I'll start with a thought of the popular composer and musician Frank Zappa. "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Love is not music. The music is above everything."
While Zappa is not a specialist in information, he noticed something very important that the information value is elusive and anyone who talks about it rather tries to fool other than to provide them with some knowledge of the world. The relationship between information and content is obvious from first glance, but not all content has information value or medium of information and do not have any information content.
The information is central to every human activity. Michael Eisenberg of the University of Washington believes that there are many types of information and different levels of information. For example, DNA is an information system at the micro level. London Stock Exchange is an information system at a macro level.
I will mention several popular definitions of information, found a place in dictionaries. In the Merriam Webster dictionary
information is defined as: communication or obtained knowledge or intelligence knowledge gained from research, monitoring or instructions, or quality of For example, all software is divided into two categories: data and programs. Programs are collections of instructions for manipulating data. Data can exist in different forms: numbers, texts, bits, bytes stored in electronic memory, or facts stored in the human brain. The term data is most often used to distinguish binary machine-information from textual human-information. In some applications distinguish between files, form data / or files containing binary data and text files containing ASCII code. Corresponding to the concepts and data fields are: data management, data warehouse, data modeling, data mining. Data mining is a high-tech process, which process a large amount of evidence with trends, data links and examples. Retrieval is a key component of information management process. More information means transmitting important data. Knowledge, on the other hand, involves collecting, combining information, synthesizing and making inferences. Actions of people and machines mean - to do something based on the information. Information has different forms:signal communication system or computer, something like a message, experimental data or image representing mental or physical structures.
Information under the "Urban electronic dictionary" is a new term spreading in U.S. territories like wildfire; marijuana information means and to be informed means to be enlightened. When someone knows something the other shows the opposite.In the e-business dictionary information and content are define as following . / http: / /www.businessdictionary.com/definition/content.html/ : information-data are checked for accuracy and timeliness; specific and organized information for a purpose , something that is part of the light and matter, something that increases the understanding of reality and reduces uncertainty. Content: The text contained in a document or publication in any form, is also relevant to information and
communication; all about relevance, readability, relevance and usefulness of the information, the essence of the message, you need to know and received by the audience. something that makes the visitor to return to the website and remain there. A modern author in the field of information science as William Dembski says that no fundamental definition of information and general information in the course of transmission signals in a communication channel, but relies on an update of one option over others. Information, according to Dembski suggests not only a communication tool, but an accident. Before him as author Robert Stalkner/1984 / notes that the content requires accident. To learn something and to gain information is to outline the possibilities.
To understand the information transmitted via the communication means is necessary to know which features are still excluded. Another concept, reflected in the computer dictionary is content: / dictionary.com / something must be filled / example jar or box /; subject or theme, developed in a book or document, something that must be expressed through the media form of speech,
written text or other artistic approach significance, important information or creative material; Information range includes four basic values: and this is data-information-knowledge-action. Data are rough characters, numbers and letters. Data under "Webopedia" represent distinct pieces of information usually formatted in a special way.
* Texts, articles, books, news;
* Sounds, music, talk, reading;
* Images, photos and illustrations;
* Computer files, folders, slide-show;
Information as is Boob Boiko process of transforming knowledge in communication with others. Content, on the other hand is raw information in a form ready
for use, having a defined purpose. Information disseminated freely in the world around us is not content. It becomes a strength when someone manages to capture and make something useful from it. To submit information necessary to encode, process and sets the method of communication via computer.
Coding is still known as the format, it can be a turn in the form of files or visual interpretation / demonstration. The format is the way in which information is
encoded so that computer applications can use it. The most common coding system in the world is ASCII / American standard code for information interchange / or modern version called Unicode / Unicode /. A structure or content that is how we arrange the information. The structure is more important than form, because the format follows the same structure. If you know how to control the content structure, then we can create a format suitable for our purposes and needs. Subsequently, it is necessary for presentation of the material. If the format is related to a presentation / performance, the structure relates to the management or administration. Well-structured content means several things:
* The content is divided into clearly defined categories, which are called types;
* Segments to be manageable, or are components of the content;
* Each component is divided into well-defined parts or elements;
* Each element interacts with other elements of content through indexes and references.