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Saturday, December 20, 2003  

Unstructured Information Management by Robert D. Kugel of IntelligentBPM
http://www.intelligentbpm.com/feature/2003/12/0312feat2_1.shtml

This white paper, from Ventana Research, offers a lucid explanation of what "unstructured information" actually means, and why it will consume a significant amount of IT resources in the coming years. Structured data is the easily classified stuff -- names, addresses, zip codes, SKU numbers, etc. Unstructured data "does not readily fit into structured databases except as binary large objects (BLOBs)." Examples given include e-mails, multimedia files, document files.... Although these objects may have some structure -- e.g., an e-mail address -- they are not easily classified for storage in a structured format that makes a typical database happy. As the amount of this unstructured data increases exponentially, solutions are being sought; XMLis a big help because of its flexible tagging system. If this data cannot be efficiently stored and retrieved, it has little or no utility. The white paper identifies six potential components of a viable storage system: document management, Web content management, records management, digital rights management, collaboration, and image capture. All of these elements are emerging as critical, especially in light of today's more stringent regulatory environment (i.e., Sarbanes-Oxley) which dictates compliance standards for information retention. (Current Cities December 2003)

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