Knowledge

The discipline of information science studies the way information is made and generated (Borko 3). According to Morville, data "is a string of identified but unevaluated symbols" (46). Information, on the other hand, is "evaluated, validated, or useful data", and knowledge is "information in the context of understanding."

"Knowledge is still regarded by most thinkers as direct grasp of ultimate reality, although the practice of knowing has been assimilated to the procedure of the useful arts;-involving, that is to say, doing that manipulates and arranges natural energies " (Dewey, 1929, p. 357).

References:

Borko, H. "Information Science: What Is It?" American Documentation 19.1 (1968): 3-5. Print.

John Dewey, Experience and Nature (1929; rpt. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1958), 357.

Morville, Peter. Ambient Findability. Sebastopol: O'Reilly, 2005. Print.