Upwards to 85% of all business information is in an unstructured or semi-structured data format such as documents, emails, spreadsheets, audio and video clips, etc. At this time, research is ongoing within the Commonwealth Office of Technology’s Division of Data Architecture to develop a strategy to deal with the numerous sources of unstructured and semi-structured data. There are many tools available to assist with this undertaking utilizing the Enterprise Service Bus. Beyond the current use of document storage systems (i.e., GOTSource) for internal agency-level storage of documents, COT will further evaluate this subject in the near future and make recommendations on how to proceed.
Kentucky is a national leader in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and will continue to be on the cutting edge. Kentucky GIS enterprise data standards can be found at http://gotsource.ky.gov/dsweb/Get/Document-9404/4030+-+Geographic+Information+Systems+-+Data+Standards.doc. Other GIS related information can be found at the Kentucky Division of Geographic Information website.