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Information | Data collated (i.e. collected and combined) to derive meaningful conclusions according to its contextual requirements.1,2
- 1 Information is structured, processed and presented with assigned meaning that improves the reliability of the data acquired.
- 2 Knowledge is gained from contextual information, experiences, and insights that establish a framework for evaluation
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Information model | Description of the organization of information giving structure and meaning (‘semantics’) to an information set. |
Information set | Named collection of information describing or specifying something can or could be pointed at in reality. |
Information storage | Use of recording media to retain information sets. |
Infrastructure asset | Any infrastructure (networks, objects and/or components thereof) with potential or actual value that is owned, operated or controlled by an organization or an economic entity. |
Inspection | On-site examination within the scope of quality control and damage and/or condition assessment, aiming to assess the present condition of a structure. |
Intervention | A general term relating to an action or series of activities taken to preserve or modify the performance and future serviceability of a structure, its components and/or elements.1
1 Intervention options include: structural interventions such as maintenance, rehabilitation (incl. interventions for repair and interventions for upgrading), and demolition, and operational interventions such as inspection, maintenance, monitoring and change of use. |
Investigation (or Survey) | Procedure related to a collecting quantitative information about network, object, component or element, performed in order to determine or identify change of its status of the items in population.1,2
1 Surveying activities may involve document search, inspection, testing and/or monitoring.
2 Alternatively, investigation may be referred to as survey |