"data item"@en . "PERSON: Chris Stoeckert"@en . "2009-03-16: data item deliberatly ambiguous: we merged data set and datum to be one entity, not knowing how to define singular versus plural. So data item is more general than datum."@en . "JAR: datum -- well, this will be very tricky to define, but maybe some\ninformation-like stuff that might be put into a computer and that is\nmeant, by someone, to denote and/or to be interpreted by some\nprocess... I would include lists, tables, sentences... I think I might\ndefer to Barry, or to Brian Cantwell Smith\n\nJAR: A data item is an approximately justified approximately true approximate belief"@en . "a data item is an information content entity that is intended to be a truthful statement about something (modulo, e.g., measurement precision or other systematic errors) and is constructed/acquired by a method which reliably tends to produce (approximately) truthful statements."@en . . "data"@en . . "PERSON: Alan Ruttenberg"@en . "2009-03-16: removed datum as alternative term as datum specifically refers to singular form, and is thus not an exact synonym."@en . . "2/2/2009 Alan and Bjoern discussing FACS run output data. This is a data item because it is about the cell population. Each element records an event and is typically further composed a set of measurment data items that record the fluorescent intensity stimulated by one of the lasers."@en . "PERSON: Jonathan Rees"@en . . "Data items include counts of things, analyte concentrations, and statistical summaries."@en . "Data Item"@en .