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It is important to present here my current views about information and knowledge in order to make my research more understandable. In literature, these words have many meanings/senses.

INFORMATION

I call the entities that a LIVING-ORGANISM perceives from its environment-stimuli which entities help the organism to survive.
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HUMAN-INFORMATION

I call the "information" of humans. It is located inside our brains.
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CONCEPT

I call the units of human-information that reflect distiguishing entities of our environment and which we associate with a name. The concepts reside in our brains but we can materialize them through their names. Human-information is a network of concepts (CONCEPTUAL-INFORMATION) PLUS images, sounds and other sensesual entities.
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LOGOS

I call the speech/text we create, with the help of our LANGUAGE, that EXPRESSES (maps) conceptual-information. In literature we can see to name as 'information' what I call here logos and human-information.
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KNOWLEDGE

I call USEFULL and TRUE human-information (conceptual or not, scientific or common-sense, theoritical or applied). 2001.02.27
BUT there are NO absolute boundaries in what it is usefull and true. It is not knowledge for you the information about my dinners, but this information is knowledge for my doctor. Also most information it is not true but has a degree of truth etc.
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MY GOAL

is to create a system (the SCS) that will store conceptual-knowledge using the structured-concept-formalism and will present it in any language-logos.
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BACKGROUND:

Unfortunately the above definitions are using undefind concepts that I can't present in a short page like this. But I didn't came overnight to the above views. I'm working these concepts about 15 years now. Follow this link to see just my previous views on information and knowledge, that I presented in the previous version of this page (links doesn't work).