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The source data that is ingested into Community Edition IKANOW is stored as documents, JSON-formatted records comprised of metadata, entities and associations (events).
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Metadata is descriptive information about the documents in Community Edition IKANOW and, in fact, makes up the information architecture of these records.
Metadata can be generated for the various source types that can be ingested by Community EditionIKANOW, including the following: RSS feeds, database records, "office-style" documents, XML objects etc.
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