struktuuritud

Struktuuritud is an Estonian adjective meaning structured or having a defined structure. It describes things that are organized according to a recognizable arrangement or schema. The term is used across domains such as information technology, data science, linguistics, and document management to characterize data, texts, or systems that conform to a specific structure rather than being free-form or unorganized. In practice, struktuuritud data, for example, follows a schema or data model, enabling consistent parsing, querying, and analysis. This contrasts with mittestruktuuritud or unstructured data, which lacks a predefined model and is harder to automatically process.

The word is formed from the noun struktuur (structure) with the suffix -itud, yielding an adjective that denotes the result or property of having been structured. There is a related verb form, struktuureerida, whose participial form may appear as struktureeritud in some contexts, but struktuuritud remains common in standard usage when referring to the quality of structure rather than the act of structuring.

In practical use, struktuuritud describes not only data but also documents, processes, and even texts that exhibit a clear, rule-governed organization. Examples include struktuuritud andmed (structured data) suitable for databases and analytics, struktuuritud dokument (structured document) such as XML- or JSON-based formats, and, in scientific or methodological writing, references to struktuuritud metoodika or struktuuritud intervjuu, depending on stylistic conventions.

See also: structured data, unstructured data, data schema, information architecture.