Data The lowest level of abstraction from which information and knowledge are derived. Any collection of recorded facts, numbers, or datum of any nature that can be communicated, stored, and ultimately processed, using business rules, to form useful information.

Data Architecture This defines data assets and how they are formatted, organized, moved, used, and stored in an enterprise. It establishes common guidelines for data operations that make it possible to predict, model, measure, and control the flow of data within a system.

Information A combination of data and the application of rules which is managed and then recorded, classified, organized, related, or interpreted within a certain context.

Information Management The exercise of control over the collection, analysis, organization, storage, security, retrieval, and dissemination of the information assets of an enterprise. It includes the definition, value, and utility of those information assets.

Information Architecture The analysis, design, and application of business processes to data assets within information systems, concentrating on entities, their attributes, and their interrelationships. It enables proper information management. Data Model?

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