Students' Guide to Information Technology, 2nd Edition

Student's

Guide to Information

Technology

item of data which, in the absence of other information, is quite

meaningless. If as camp leader you were given this item of data -

perhaps over the phone - you would have to do quite a bit of work to

produce from it some meaningful information such as a route map.

Here's the sequence of tasks you would have to carry out:

1

capture

the data which gives the location of the camp site, i.e. obtain

the map reference over the phone

2

store

the data by jotting it down on paper, and

retrieve

it later on

3

process

the data, firstly by relating it to other information (i.e. data

contained on the Ordnance Surve ...