• From: Frank Manola <fmanola@a...>
• To: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:40:40 -0400

On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> Peter Hunsberger wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Costello, Roger L.<costello@m... 
>> > wrote:
>>>       What is Data?
>> Data is information that lacks context.
>
> Or data is information fragmented to optimize logical processing,  
> rather than assembled for human comprehension.
>
> I think the William Kent book is probably a better idea than  
> anything we'll come up with here, though.

+1

I think Bill's book can be reasonably summarized:  "No matter how  
complicated you think modeling reality with data is, it's more  
complicated than that."

  

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