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| − | == Types of Knowledge ==
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| − | === Explicit Knowledge ===
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| − | Knowledge exists in either explicit or tacit states. Explicit knowledge is knowledge that has been codified in some way such as scientific journal articles, operating procedures, databases, etc.
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| − | === Tacit Knowledge ===
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| − | Knowledge exists in either explicit or tacit states. Tacit knowledge refers to the knowledge that people carry in their minds. It consists of subjective opinions, intuition, feelings or judgments. People often do not explicitly know about their own knowledge stores.
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| − | === Declarative knowledge ===
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| − | Declarative knowledge can be described like facts, propositions or schemas provide general knowledge about the behavior and functioning of forest ecosystems. It includes episodic knowledge (specific time and place events) and semantic knowledge (facts and general information.
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| − | === Procedural knowledge ===
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| − | Procedural knowledge is about how to do things. The decision making process in natural resource management needs a lot of procedural knowlegde in order to make decisions.
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| − | == Types of Information ==
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| − | Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it. Information is a term with many meanings depending on context. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information See a definition in Wikipedia]
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| − | === Primary Information ===
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| − | Original material that has not been interpreted or analysied.
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| − | Examples: Statistics, Research articles, Blogs, Websites
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| − | === Secondary Information ===
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| − | Created from primary material, interpretating original material.
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| − | Examples: Texbooks, Review articles
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| − | === Tertiary Material ===
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| − | Acts as a tool in understanding and locating information
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| − | Examples: Databases, Subject Gateways, Dictionaries, Bibliographies
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| − | === Information according to the presentation type ===
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| − | written words, heard words, spoken words
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| − | == Types of Data ==
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| − | === Text ===
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| − | === Metadata ===
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| − | === alphabetical Data ===
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| − | Text/String/Character
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| − | === numerical Data ===
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| − | numbers
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| − | === alphanumerical Data ===
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| − | === Logical states ===
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| − | === Date/time/currency ===
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| − | == Types of Symbols ==
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| − | === characters ===
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| − | A, a, B, b, C, c,
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| − | === numbers ===
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| − | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
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