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Digital entities are 'images of reality,' made of: data, the bit (zeros and ones) put on a storage system; information, the semantics used to assign semantic meaning to the data; knowledge, the structural relationships described by a data model. ¶ E

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Digital entities are 'images of reality,' made of: data, the bit (zeros and ones) put on a storage system; information, the semantics used to assign semantic meaning to the data; knowledge, the structural relationships described by a data model. ¶ Every digital entity requires information and knowledge to correctly interpret and display.

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Moore 2003

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology