Features associated with information

This is adapted from previous email discussion following the First IAO workshop, starting an effort to build an Information Artifact Ontology.

Features associated with information

 * 1) Amplification
 * 2) The potential for remote control, action at a distance via communication of various kinds.
 * 3) Preservation over time
 * 4) Small occupation on space of possibilities - related to the Shannon sense of information.
 * 5) Low noise / perfect copyability
 * 6) Formulated in a background language marked by
 * 7) Compositionality, which involves also a high degree of
 * 8) Free associability (providing I follow the rules of grammar (or  analogous rules in music?) I have a gigantic degree of freedom to create new  things which are still language)
 * 9) A distinction between the grammatical and the non-grammatical  (between the well-formed and the ill-formed), resting on widespread  consensus
 * 10) substitutability of synonyms (thus an idea of shared meaning --  whereby it is meaning which gets communicated)
 * 11) Aboutness (every information artifact is intended to be about something)
 * 12) Potential for logical complexity; narrative objects (e.g. journal  articles) always have this.
 * 13) Potential for normativity (some information artifacts convey oughtness,  also governed by logic and aboutness)
 * 14) A certain pattern of interactions among players in an evolutionary setting - Ask Jonathan Rees to make this more precise.
 * 15) Being informative - Jonathan: that which informs

From these we might select from this list to be the building blocks of definitions of Information Artifact or Information Resource