Brad RiceWeb Graphic Designer

The University of Akron

What is Structured Data?

What it is

What it’s not

Not Structured Data

Not Structured Data

Unstructured look

Definition of Structured DataData that is consistent and can easily be

reused

Structured Data

Structured Data

Structured Data

Structured Data

Structured Data

Listed Research Tools

Detail of Research Tool

Structured Data formatsDatabase dataSQLXML

RSS, ATOM Standard, RDF, RPC, Open Office XML, etc.

CSV (comma separated values)Any ordered and indexed type of data

SQL

Enlarged view of SQL

XML from mysql

Enlarged view of XML

Organization of Datahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=Tgi1JQGHENI

Using DotCMS to build a structure

Course listing from the data

Course Detail

Field entries

Adding a field

Adding a Course Date field

Newly added field in structure

Backend search for content

Adding the course date to Business

Clicking the Business Course

Detail with newly added date

Some other Structured data

Some other Structured data

Some other Structured data

Some other Structured data

Some other Structured data

Some other Structured data

SummaryWeb content should be organizedThink about breaking your content into

logical chunks of dataThink about making your data portableThink about best practices for sharing your

data