A human instinct seems to support collection. It may have originated from collection of food and collecting for the hard times…but… the collection seems to progress into other objects. A visit to the beach implies collection of shells. Why? It is not clear why any individual collects. Some of it has to do with shiny objects or objects that seems attractive. Collecting shells is easy, but this grows into collection of paintings, cars, precious objects. The collecting continues as an instinct and it has value too – collection of history and remembrance. Museums in cities collect precious objects and people go to see the objects in a museum.
But does this object has to be physically objects to collect? No, it can be anything. For example gamer’s on computers collect virtual objects in a game.
What about collection of data? Are there data hoarders that collect data? If digital pictures are consider data, then that is certainly collected.
What about other data. Data from physical activity collected by a watch? Collect it. What about other data sets – time the sun sets. It is collected.
Data perhaps fulfills the same human instinct of collection though may not have the tactical feel and there may be a monetary value placed on the data “object” for a new company
