Re: cdt glossary 0.1.0 [Data]
From: Marshall Spight <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 24 Feb 2006 14:21:20 -0800
Message-ID: <1140819680.105004.10930_at_j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Date: 24 Feb 2006 14:21:20 -0800
Message-ID: <1140819680.105004.10930_at_j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
mAsterdam wrote:
> There are people who think that data doesn't need
> to mean anything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information
> (currently) says "information has meaning (i.e.: can inform),
> while data does not. ".
> Somehow this "data has no meaning" idea has caught on.
Yeah, that wikipedia article is pretty lame. I found this gem in there, also: "data is unstructured." So I guess if I were to use the phrase "structured data", it would be a contradiction in terms, and I'd probably be the first one ever to use such a term. Right ....
Oh, and we're also going to have to rename the group to comp.informationbases.theory, by the way.
Marshall Received on Fri Feb 24 2006 - 23:21:20 CET