The information school stores about me is kept in a record as part of a database Each piece of information they keep about me is stored in a field Two examples of fields used by school
to store my information are gender and age Height- Real
Gender- Boolean Est age- Integer Hair colour- Alphanumeric Eye colour- Alphanumeric •On it’s own 110913 means nothing – it’s just a piece of data. •You need to add format/structure and context to data for it to make sense – this gives the data Meaning. •For example: -110913 = data -11/09/13 = data with format/structure which now tells us this is a date -11/09/13 = this is the date of the ICT exam next year if we know what data means we have information data + meaning = information |