Providing Structure to Unstructured Data
Outline
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde
Background
In the early days of computing, data was always highly structured. All data was divided into fields, the fields had a fixed length, and the data entered into each field was constrained to a predetermined set of allowed values. Data was entered into punch cards, with preconfigured rows and columns. Depending on the intended use of the cards, various entry and read-out methods were chosen to express binary data, numeric data, fixed-size text, or programming instructions (see ...
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