On 11 Jul 1995, Grant B. Harris wrote:
> I would venture to say that
> knowledge is something that happens in a person's mind. Information is
> something that you store in a database. Such information may help to
> create knowledge, but I have yet to see a database system that does
> anything more 'knowledgeable' than store and manipulate symbols.
>
This is an important distinction. It is perhaps for that reason that it
has been drawn many times in the past decade, by many different thinkers,
using (unhappily) many different nomenclatures.
For example, I've seen this in the form
"data" (for uninterpreted computer stuff in a database)
versus "information" (for the same stuff understood by a human)
Regards
Jim Michmerhuizen
web residence at http://world.std.com/~jamzen/
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