It is a quirk of the data-information-knowledge continuum that data perceived by one person might be seen as information by another. The same goes for information and knowledge — the frame of reference is important. You might even say it’s all relative, and I don’t think you’d be wrong. This conundrum is all brought into sharper relief by yet another slice of the range, and I don’t mean Big Data — that’s just marketing. The other division is metadata because it sits right on the cusp between data and information.
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Let's Hear It for Metadata
Posted by: Denis Pombriant December 16, 2013 05:00 AMIt is a quirk of the data-information-knowledge continuum that data perceived by one person might be seen as information by another. The same goes for information and knowledge — the frame of reference is important. You might even say it’s all relative, and I don’t think you’d be wrong. This conundrum is all brought into sharper relief by yet another slice of the range, and I don’t mean Big Data — that’s just marketing. The other division is metadata because it sits right on the cusp between data and information.