Channel: Unstructured Data - Christine Connors 
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Christine Connors
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Unstructured data refers to the wealth of information that exists outside an organization's databases. Text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, emails, instant messages – all of these are considered "unstructured." The term itself causes a bit of trouble as any object "born digital" has some structure to it. This channel will help bring clarity and insight.Unstructured data is critical in project management, decision making, intelligence gathering and news dissemination. Project and product documentation, press releases, financial releases – most of that data is text. Much of it is created in tools not optimized for the task: status updates in a spreadsheet, decision charts in presentation software. Integrating new, task-specific tools with legacy systems is often cited as a deterrent. This channel will monitor the tech landscape to help you identify new options for systems and education.
Traditionally the realm of search engines, natural language processing, XML and document management systems, "unstructured data" now has mature options for content management, digital asset management, customer relationship management and advanced database administration.
As channel expert I will explore tools, frameworks and standards for deploying and evolving to mature unstructured data solutions. I welcome questions, comments, suggestions at cjmconnors@triviumrlg.com.
- Biography Christine, Principal of TriviumRLG, has extensive experience in taxonomy, ontology and metadata design and development. Prior to forming TriviumRLG, Christine was the global director, semantic technology solutions for Dow Jones, responsible for partnering with business champions across Dow Jones to improve digital asset management and delivery. In that position, she managed a worldwide team responsible for the development of taxonomies, ontologies and metadata that are used to add value to Dow Jones news and financial information products. She also served as business champion for the Synaptica software application, including managing a US-based team of software developers, and supported Dow Jones consulting practices worldwide, which deliver end-to-end information access solutions based on taxonomies, metadata and semantic technologies. Prior to joining Dow Jones Ms. Connors was a knowledge architect at Intuit, where she was responsible for introducing semantic technologies to online content management and search. And before that, she was a Metadata Architect at Raytheon Company and Cybrarian at CEOExpress Company. At Raytheon Company she oversaw knowledge representation and enterprise search, delivering large-scale taxonomies, metadata schema and rules-based classification to improve retrieval of petabytes of internal information via a multivendor retrieval platform. She may be contacted by email at cjmconnors@triviumrlg.com.
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