Posted by Mezei on March 02, 1998 at 20:46:47:

In Reply to: Re: Bits/Bytes and data/information/knowledge management posted by Robbert Northolt on March 02, 1998 at 09:23:06:

Tacit information is information that has yet to be discovered. It's a good point. Yet to be discovered....or yet to be made explicit sounds the same, doesn't it? So tacit information is the as-yet-unrealized information potential that subsists within our information base. How do we mine that source? This is one of the questions I'm trying to answer: can we define beyond yet to be discovered exactly what 'tacit information' and 'tacit data' is? For example, is tacit information is yet to be uncovered, are we dealing with a layer that is below the layer of knowledge, but the process of discovery is the same? Information in that case is the medium, like knowledge and data are the medium.

If tacit knowledge is based on intuition and feeling, is tacit info based on some kind on intuitive feel as well? Perhaps when we direct our attention outward rather than inward, then the switch to finding the tacit awareness outside of us is the only difference between info and knowledge.

Don

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