This document presents Information Scientific Axioms proposed by DI Franz Plochberger. It defines three axioms: 1) Data describe an Object, 2) Information is the content of an Object or Data that is interesting to a Human Being, and 3) The value of Data is given by their included Information. It also outlines three Information Scientific Postulates: 1) Human Orientation of IT, 2) The Principle of Continuity, and 3) The need for more scientific differentiation of the word "Information". The document aims to provide foundational concepts for developing a unified theory of information grounded in nature and useful across scientific disciplines.

1. Information Scientific Axioms
Foundations for HO (Human Orientation) of IT
DI Franz PLOCHBERGER
Information Scientist,
at TU, UNI and WU of Vienna/Austria
http://www.plbg.at
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2. SUBJECT – OBJECT – DATA
The traditional philosophical terms „Subject“ and „Object“ out of Old Greek roots in their original meaning are still valid in our times:
SUBJECT
(= human being, living organism)
notices e.g.
other organisms
items,
artificial systems,
physical data carriers
electro-chemical,
biological energies
letters, numbers,
pictures ...
called all together by one term as an
OBJEKT
(= alive or genuine material)
and may create
living, biological, live,
scripts, notes, IT- or
documentation-,
(all together)
DATA.
Diagramm 1
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3. SUBJECT - INFORMATION - SUBJECT
SUBJECT
human being, living organism
gets
INFORMATION
direct
from
indirect from
in predefined
structures
about
by direct
dialog
OBJECT (living or material)
about
direct in
in form of
INFORMATION
stores
SUBJECT
human being, living organism
Diagramm 2
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DATA
fact, organism, item
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in new
created
notifications

4. Information Scientific Axioms (IA)
First publication: F.PLOCHBERGER (2012)
The way of thinking is bottom up from practical experiences over decades in IT to theory (Information Sciences, Philosophy). The
mental cut-set seems to be scientifically usable even historically.
The usage of the term axioms is nature scientifically, factually founded. Information Technology (IT) has born them. IT is the nature
scientific (physical , software-systematical) source. A philosophically-logically reasoning between them is not necessary. These axioms
are given assertions. Their content got important in our Information-Century but they are no new constructions. These axioms are
logical true assertions (in the rules of legacy propositional logic).
 IA 1: Data describe an Object.
Date are here divided in only two main groups:
a) written down, materially existing, dead Data
b) living Data, in living data carriers = organisms
Between a) and b ) one single connecting subset is helpful: “1:1-Data”, “Natural Data” or “Documentations”.
Any further structuring has no sense here, because it’s too manifold. It’s depending on uncountable applications and objects.
 IA 2: Information is that content of an Object (or of Data) which is interesting for a Human
Being.
By this definition “Information” gets usable uniquely (in our time and historically). The “relation to the Human Being” is a logical
necessity. Indirect Reasoning is definable: No Human Being -> no Information. Human Being is here used as a synonym for all
entities – graduated by their evolution-biologically status. Information is founding a relation of a Human Being to “something
recognized”. Information doesn’t have to be more exactly defined but is so valid as an existing word for something existing.
Data and Information are exactly separable.
 IA 3: The value of Data is given by their included Information.
Advantage of these axioms: General validation in all sciences, especially in Physics too. SHANNONS Information theory evaluates
to an enumerations of Data.
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5. Information Scientific Postulates (IP)
Following Information Scientific Axioms
 IP 1: Human Orientation (HO) of IT
Is the direct consequence of IA2 (necessary relation to human being). User Centered Design (UCD), ISO 9241, Human Computer
Interaction (HCI), Ergonomy et al. are known impacts in actual IT, but in my thinking not enough general or efficient. Mind and
soul got conquered by IT. A new paradigm challenge in our way of thinking – not only by market predefined little steps – is necessary:
The Human Orientation (HO) of IT. The human being in his cognition-evolutionary and biological borders has to be pointed out as most
active agent and as only deciding and creative part of IT.
 IP 2: Principle of Continuity
Source of it is the human Organisation (according to C.MATURANA) and the human agitation. Nerve-systems and blood-circles, the
most important information-carriers in our human organism , have continual principles of operation.
What’s missing? E.g.:
• Incompatible challenges of hard- and software cause economic damages.
• Long-termed maintenance of electronic data got very complex and uncertain by incompatible development breaks of IT-instruments
(computers and media).
•Sociologically inappropriate challenges in working area got important by bad usage of IT: e.g. permanent unemployment and rising
difference between the poor's and the riches seem to be already accepted without generating new anti-strategies.
 IP 3: Using the word Information needs more scientific differentiations to get valid
This word is used very often in our life. We say it for something new , not defined, but interesting . On scientific level it’s therefore also
used very much, but we have to expect a more definitive item for that new thing what’s interesting. Otherwise we lose it again in our
memory. We need at least a new name, differentiated to legacy items or defined in a new way.
Follows direct IA1-3.
Data for their own can be seen as objects too.
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6. Literaturverzeichnis
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Informationswissenschaft, Vortrag im März 2000 an der Humboldt-Universität, Tagungsthema
Organisationsinformatik und Digitale Bibliothek in der Wissenschaft“.
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W. HOFKIRCHNER(1998), Towards a Unified Theory of Information,15e Congrès International de Cybernétique,
Namur 1998, Namur 1999 175-180
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Franz PLOCHBERGER(2011), H.NYQUIST, R.V. HARTLEY und C.E. SHANNON
aus der Sicht der heutigen Informationswissenschaft, Eigenverlag
http://www.plbg.at/Werke/deutsch/NYQUIST,HARTLEY,SHANNON.pdf
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Raphael CAPURRO (1996),Information. New Questions to a Multidisciplinary Concept,Akademie Verlag Berlin 1996,
pp 259-270, Editors: K.KORNWACHS, K.JACOBY
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Raphael CAPURRO, Birger HJORLAND (2003),The concept of Information,
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http://www.plbg.at/Werke/deutsch/Informationswissenschaftliche%20Grundlagen%20und%20Termini.pdf
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K.J. DEVLIN(1992), Logic and Information, Cambridge, 1992, UK, Cambridge University Press
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7. B. O. KÜPPERS (1996), The Context-Dependence of Biological Information, K.KORNWACHS & K. JACOBY (Eds.)
Information. New questions to a multidisciplinary concept (pp. 137-145), Berlin,Germany,1996,Akademie Verlag
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a multidisciplinary concept (pp. 103 - 118), Berlin, Germany, 1996, Akademie Verlag
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F. PLOCHBERGER(2011), Semiotics by Ch.S.PEIRCE and a new Human Orientation Paradigm of IT(HOP-IT)
by F.PLOCHBERGER, http://www.plbg.at/Werke/english/Semiotics%20and%20HOP-IT.pdf
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8. Peter FLEISSNER, Wolfgang HOFKIRCHNER (1995), In-formatio revisited. Wider den dinglichen
Informationsbegriff, Informatik Forum 3/1995, pp 126-131
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Dissertation FU Berlin
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G. KRAUS(1972), Vorlesungsverzeichnis Telegraphie, TU Wien, etwa 1972
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Eigene Home für HO
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Franz PLOCHBERGER (2012), Kontinuität eine neue Forderung der Informationswissenschaft, Eigenverlag, 2011,
http://www.plbg.at/Werke/deutsch/Kontinuit%C3%A4t,%20eine%20neue%20Forderung%20der%20Informationswissenschaft.pdf
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