Post #1971314

Hey, computer science people. Is there an established CS term for "the shape of data" or "the gestalt of data" in the context of: I want to represent certain facts, and can do this in a variety of ways, like as relational tables, or as a tree, or normalized and not normalized and indexed every which way, but all of these are equivalent in terms of what facts they represent. How do I ask, for example: which of those ... is the best for my application?