The challenge of modelling information and data in the humanities
The challenge of modelling information and data in the humanities
Abstract
Notions of information before and after “information society” imply important conceptual shifts in the humanities, which are reflected in a variety of approaches to texts and documents. Focusing on the evolving relationship between three related but distinct concepts – information, data and communication, – this article examines the diversity of knowledge management projects in humanistic disciplines. Various humanistic approaches base their approach, implicitly or explicitly, upon a specific comprehension of the notions “information” and “data”, and offer a rather opaque treatment of the notion of “communication”. More than assuming a loose association between, on the one hand, information and data, and, on the other hand, knowledge goals in the humanities, the authors substantiate the claim that there exists a close functional relationship between these.
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Keywords:
informationhumanitiesdatacommunicationknowledge