You will have some kind of answer if you search for information in
Google, try this one: "data, information, knowledge, wisdom hierachy"
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
(Eliot, 1934)
The ‘Data Information Knowledge Wisdom Hierarchy’ is an epistemological
system
usually associated with Russell Ackoff (Ackoff, 1989) although elements
of it are
prefigured in the work of Milan Zeleny (1987), and in more poetic form
in T.S.
Eliot (above) and in the lyrics of a song by Frank Zappa[1] <#_ftn1>.
http://poeticsofthought.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/the-data-information-knowledge-wisdom-hierarchy/
This is information:
Ray Denenberg came to the Library of Congress in 1982 to direct the
development and implementation of protocols for the Linked Systems
Project. That led to the Z39.50 protocol, and Denenberg was the author
of the Z39.50 standard. He was appointed Director of the Z39.50
Maintenance Agency in 1992, and subsequently the SRU Maintenance Agency.
For several years now, his work has focused on SRU, metadata standards
including MODS and PREMIS, and W3C and OASIS standards. He is the LC
representative to both W3C and OASIS and is Chair of the OASIS Search
Web Services Technical Committee.
Information is of course easier to handle, even if you need some
technical knowledge.
Best regards
Jan
Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress skrev:
> Jan Szczepanski said:
>
>> to understand, it's
>> like the difference between malt and whisky. Information is easier to
>> handle than knowledge.
>>
>
> Can you help me with this analogy. Which is easier to handle, the malt or
> the whiskey?
>
> --Ray
>
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