[LINK] Open Knowledge Live from Canberra

[Dr Bob Jansen]

This conversation takes me back to my old AI days at CSIRO. I seem to 
remember then, the AI community mired in discussions of data vs 
information vs knowledge vs wisdom. Sounds like we haven't progressed 
much since then.

My take on it all was/is that we need to be careful in anchoring stuff 
to definitions. In this area, what is data to one may be 
information/knowledge/wisdom to another. The issue would appear to me to 
be one of context and that is one thing we haven't really solved in the 
AI arena, context-sensitive application of 
data/information/knowledge/wisdom.

bobj

On 28/08/13 3:12 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> On 28/08/2013 2:58 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:
>
>> It doesn't help that he uses Information when he should say Data, and
>> Knowledge when he should say Information.
> Roger, you took the words right out of my mouth, sorry, email.
>
> However I was also going to make reference to andyf's posting on "What
> the Americans do with fibre-based broadband" in which there was the
> phrase "the consumption of knowledge".
>
> Knowledge is a human characteristic, it's something a human has. You
> can't consume it and you can't open source it.
>
> Maybe it's all this new fad for on-line education that's churning out
> uninformed ambassadors, library directors and journalists.
>

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