Strukturoitua

Strukturoitua is a Finnish adjective meaning structured, commonly used in information technology, data management, and documentation to describe information that has been organized according to a defined structure or schema. In practice, strukturoitua data has explicit fields, data types, and relationships, enabling automated processing such as validation, querying, and integration with other data sources. The term contrasts with strukturoimaton (unstructured) data, which lacks a fixed schema, and with semi-structured data, which has some organizational cues but not a rigid schema.

The etymology derives from the word strukturoitu (structured), itself from the Latin structura, and has entered Finnish through technical usage in computing and data management. In contemporary Finnish, strukturoitua may describe documents, datasets, or workflows that follow a template or model. For example, an organization's reporting system may store strukturoitua data in a relational database or as JSON documents that adhere to a schema.

In information management, using strukturoitua information supports data quality, interoperability, and machine readability. Common forms include relational database records, CSV files with defined headers, and JSON or XML documents validated against a schema. Semi-structured formats such as JSON that lack a strict schema are sometimes described as close to strukturoitua, while unstructured material like free text is not. Related concepts include structured data, semi-structured data, unstructured data, data models, and metadata.