Finding Structure Where It Is Needed

May 25, 2016 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Finding Structure Where It Is Needed

Unstructured data has been a problem for a while. Storing it, managing it, and searching it is a challenge. Information Week brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “7 Ways Semantic Technologies Make Data Make Sense.”

The volume is easily the biggest challenge. As unstructured data piles up, semantic technologies help organizations drive business value through a better understanding of the data they have, its value, and the relationships pieces of information have to each other.

The variety of data is a close second. Many organizations are struggling to derive value from their unstructured data. Semantic technologies can help companies understand all of their data and the value of it, and enable insights that were not available before. Businesses are also using semantic technologies to dig into the weeds and find the specific information they need with speed and flexibility. Semantic data analysis is about identifying the meaning and tone in unstructured text.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.