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@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

JOG wrote:

> dawn wrote:
>

>>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 Wed Aug 16 2006 - 17:07:08 CDT