Book part: 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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