Re: Resiliency To New Data Requirements
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:07:08 GMT
Message-ID: <gGMEg.49134$pu3.578233_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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> No, Marshall is correct. Information such as that on the web is known
> in the scientific literature as Unstructured data. That which comes
> between that and relationally represented data is known as
> Semi-structured data. Definitions are woefully slapdash, but Google
> scholar will supply a whole host of papers on the subject.
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:07:08 GMT
Message-ID: <gGMEg.49134$pu3.578233_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
JOG wrote:
> dawn wrote:
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>>Perhaps there is a theory definition of the word structure that you are >>using to draw the conclusion that the web does not have structured >>data. My take is that a single page can be a node/attribute with a >>value that is the html, for example, with directional paths to other >>nodes for which there are links in the page. Structure, no?
>
> No, Marshall is correct. Information such as that on the web is known
> in the scientific literature as Unstructured data. That which comes
> between that and relationally represented data is known as
> Semi-structured data. Definitions are woefully slapdash, but Google
> scholar will supply a whole host of papers on the subject.
Then again, as Fabian Pascal explains, truly unstructured data is merely noise.
http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/766119.htm http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/1744148.htm Received on Thu Aug 17 2006 - 00:07:08 CEST