Re: Resiliency To New Data Requirements

JOG wrote:
> [Boehm 1978] 'structuredness' used by in relation to programming.
> [Codd 1979] referred to structured (formatted) data.
> [Belkin et al. 1992] referred to "unstructured or semistructured
> data" for information retrieval
> [Quass et al. 1995] referring to data with highly irregular schema.
> [Abiteboul 1997] cemented the terminology in "Querying
> semi-structured data"
> etc..
>
> Be warned however, although several of the above papers popularized the
> terminology, most of the work done with unstructured/semi-structured
> data will make anyone versed in database theory feel distinctly faint.

Thanks, I will look at the above. I thought the terminology was fairly ill-defined. Is it in the same state as O-O, where there are various theories but nothing cohesive or consistently applied? Or has there been something resembling a convergence among "experts"?

• erk