[Air-l] Information and knowledge

[Michael Arnold Mages]

on 10/12/05 1:27 AM, clifford tatum at clifford at u.washington.edu wrote:

> can you -- or anyone else on the list -- point me to references on
> the distinction between information and knowledge?
> 
> here are two that i know of:

It sounds like you are talking about DIKW hierarchy?

The seminal work:
Ackoff, R. L., "From Data to Wisdom", Journal of Applies Systems Analysis,
Volume 16, 1989 p 3-9.

See
http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~nsharma/dikw_origin.htm for a history on
the development of this approach.

Best,
Michael


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