Title: Modelling Semi-Structured Data: An Energy
Conservation Case Study
Abstract: The distinction between structured and
semi-structured data is often associated with relational and XML data models
respectively, but this characterization is becoming harder to support. Survey
data is taken as an example of a complex structure that nevertheless can
be successfully modelled using the relational approach. The problems and
their eventual solution are illustrated using an energy conservation case
study, providing evidence for the view that degree of structure is a property
of real-world data, not a function of the technique used to encode it. The
case study also provides a general solution to the modelling of survey data.
Authors: Kevin J. Wilkinson