User:Nadiners/ Thesis draft

The Nature of information is impossible to Unpublish

Data, from 'Datum' in latin meaning 'something given'. Data constantly gives, but how do you give data back? I found that David Thorne's email thread with Jane, illustrate the essence of digital information. Once data is created it can only disseminate, the very idea of receiving your data back is absurd.

Before entering the topic I'd like to introduce the DIKW classification model which represents the relationships between the follwing:

Data :
Information
knowledge
Wisdom

Typically information is defined in terms of data, knowledge in terms of information, and wisdom in terms of knowledge

To Publish: is to make knowledge public. Public comes from the latin 'populus' from latin meaning 'people', so to publish is to give knowledge to people.

If we agree on these definitions, then data, the raw segments, that are available to the public are not considered as publishing.