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An increasing amount of data is becoming available electronically to humans and programs. Such data are managed via a large number of data models and access techniques, and may come from relational or object-oriented databases (structured data), or consist of simple collections of text or image files (unstructured data). Many of them can be seen as semistructured: with the term semistructured data we intuitively refer to data whose schema is not fixed in advance, and whose structure may be irregular or incomplete.
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Quintarelli, E. (2004). 1. Introduction. In: Model-Checking Based Data Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2917. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24603-9_1
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