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Robert Seiner
Robert (Bob) S. Seiner is recognized as the publisher of The Data Administration Newsletter, LLC – www.TDAN.com - an award winning electronic publication that focuses on sharing information about data, information, content & knowledge management disciplines. Mr. Seiner speaks often at major data management and meta-data management, business intelligence and knowledge management related conferences and user group meetings across the
Mr. Seiner is the President and Principal Consultant of KIK Consulting & Educational Services, LLC – www.KIKconsulting.com - a company that focuses on knowledge transfer and consultative mentoring in the fields of data governance, data stewardship, meta-data management, master data management and data architecture. Beyond knowledge-transfer-focused consulting, Mr. Seiner offers 2-day in-house and public courses on how to build and implement data governance / stewardship programs and meta-data programs. He can be reached at the consulting firm at rseiner@kikconsulting.com
Articles by this Author
Questions Meta-Data Can Answer
- By Robert Seiner
- Published 06/11/2007
- Business , Introductory
- Unrated
The world of information technology has "grown-up" dramatically in the last fifteen years -- the term of my comparably short career. From the days of punching cards and feeding deck readers at midnight at the university computer lab to the world of dot-coms, electronic business, and business intelligence, one might believe that they have seen it all.
But not even close … One can only imagine what the next fifteen years have in store for us. Post-Y2k and for the foreseeable future, the need and speed to manage data, information, and knowledge will (if it has not already) become THE business driver.
A Conceptual Meta-Model for Unstructured Data.
- By Robert Seiner
- Published 08/1/2007
- Implementation & Strategy , Introductory
- Unrated
This article is not intended to define or debate the differences between structured and unstructured data. This author considers structured data to be tabular or delimited by nature and recorded in a file or database table. For the purpose of this article, unstructured data will be referred to as "artifacts". Artifacts includes data/documents/content recorded in electronic format that can be managed and leveraged for the benefit of your company, your customers, your suppliers, etc. Artifacts include word processing files, html files (web pages), project plans, presentation files, spreadsheets, graphics, audio files, video files, emails ... any data that is not in tabular or delimited format. Some people call this recorded knowledge. Some people call this web content. Some people call this data documents as in document management. Everybody calls it valuable. For this article, that is the definition of unstructured data.