INFORMATIION

Add usable context to data/content and it becomes information

Information = Data + Metadata

• Metadata defines data for user to understand 
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 Metadata

• Metadata definitions are influenced by parameters of data source and user community

Information Management

• Unstructured information needs to be organized and accessible
• For efficiency and effectiveness gains: Proper strategies for digital preservation
• Metadatat drives information strategy
• Metadata = Flexibility = Control
• The difference is not the metadata ...... but how you use the metadata