Metadata management convergence platforms, systems and methods

• US 20050203931A1
• Filed: 03/14/2005
• Published: 09/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert W. Pingree
• Original Assignee: Robert W. Pingree
• Inventors: Pingree, Robert, Beninsig, Frank
• Application Number:
  US11/079,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20050203931A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/83 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/908 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

Metadata management convergence platforms, systems, and methods to organize a community of users'"'"' data records. More specifically, methods managing metadata records related to content housed in unique, disparate or federated holdings in centralized or distributed environments. Also systems and methods for creating and managing metadata records using domain specific language, vocabulary and metadata schema accepted by a community of users of unique, disparate or federated databases in centralized or distributed environments. Such environments can include content repositories including but not limited to: vehicle fleet information systems; government document holdings; insurance and underwriting information holdings; academic library collections; and entertainment archives.

Claims

1. A method to provide a convergence metadata management system comprising the steps of:

establishing at least one metadata schema;

creating at least one metadata record based on the established at least one metadata schema;

submitting the created at least one metadata record to a staging area database for quality control acceptance;

delivering the accepted, created at least one metadata record to a user.

2. A method to provide a searchable metadata convergence platform comprising the steps of:

identifying characteristics related to at least one metadata schema;

creating at least one metadata record based on the identified characteristics;

submitting the created at least one metadata record to a staging area database for quality control acceptance;

delivering the accepted created at least one metadata record to a user;

polling said delivered metadata record;

submitting polling results to the user.

3. A method to provide a metadata convergence platform comprising the steps of:

identifying at least one metadata schema;

automatically ingesting metadata into at least one metadata record based on the at least one metadata schema;

delivering the at least one metadata record to a user.