RE: xml-dev Digest 1 Sep 2009 10:58:09 -0000 Issue 2227 [T20090901009NS010Z2793479]

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On September 1, 2009 at 10:58 AM, [email protected] wrote:

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Costello, Roger L. < [email protected]> wrote:

<...>
What is Data?
<...>

The answer is of sufficient magnitude to fill a book. May I recommend the excellent "Data and Reality" (Kent, 1978, http://www.amazon.com/Data-Reality-William-Kent/dp/1585009709).

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Josh Matthews

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Peter Hunsberger < [email protected]> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Simon St.Laurent< [email protected]> wrote:
> Peter Hunsberger wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Costello, Roger L.< [email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>>> What is Data?
>>
>> Data is information that lacks context.
>
> Or data is information fragmented to optimize logical processing, rather
> than assembled for human comprehension.

What do humans have to do with any of this?

I think you and Simon are really in violent agreement. "Context" is ultimately a construction of humanity. I think, for example, RDF folks were slow to understand this.

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