data — definition (E-Discovery)

E-Discovery

A representation of facts, concepts, or instructions in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing by humans or by automatic means. Any representations such as characters or analog quantities to which meaning is, or might be, assigned.

AmDoc — AmDoc Glossary of Terms

Information stored on the computer system and used by applications to accomplish tasks.

Renew Data — RenewData eDiscovery Glossary

Technology› Programming

Java

The contents of an element in an XML stream, generally used when the element does not contain any subelements. When it does, the term content is generally used. When the only text in an XML structure is contained in simple elements and when elements that have subelements have little or no data mixed in, then that structure is often thought of as XML data, as opposed to an XML document.

Sun Microsystems — Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 1.4 Glossary

Technology

Records Management

Symbols or characters that represent raw facts or figures and form the basis of information

ARMA — Glossary of Records and Information Management Terms, 3rd Edition

any form of information in any medium; in information technology it applies particularly to files that contain such material as database tables, text documents, images, or digitally-encoded audio or video.

Tennessee State Library and Archives — Glossary of Archival Language for Archives in Tennessee

Technology

Telecommunications

1. Representation of facts, concepts, or instructions in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing by humans or by automatic means. Any representations such as characters or analog quantities to which meaning is or might be assigned. [JP 1-02] 2. Representations of facts, concepts or instructions in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation or processing by human and/or automatic means. Note: The interpretation of data as information requires a convention (e.g. language) [CESG]. 3. Information with a specific physical representation [TCSEC].

ATIS — ATIS Telecom Glossary 2007