Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40b8f950$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
>
> > Alfredo Novoa wrote:
> >
> >>x wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>When those facts are stored in some computer memory, how do you call
> >>>>>the stored representation ?
> >>>>
> >>>>The internal representation or the physical representation.
> >>>
> >>>Wow !
> >>>An this is not data, I suppose.
> >>
> >>Of course not. The data are the facts not the stored representation.
> >
> > I have used terms like "storing data" and "retrieving data" for my
entire
> > career to date -- what should I be saying instead? --dawn
>
> Why would you say something else?
> When you store data some mechanism creates some
> physical representation that can be transformed
> back into a user or program usable presentation
> when it is retrieved. I don't see why
> acknowledging that the physical representation is not
> the data itself should force you to change your
> use of these terms.

When you say "physical representation" you mean the electrical signal ? How do you call a "program usable presentation" ?

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