American National Standard Dictionary of Information Technology (ANSDIT) (1) defines the term, information technology, as follows:
The art and applied sciences that deal with data and information. Examples are capture, representation, processing, security, transfer, interchange, presentation, management, organization, storage, and retrieval of data and information.
(1.) American National Standard Dictionary of Information Technology (ANSDIT), ANSI X3.172-1996, American National Standards Institute, New York.