Re: Titles

Subject: Re: Titles
From: David Dubin <David_Dubin -at- BESTSOFTWARE -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:58:24 -0500

Donald Feidner wrote, "Information already exists and we make something out
of it -- but you can't really DEVELOP it."

While I respect his viewpoint, I cannot agree with it. In a technical
sense, information does not exist, data does. Webster's Collegiate
Dictionary defines information as, "knowledge communicated or received
concerning a particular fact or circumstance -- knowledge gained through
study, communication, research, etc."

I believe that, as defined above, we gather various data from many
resources and we develop information (knowledge) based on our
interpretation of that data. Interpretation is the key to the title of
Information Developer, in my opinion, because Donald and I may view the
same data from the same or different sources, but *develop* quite different
information sets from it.

Think about the dictionary, it contains a great many words which we can
consider to be the data. How differently could you develop information from
those words than I?

David Dubin
This has been one man's opinion, yours may vary with mileage.


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