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From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
To: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 04:57:58 -0600

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Simon St.Laurent<simonstl@s...> 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.

What do humans have to do with any of this?

I think you and Simon are really in violent agreement. "Context" is ultimately a construction of humanity. I think, for example, RDF folks were slow to understand this.

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