For all responses from Edge.org to the question "What will change everything?" go to The World Questions Center 2009 . Here, many intellectuals from around the globe adress the question of "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" ROGER C...

by Martin Frické Abstract : The paper evaluates the data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy. This hierarchy, also known as the 'knowledge hierarchy', is part of the canon of information science and management. Arguments are offered that the hierarchy is unsound and methodologically...

This paper revisits the data-information-knowledge- wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy by examining the articulation of the hierarchy in a number of widely read textbooks, and analysing their statements about the nature of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom . The hierarchy referred to variously as the 'Knowledge...