Though the conceptual meaning of the term depends on the discipline, the way I understand it is that, digitization is related and concerned with information. While computerization is related to processes. so we digitized information from analog to digital and computerized the process from manual to computer-based. On the other hand, Informatization has to do with society. We say informed society where information is flowed.

Digitization means describing things by numbers recorded on a digital medium in a format commonly understood by computers.

In my opinion, Digitization is the process of converting the print documents, photos, videos and other formats into digital format. Digitization helps sharing them via networks and also for preservation for future.

Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital format

Dear Usman Ahmed Adam,

Thank you very much for your valuable reply to my question. Unfortunately, not all is clear to me in your answer. In particular, you wrote, "we digitized information from analog to digital." But what is analog, and what is digital? For example, is DOC format analog or digital? BMP format? EPS format? TEX format? Besides, the definition of digitization as transmission to digital format looks to me like a vicious circle. Could you clarify these passages from your statement?

Dear @Anna Małgorzata Kamińska,

Thank you very much for your valuable reply to my question. Unfortunately, not all is clear to me in your answer. For example, what does it mean to describe things by numbers? How to describe this glass of tea by numbers? And by which numbers? Natural, whole, rational, real, complex, hypercomplex? What does it mean "recorded on a digital medium"? My texts in TEX format and placed on the Internet are recorded on the digital medium? Why?

Could you clarify these things?

Thank you in advance!

Dear G. Rathinasabapathy,

Thank you very much for your valuable reply. Unfortunately, not all in it is clear to me. The main question, what is the digital format? And what is most important to me, is TEX format digital? Why?

Could you clarify these things?

Thank you in advance!

Dear Luma Saad Abdalbaqi,

Thank you very much for your valuable reply. I think everybody will agree that digitization is the process of converting something into a digital format. But the question arises what is this digital format? Is DOC format digital? PDF format? PS format? And, what is most important to me, TEX format? Why? Could you clarify these things?

Thank you in advance!

What i mean is that, the two terms share the same meaning in common, which application of technology or computer. If the subject is information it reffers as digitization and if its process reffer as computerization. It is also good to know the root of the terms shared one thing in common which number, as digitization is derived from digital which is a number reffering to the system that understands only two numbers. While computerizarion derived from compute which is counting numbers.

Digitization is the process of cording facts, observations etc. so that computer can understand and deal with it, while computerization is the process of authomating the process so that computer can execute it.

The different is as i said ealier: digitization used to be carried out on information while computerization used for automating or executing specific process.

Dear Aslanbek Naziev,

Thanks for your reply. Digital format may be any. It may be Text, DOC, PDF in case of Text. In case of images, it may be JPG, BMP, PNG, etc while for video, it may be MPEG, etc., For audio files, it may be .WAV, etc. The format may be different depending upon the content viz., text, image, audio, video. But, if it is available in machine readable format i.e. digits, it is known as digitized or digitalized. This is my reply to your question. Hope I have cleared your doubt.

Dear Usman Ahmed Adam,

Your answer is very interesting but I am not sure that I understand the difference between the cases when a computer can understand and can deal with something. Excuse me for my persistence, but I need to understand this, not only to say some words about this.

Thank you!

Dear G. Rathinasabapathy,

Thank you for your answers. Excuse me for my persistence, but again not all is clear to me in your last response. You write, "The format may be different depending upon the content viz., text, image, audio, video. But, if it is available (boldface is mine. -- AN) in a machine-readable format, i.e., digits, it is known as digitized". What "it," content, or format? And what does it mean to be available? Content in VGA format is known to be analog, but due to simple devices, it is available in HDMI format known as digital.

Excuse me again for my persistence, but I genuinely need to understand this, not merely to hear (or to say) some words.

Thank you in advance!

Understand here means to recognise (as being a text, image or vedio) and deal with means to manuplate it so that it can suit the context. I hope i am making sense...

In a nutshell, digitization refers to transformation of facts, observations etc. to a certain format so that computer can reconise and manupulate. And computerization reffers to automating process and prosedures so that computer can execute them. While informatization is the widespread of the transformed facts, etc among people in a society. Thats how i understand the three terms.

Hi again Aslanbek Naziev ,

thank you for your question.

The answer is quite simple, however. It is all about the aim of a given digitalization process. Digitization may be called as building digital models. Model by definition means representing a real object from a certain (relevant) perspective while hiding real object properties that are irrelevant. So, for example, for ones, the digitization of handwriting content would mean to care only about the meaning of the text, while for the others would mean to preserve the shape of characters. For others, the chemical composition of the ink would matter, and yet for others the depth of the groove that the nib left behind.

But we are touching the topic of building models here (not only digital models) and your question was about digitization strictly.

Regarding the second consideration, the simplest answer will be - in general after digitization things are described by binary numbers ;) All other numbers and metrics are at the end represented most often by binary code.

Best regards!

Dear Anna Małgorzata Kamińska,

Thank you for your answer, which you yourself called 'simplest.' According to this answer, digitization of mathematics teaching consists of building a digital model of mathematics teaching, that is, of a classroom, of students, of teacher, and of mathematics itself. It is very doubtful to me that these models can be produced, that they can be useful in teaching, and that precisely this meaning has expression `digitization of mathematics teaching.' Let me share with you one secret, namely, that the 'simplest' answers to hard questions rarely have a chance to be correct. Thank you for your readiness to help!

Sincerely!

Dear Aslanbek Naziev

unfortunately you misunderstood me, probably my explanation was not clear enough. I claim you mistakenly combine two different topics, which could mislead readers. Your primary question was about digitization, but after that you are raising the topics about selecting the set of properties of the original that should be digitized.

This is not the concern of digitization itself. Please notice that this set of properties could and even should be different depending on for what we want to used digitization process outcome.

And what you try to show as limitation is in fact great benefit. When we want to read book on book reader it is enough to encode all characters from the source text, that results in a lean file. But if we are graphologists and e.g. want to discover the author of the text, then the font shapes matter to us. Then the text must be digitized as an image so that it can be further analyzed. This is just a simple example, but it also extends to the tea brewing or teaching processes you cited.

As I mentioned earlier the aim is the key, not the subject being digitized itself.

In summary I would keep my first definition of digitization that I consider as concise and complete, and your side topics redirect to specific communities that specialize in brewing tea or transferring knowledge ;)

Best regards

Dear Anna Małgorzata Kamińska,

Thank you very much for your last message.

Unfortunately, it is not ME who misunderstands you; it is YOU who misunderstands you. Yes-yes, you misunderstand yourself. Judge yourself.

In your last message you wrote,

" Your primary question was about digitization, but after that, you are raising the topics about selecting the set of properties of the original that should be digitized."

I was not able to find the places where I am "raising the topics about selecting the set of properties of the original that should be digitized."

"This is not the concern of digitization itself", write you.

But who is talking about digitization ITSELF? Who need it? Even you, at the very beginning of your first message, wrote

"Digitization means describing THINGS..."

I cannot imagine such a thing as digitization ITSELF. Digiti-zation, by the very structure of this word, must be digitization OF SOMETHING. And even you wrote about this in your previous messages. Try to find the places where you did this.

Thank you very much for your attempts to help me. It is not so important that your attempts were unsuccessful. In any case, I am grateful to you.

Sincerely yours,

Aslanbek Naziev