Semi-Structured Data Item

A Semi-Structured Data Item is a Data Value Set that contains some Structure to allow for operations on the Data, along with Data Values that contain Text.

• AKA: Semi-Structured Data, Semi-Structured Data Set, Semi-Structured, Semi-Structured Dataset, Semi-Structured Data Entry, Semi-Structured Item.
• Context:
  • It can be have zero or more Semi-Structured Data Records.
  • It can be amenable to some computer processing.
  • It can have Metadata.
• Example(s):
  • A Publication Referencer String, such as "Minton, S(1993 b). Integrating heuristics for constraint satisfaction problems: A case study. In: Proceedings AAAI."
  • An XML File with a large amount of Text
  • An Array in a program with a large amount of Text
  • Some portions of a Wikipedia Webpages, such as the Infoboxes.
  • Some portion of this Research Knowledge Base.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • An Entity Mention, such as a Citation Mention.
  • A Relational Table in an RDBMS with a large number of Text attributes is a Mixed Data Item.
• See: Structured Dataset, Unstructured Dataset, Data Structure.

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