The Case for a Structured Approach to Managing Unstructured Data
Databases
2009-09-15 v1 Information Retrieval
Abstract
The challenge of managing unstructured data represents perhaps the largest data management opportunity for our community since managing relational data. And yet we are risking letting this opportunity go by, ceding the playing field to other players, ranging from communities such as AI, KDD, IR, Web, and Semantic Web, to industrial players such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. In this essay we explore what we can do to improve upon this situation. Drawing on the lessons learned while managing relational data, we outline a structured approach to managing unstructured data. We conclude by discussing the potential implications of this approach to managing other kinds of non-relational data, and to the identify of our field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0909.1783,
title = {The Case for a Structured Approach to Managing Unstructured Data},
author = {AnHai Doan and Jeff Naughton and Akanksha Baid and Xiaoyong Chai and Fei Chen and Ting Chen and Eric Chu and Pedro DeRose and Byron Gao and Chaitanya Gokhale and Jiansheng Huang and Warren Shen and Ba-Quy Vuong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1783},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
CIDR 2009