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Thanks Holstee for the inspiration. Turning your skills and expertise into a way to support yourself is more doable than you might think. But expertise isn’t an absolute. Information Is Beautiful. Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science (CNS) Center at Indiana University. Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom. From SystemsWiki by Gene Bellinger, Durval Castro, Anthony Mills There is probably no segment of activity in the world attracting as much attention at present as that of knowledge management. Yet as I entered this arena of activity I quickly found there didn't seem to be a wealth of sources that seemed to make sense in terms of defining what knowledge actually was, and how was it differentiated from data, information, and wisdom.
What follows is the current level of understanding I have been able to piece together regarding data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. I figured to understand one of them I had to understand all of them. According to Russell Ackoff [1989], a systems theorist and professor of organizational change, the content of the human mind can be classified into five categories: Ackoff indicates that the first four categories relate to the past; they deal with what has been or what is known. A further elaboration of Ackoff's definitions follows: Data... data is raw. Addendum. Social Relations & Culture | Cycorp. Thing is the "universal collection": the collection which, by definition, contains everything there is.
Every individual object, every other collection. Everything that is represented in the Knowledge Base ("KB") and everything that could be represented in the KB. Cyc is designed to support representing any imaginable concept in a form that is immediately compatible with all other representations in the KB, and directly usable by computer software. Intangible Things are things that are not physical -- are not made of, or encoded in, matter. Individual is the collection of all things that are not sets or collections. Sets in Cyc, also know as Mathematical Sets, define specific groupings of things. Collections in Cyc are natural kinds or classes, as opposed to mathematical sets; their instances have some common attribute(s). Cyc contains assertions about logical truth that provide the core assumptions required for using Cyc to perform logical inferences. Artifacts are inanimate. Sports.