Re: database systems and organizational intelligence
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:00:14 -0400
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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message
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> The physical representation, real,
Agreed.
> Data IMO encompasses meaning.
I'm not so sure. Let's take the SETI project. (Search for Extra
Terrestrial Intelligence). They've collected lots of data, gathered by
radio receptors. But there may or may not be any meaning behind the data
they have gathered.
> only contains shapes and media, not meaning.
> So, in order to retrieve data from the rosetta stone, we need to
> interpret the carvings (being shapes on media a.k.a. signs).
Well, the rosetta stone may have been a poor example. It contained the same message in Greek, and in Hieroglyphics and some other language. The people who decoded the Rosetta stone knew one of the languages, and used that one to decode the others. Received on Mon May 31 2004 - 16:00:14 CEST