 Although it is uncertain when and by whom those relationships were first presented, the ubiquity of the notion of a hierarchy is embedded in the use of the acronym DIKW as a shorthand representation for the data-to-information-to-knowledge-to-wisdom transformation.while many authors agreed that DIKW, at least IKW, originated from the play The Rock by T. S. Eliot in 1934.The play contains wisdom-knowledge-information in the following lines