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The challenge of modelling information and data in the humanities

Author(s): Zöllner-Weber, AmélieApollon, Daniel

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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Zöllner-Weber, Amélie; Apollon, Daniel: The challenge of modelling information and data in the humanities. In: Hug, Theo: Media, Knowledge & Education. Exploring new Spaces, Relations and Dynamics in Digital Media Ecologies. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press 2008, S. 118-137. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19791.
@INCOLLECTION{Zöllner-Weber2008,
 author = {Zöllner-Weber, Amélie and Apollon, Daniel},
 title = {The challenge of modelling information and data in the humanities},
 year = 2008,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19791}",
 editor = {Hug, Theo},
 address = {Innsbruck},
 booktitle = {Media, Knowledge & Education. Exploring new Spaces, Relations and Dynamics in Digital Media Ecologies},
 pages = {118--137},
 publisher = {Innsbruck University Press},
}
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