it's being a specimen; it provides testimony as
to what a butterfly is (or as to what someone would assent to when asked 'Is
this a butterfly?").
See:
Briet, Suzanne (1951). What is Documentation? Ed. by Ronald E Day and
Laurent Martinet. Paris, France:
Édit. URL: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~roday/briet.htm.
Buckland, M.K. (1997). “What is a “Document”?”. In: Journal of the American
Society for Information
Science 48.9. Pp. 804–809. URL:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/whatdoc.html.
Quine, Willard Van Orman (1960). Word and Object. MIT Press.
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