Key digital technologies to deal with data

Yorick Wilks and Matthijs Den-Besten ()
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Yorick Wilks: Oxford Internet Institute - University of Oxford
Matthijs Den-Besten: CRG - Centre de recherche en gestion - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: It is commonly accepted that data is not the same as information, let alone knowledge. For instance, the numbering and photographing of the fins of thousands of dolphins would certainly be data, but doubtfully information of knowledge; a city's large phone directory is undoubtedly information, but hardly knowledge - and certainly not permanent or reliable knowledge. These distinctions preoccupy philosophers but few ordinary folk. Yet in science all these forms are of crucial importance.

Keywords: Data management; information extraction; information retrieval; knowledge; natural-language processing; semantic web (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Published in W. H. Dutton and P. W. Jeffreys. World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, pp.107-119, 2010

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