A Totally New IT Information Modeling Choice

Strong and schemaless verses soft schemas is the new choice in IT structured information modeling and strong means that IT solutions can now be just as smart as a pencil and paper for all practical publishing purposes. That’s ten to a hundred times smarter that the schema modeling typically done today and this huge improvement opens up all kinds of new opportunities practical information sharing and searching innovation. The strong and schemaless choice is the basis for all the exceptional advantages of the SchemaLess.Net System.

Everyone in IT knows that structured information modeling starts by choosing the best way to reinvent information using schemas and there are many ways to do this in data, knowledge, and software engineering. Even the terminologies and taxonomies used in keyword search indexing are actually schemas and all schemas always destroy most of the rich composition structure that gives documents their editorial strength of meaning. IT modeling professionals never mourn this loss of meaning because everyone’s gotten used to the notion that all IT information models are always editorially soft so no IT professional every got fired for misplacing some surplus meaning.

Now there’s a totally new structured information modeling choice that always preserves all the editorial strength of documents and it’s this strength that provides the searching and sharing power of practical information. Yet this new choice is really a very old choice because it been used for a century in the publishing world when editors want to understand and use all the intrinsic structural strength of practical information to maximize the power, precision, and portability of publication meaning. Editors get paid to maximize the practical meaning strength of publications and they sometimes use sophisticated editorial systems to make sure that meaning doesn't go missing.

The new schemaless structured information modeling choice is borrowed lock, stock, and barrel from the publishing world so it’s a choice that comes from imitation rather than innovation. Schemaless information modeling is done with plain old practical English in just the same way as document modeling is done so all the extreme extra effort and expense of schema modeling is eliminated. Everyone is already a strong schemaless information modeling expert because that what we always do with documents and everyday editorial skills are always sufficient.

If it ain’t broken don’t fix it. This simple gem of conventional wisdom is the best way to explain the huge advantage of schemaless over schemas. Documents are a prefect modeling medium for all practical purposes because they always lets us say all that we mean and mean all that we say in the simplest possible way. Schemas make it hard to say anything meaningful because they always begin by throwing away the structural perfection of practical information meaning and starting over with a whole new set of simplistic structures such as set-relational structures that never work very well. For decades computer science researchers have been trying to perfect the schema by inventing new structures that work better than those we use in documents but nearly no progress has been made and this is futile since you can’t hope to improve on perfection. Schemaless always uses the full intrinsic perfection of practical information structures found in documents to the best publishing advantage and is the best we can every hope to do as well as all that we ever really need to do for any practical purpose.