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Information management plans, builds, runs and monitors the practices, projects
and capabilities that acquire, control, protect, deliver and enhance the value of data
and information assets, in alignment with the direction set by the data and
information governance body. Section 2.1.5 further distinguishes the terms.
Information and data management have been topics of both study and practice for
How can one guide many decades, and a number of principles and good practices have been identified
deal with all types that persist regardless of the type of information. Chapter 3 includes a rich and yet
of information? sufficiently high-level model for information that is capable of dealing with all types
of information.
Many topics are deliberately not included in this document because they require a
What topics about level of detail beyond its scope, such as: solutions architecture, logical and physical
information are not data modelling at a practice level; solutions design, including choice of database
included in this guide? management system (DBMS); implementation and operation of DBMS; detailed
business practices to help govern and manage information.
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: Enabling Information
Information Attributes
Information Attributes
The world where all
phenomena that can be Physical World Layer The attribute that identifies the physical carrier of the
empirically observed Information Carrier/Media information (e.g., paper, electric signals, sound waves)
take place
Pragmatic Layer The attribute that identifies how long information can be
Retention Period retained before it is destroyed
The rules and structures
for constructing larger Pragmatic Layer The attribute that identifies whether the information is
language structures that Information Status operational or historical
fulfil specific purposes The attribute that identifies whether the information
in human communication. Pragmatic Layer creates new knowledge or confirms existing knowledge
Pragmatics refers to the Novelty (i.e., information vs. confirmation)
use of information.
The attribute that identifies the information that is
Pragmatic Layer required to precede this information (for it to be
Contingency considered as information)
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: Enabling Information
The COBIT 5 Information Model
Use
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