information, especially facts or numbers, collected to be examined and considered and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by a computer

The data was/were collected by various researchers. 这些信息是由各类研究人员收集起来的。

Now the data is/are being transferred from magnetic tape to hard disk. 现在这些数据正从磁带转存到硬盘。