Re: It don't mean a thing ...

"By data, we mean known facts that can be recorded and have an implicit meaning." Source: "Fundamentals of Database Systems, Third Edition" Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe, Addison-Wesley 2000, page 4.

Can we please change the subject now?

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40bc8896$0$36861$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> x wrote:
> >> Well, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data ,
> >> under meaning of data and information,
> >> say "data on its own has no meaning".
>
> <quote>
> Data on its own has no meaning, only
> when interpreted by some kind of data
> processing system does it take on
> meaning and become information.
> </quote>
>
> Googling for this statement showed me
> that some serious copy & pasting of it
> has been going on. Does it have a source?
> Do you (posters - and lurkers - of c.d.theory)
> subscribe to this point of view?
> Is it bad?
>
> Please share your opinion.
>
> To not let you in the dark about mine I'll repeat:
>
> Can we really discuss database while agreeing upon a
> definition of data which says data ('on its own')
> have no meaning? I don't think so.
>
Received on Tue Jun 01 2004 - 16:07:23 CEST