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In this article, we want to demonstrate that data acquisition and processing are not only technical and information problem, but that they have to fulfil some sociological aspects, too.
The data acquisition and processing is the part of a cybernetic system. However, nowadays it is too often identified only with an information processing system itself. Such a contraction is not harmful. However, by perpetuating it we lose a fundamental sense of the activity – it becomes incomprehensible and ‘art for art’s sake’.
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Klempous, R., Lysakowska, B., Nikodem, J. (2000). Sociological Aspects of Data Acquisition and Processing. In: Kopacek, P., Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST’99. EUROCAST 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1798. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10720123_27
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