Monday, October 03, 2005
Information Relationships
The identification of relationships between information elements - hinted at in the link diagram below - is critical to an understanding of information ecology, just as the replationship between of species in a natural ecosystem with other species and with their habitats, and an appreciation of information relationships and the context of information is vital to an appreciation of the value and meaning of information.
Incidentally, the link diagram below - complex as it may appear - greatly simplifies the web of relationships that are embodied in MyPalace. Firstly it only conveys that a relationship exists between information in separate data panels/files, and in many cases there are multiple relationships; secondly, the diagram does not show relationships within a single panel, and in a number of the panels - for example water bodies - contain a series of cascading relationships between records in a single panel/file that I will talk about in an upcoming post.
The use of cascading links can also bring into significance and focus the body of data within which a single record exists, and with the use of the windows feature of DataPerfect that allows one to see a set or subset of record that have a relationship with a particular record.
Incidentally, the link diagram below - complex as it may appear - greatly simplifies the web of relationships that are embodied in MyPalace. Firstly it only conveys that a relationship exists between information in separate data panels/files, and in many cases there are multiple relationships; secondly, the diagram does not show relationships within a single panel, and in a number of the panels - for example water bodies - contain a series of cascading relationships between records in a single panel/file that I will talk about in an upcoming post.
The use of cascading links can also bring into significance and focus the body of data within which a single record exists, and with the use of the windows feature of DataPerfect that allows one to see a set or subset of record that have a relationship with a particular record.
