June 2nd, 2006
Knowledge vs. Information: more discussion
Knowledge transferred to another person can be called education. Knowledge that is transferred to a database can be called data. Maybe I’m missing something here, or maybe we need to create a new term for expressed or explicit knowledge. To me the definitions all resolve to “all knowledge is information, but all information is not knowledge.” Maybe it used to be knowledge, or maybe it continues to be knowledge in the heads of the people who know the information, but explicit knowledge/information itself — is it just another type of data or something more?