User:Nadiners/ Thesis draft
The Nature of information is impossible to Unpublish
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Read this to begin: Overdue Account
Data, from 'Datum' in Latin means 'something given'. Data constantly gives, but how do you give data back? David Thorne's email thread with Jane illustrates 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 : raw symbols or signs
- Information : data that are processed to be useful; provides answers to "who", "what", "where", and "when" questions
- knowledge : application of data and information; answers "how" questions
- Wisdom : evaluated understanding. (optional)
(first specified in detail by R. L. Ackoff in 1988) 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.