Someone, somewhere once said that ECM is about managing unstructured content. That may have been true once upon a long time ago; not anymore...(The actual existence of truly unstructured content is a debate for another day.)
This is the same regardless of whether we are talking about structured data or summarising a collection of unstructured content. The metric for documents could be as simple as a count (for example, the number of policies) or a combination of factors such as the number of processes covered by a particular type of policy
The inability to identify the value in unstructured content is the primary challenge in any application that requires the use of metadata...The need for organizations to access and fully exploit the use of their unstructured content won’t happen overnight
It seems I’m not the only one that doesn’t believe in the myth of unstructured content. Like Sasquatch, Santa Claus, and Ogopogo (CRTC mandated Canadian content), we’ve all heard about it, but have we really seen it?
By marting@conceptsearching.com on March 21, 2013 in Blog , Enterprise Metadata Management , Information Governance At the end of last quarter we surveyed our clients and the general marketplace and asked them their priorities for 2013 as it applies to unstructured content. The results indicated search, migration, and data privacy protection were the applications selected as the highest priorities
But beneath this surface, there exists a wealth of unstructured content in the form of documents, emails, videos and images that many organisations are incapable of organising effectively, and therefore unable to use this wealth of information to the benefit of the business
One of the things that always amazes me is how the proverb “the more things change, the more they stay the same” still applies today in the world where technology and recordkeeping concepts merge. Why are we using the terms “structured data” and “unstructured data...
Clearly this is a great example of the blurring between structured data and unstructured content. And all of the same challenges apply: how to get access, where to archive – across a multitude of different systems
Obviously, this difference is critical from the standpoint of technical management but also in the evaluation and use of an information made of more than 80% of unstructured content!
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