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	DIKW - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As such, DIKW is a model that is useful to understanding analysis and the importance and limits of conceptual works.
		DIKW is used primarily in the fields of Information Science and Knowledge Management.
		The DIKW model is used as an aide to research and analysis by applying the following chain of action.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DIKW (1304 words)

	The origin of DIKW Hierarchy
		In Knowledge Management, Russell Ackoff is often cited as the initiator of the DIKW hierarchy.
		His 1988 Presidential Address to ISGSR is considered by many to be the earliest mention of the hierarchy.
		According to him “enlightenment” should be on the top of the familiar DIKW framework [2].
	www-personal.si.umich.edu /~nsharma/dikw_origin.htm (857 words)

	FEATURE - Order Out of Chaos: A Practitioner's Guide to Knowledge Management
		In any case, when your boss or a KM team leader says that the entropy is too high or when you encounter the phrase "information theory entropy" in the KM literature, rest assured that the concept is not just a metaphor, but a hard-nosed business term.
		If an enterprise has a misaligned DIKW situation, reducing entropy in one area may not reduce the entropy in any of the others.
		By examining the DIKW inputs and comparing them with DIKW outputs, the team can make a first-cut determination as to whether or not they have identified enough value added (value of perfect information) for potential productization.
	www.kmbook.com /submit/jhelfer.htm (4694 words)

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		Russell Ackoff is often cited as the initiator of the DIKW hierarchy.
		Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” This is the first vague mention of the hierarchy that was expanded by Cleveland, and later by others to add a layer of "Data".
		Beyond DIKW- Building on the Hierarchy In his futurist article [2], Harlan Cleveland concedes that information scientists are “still struggling with the definitions of basic terms”.
	engweb.gre.ac.uk /sm11/Main/ITMB/DIKWHeirarchy.doc (2423 words)

	destinationKM.com: Introducing KM to the CEO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although it may seem that we are now introducing our own jargon and unnecessary complexity ourselves, the DIKW framework makes the knowledge management process accessible to the business executive, avoids the ambiguity of words and terms that can mean anything to anybody and is standards based.
		Unfortunately, we are now seeing the DIKW acronym being used in a vacuum, without this understanding.
		So the next time you run into your CIO in the coffee room, cough discreetly and ask him what he is going to do about the knowledge-mechanism entropy in shipping.
	destinationkm.com /articles?ArticleID=644&...++AND+corporation (1468 words)

	G as in Good H as in Happy: Media Comments from Sisyphus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tim, at Sisyphean Musings, is on a news-rhetoric roll, with a series of comments based on DIKW information theory -- the Data / Information / Knowledge / Wisdom hierarchy.
		Update: Maybe there is a little something to the controversy and the crisis of confidence in the MSM, a little currency, after all.
		DIKW gives a layered texture to the content we might find on the pages of a newspaper or on our TV screens.
	goodandhappy.typepad.com /g_as_in_good_h_as_in_happ/2005/04/media_comments_.html (705 words)

	Plausible Futures Newsletter
		Data is what we experience in a context, directly or through some proxy, like a scientific instrument, video camera, conversation with another person; watching a rock fall off of a ledge is a good example--you can watch it in person, film it, or get told about it.
		Moving all this DIKW 'stuff' around is what the net is supposed to be all about.
		Computer technology has enhanced and partially automated the DIKW process, augmenting the limited human abilities to differentiate, filter, and make sense of the mass of data and processes embodied in the net.
	www.plausiblefutures.com /cparticle55153-6693.html (3777 words)

	Gautam Ghosh on Management: DIKW and its origins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		KM practitioners might be interested in the origin of the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy...commonly known as "Knowledge Hierarchy"
		Well, Nikhil Sharma says that the origin might well be decades even before we thought.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	gauteg.blogspot.com /2004/12/dikw-and-its-origins.html (185 words)

	Digital Common Sense: Zen of Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Data is the commoditiy we move around the network.
		Metadata is data about the data.Metadata about data, is also data that follows the DIKW model.
		When you're dealing with supermetadata, you're in a universe where you don't know what you don't know about what you don't know.
	www.ipadventures.com /blog/archives/000709.html (468 words)

	IIPM Publication, IIPM Editorials, IIPM New Delhi, IIPM India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Both, Information Science and Knowledge Management, have separately focussed on the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Hierarchy (DIKW) known to each discipline as the Information Pyramid and the Knowledge Pyramid respectively (Interestingly the first mention of the DIKW hierarchy is credited not to an information scientist but to the poet T.S. Eliot).
		In short, at present, human beings are required to create and apply knowledge, and although they may be invaluable in the manipulation and delivery of data, information and knowledge, computers are of no help at all vis-à-vis the creation of knowledge.
		Anyone with unfettered access to the internet can search for instructions on how to build several varieties of weapons of mass destruction, some of which will be knowledge first acquired by scientists working on the Manhattan project.
	www.iipm.edu /iipm-editorial-25.html (1006 words)

	DIKW
		The addition of Metabolic Vision collection expands the applications of PathwayStudio and PathwayExpert to include microbial pathway analysis for basic, medical and industrial microbiology, and food and environmental research in addition to mammalian pathway analysis.
		There is probably no segment of activity in the world attracting as much attention at present as that of knowledge management.
		Recent papers added to msn's library classified by the tag dikw.
	www.dikw.info (919 words)

	Knowledge-at-work: DIKW
		There is no clear progression and no real hierarchy in the DIKW sequence, rather a context dependent recursion.
		There can be a reversion, if you become aware that the context has changed, e.g.
		In their drive to integrate they are ignoring that knowledge is local and they are taking knowledge and recontextualizing it as global information, thus throwing away the semantics of the knowledge they traffic in.
	denham.typepad.com /km/2003/12/dikw.html (553 words)

	Ackoff Center Weblog: Blogger Search Archives
		If you're not taking your users up the top tiers, you might be missing the chance to give them more inspiring (cognitively arousing?) experiences.
		The idea (and a zillion variations including mine) of the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy has been going around for quite some time (especially in knowledge management circles), but how come everyone isn't paying more attention to it?!
		Some are, of course--Richard Saul Wurman in particular, has made a point of referring to his work as "the understanding business", rather than stopping with information or even knowledge.
	ackoffcenter.blogs.com /ackoff_center_weblog/blogger_search (512 words)

	Innovation in Information Technology
		This in the context of the DIKW heirarchy is a move to adding more value to the end-user of the application; by adding as much as context to the data as possible.
		I am keen to adopting and utilising all the skills involved in becoming a Information Architect.
		Implications of viewing the DIKW chain in the reverse direction(pdf)
	infomatters.wordpress.com (537 words)

	SIGIA-L Mail Archives
		This formulation is affectionately known as DIKW (Ackoff's "understanding"
		systems analyst, big-T IA) for the last 20 years, I've let DIKW be my guide.
		I practice converting data as far up the food chain as possible, with wisdom
	www.info-arch.org /lists/sigia-l/0411/0304print.html (319 words)

	Fueling the Fire
		One of the key principles of those fields is the DIKW Hierarchy first developed by Russell Ackoff, the idea that human minds (ideally) interact with the world and progress through what they find in a hierarchical process, from Data to Information to Knowledge to Wisdom (Ackoff also adds Understanding, but not everyone does).
		This makes sense to me, and it helps me think about my own day-to-day education so I'm always asking myself some pretty important questions: How valuable is this data?
		If you think about it, the DIKW Hierarchy also defines the job of security pros.
	www.securityfocus.com /columnists/271 (1338 words)

	Searcher's Voice - Time for Wisdom
		The other day I was chatting with a colleague about that most optimistic of acronyms — DIKW.
		In the best of all possible worlds, D (Data) would smoothly flow into I (Information), which would in turn glide into K (Knowledge), which would finally emerge as W (Wisdom).
		Even the pursuer of wisdom looks, whenever possible, to do good and to do well.
	www.infotoday.com /SEARCHER/jul01/voice.htm (822 words)

	Creating Passionate Users: Moving up the wisdom hierarchy
		And fortunately, even those focused on information architecture and information design often consider knowledge and understanding as well as information.
		Kathy Sierra has some wonderful information on the wisdom hierarchy model, known in Knowledge Management circles as the DIKW hierarchy (Data - Information - Knowledge - Wisdom).
		I've seen people use the DIKW pyramid and with a straight face actually believe they could do wisdom management.
	headrush.typepad.com /creating_passionate_users/2006/04/moving_up_the_w.html (3286 words)

	Definition of Key Terms
		Another paper on the origins of the Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom Hierarchy (DIKW) by Nikhil Sharma was found at http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~nsharma/dikw_origin.htm
		Data - data are raw symbols (the display of a digital thermometer reads 98.6 deg-F, which can be directly encoded in ASCII, Unicode, etc.)
		Two other levels of the Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy are Understanding (or Expertise) and Wisdom:
	www.fiatech.org /projects/roadmap/keywords.html (1714 words)

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