Chris Gerrard

In the beginning Someone, somewhere, somehow, made one or more marks of some sort on or in some material representing information the person had in mind. The mark, or marks, being information encoded in some persistent media, was data. If at some future time someone saw the mark(s) and

Data is At its core data is simply information that's been recorded in some persistent medium. Humans have been creating data-recording information-since the dawn of human history. Data can be as simple as an atomic value-a single bit, or infinitely complex. Electronic/computer data is information that'