If we regard the management of cultural heritage as an objective for the conservation field, we might describe conservation as a more or less complex societal system. Information has in this respect a vital role as a regulation of systems, such as the conservation system. Information has the objective to increase organization, regulation and control of a system and could thus be described as an information sub-system within the parent system. Hence information can be seen as an instrument in the decision making process within a system. This physical representation facilitates the process of knowing.
Information is a subset of data.
Intelligence implies an active involvement and understanding and the ability to extend the levels of understanding to meet life's contingencies. Intelligence is a subset of information. The second level is concerned with development of models for interventions meeting questions on how interventions should be performed. The third level focuses on what should be subject for interventions based on a valorization of the cultural heritage out of existing information and performed recordings. The forth level finally discusses on why cultural heritage should be subject for decisions on lower levels in conservation management.