Wikidata:WikiProject Informatics/Data

Purpose

To resolve issues concerning the digital (and sometimes analog) representation (in hardware or software) of real-world pieces of information such as numbers, text, speech, graphics, color and time as fundamental data types: Bits, bytes, words, vectors, arrays, sets, sequences, and more complex structures.

Subtopics

• Types
• Representation
• Storage
• Transfer
• Security

Issues

1. Compare data type and information class hierarchies to detect confused classes.
2. Sort out data transfer concepts (input and output)