Значение информационной иерархии для исторической науки

Историческая информатика. Информационные технологии и математические методы в исторических исследованиях и образовании. 2022. № 1. С. 145–149.

Vladimirova A.

In the times of the data revolution, there is an urgent need to address numerous issues on how ongoing transformations of everyday life are influencing society and historians who study it. Thus, publications like “Information: A Historical Companion” are very important as they give our academic community a basis for a discussion on new possible theoretical and methodological backgrounds of historical research. However, while this book contains a range of diversified studies and deep reflections on information and the evolution of its sources, we wonder why among related notions like “data” and “knowledge” there was no place for such a core concept as the “information hierarchy”. Thus, we would like to raise a question on the role of the “DIKW-model” for history and to demonstrate how it could help to solve a common problem in the misuse of terminology. This opinion piece is a part of publications following the meeting dedicated to a discussion of the book “Information: A Historical Companion” organized by the “Historical Informatics” journal on October 26, 2021.

Keywords: историческая наука, методология исторического исследования, methodology of historical research, information hierarchy, DIKW model, data revolution, информационная иерархия, DIKW-модель, революция данных