structured data

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Storage structures for digital-form information
…is useful to distinguish between “structured” data, such as inventories of objects that can be represented by short symbol strings and numbers, and “unstructured” data, such as the natural-language text of documents or pictorial images. The principal objective of all storage structures is to facilitate the processing of data elements…
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…is useful to distinguish between “structured” data, such as inventories of objects that can be represented by short symbol strings and numbers, and “unstructured” data, such as the natural-language text of documents or pictorial images. The principal objective of all storage structures is to facilitate the processing of data elements…
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