System and Method for Content Assessment

• US 20140258316A1
• Filed: 03/07/2014
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc
• Original Assignee: Open TEXT SA (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: O'Hagan, Paul, Bachinsky, Valery
• Application Number:
  US14/200,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258316A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/756
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/215 Improving data quality; Data cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/25 Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems

Abstract

Embodiments of content assessment systems are provided herein. A content assessment system may gather metadata of content objects and process the content objects to extract targeted content of interest from the unstructured content of the content objects or to provide an indication of the content objects that include the target content of interest. The metadata and target content of interest can be stored as structured data in a content assessment repository. The structured content assessment data can be accessed to identify content assets for processing including migration of content assets.

Claims

1. A system for profiling content in a data repository, comprising:

a source repository;

a content assessment system configured to connect to the source repository, the content assessment system comprising;

a relational content assessment database;

a metadata processing module configured to gather metadata of content objects stored in the source repository and store the metadata of the content objects as structured data in a set of metadata fields of the relational content assessment database; and

a content analytics module configured to process unstructured content of the content objects to automatically extract targeted content of interest from the unstructured content and store the targeted content of interest as structured data in a targeted content field of the relational content assessment database, the targeted content field corresponding to a particular content object related to the set of metadata fields for that content object in the relational content assessment database.

2. The system for profiling content of claim 1, wherein:

the gathered metadata comprises file properties for the content object; and

the set of metadata fields and the targeted content field corresponding to the particular content object are related to a primary key comprising an identification for that particular content object.

3. The system for profiling content of claim 1, wherein the content analytics module is configured to parse the content of the content objects and pattern match the content of the content objects to extract the targeted content of interest.

4. The system for profiling of claim 1, wherein the content assessment system further comprises a transfer module configured to:

identify a subset of content objects for transfer to a target repository based on the relational content assessment database;

map the gathered metadata for the subset of content objects from the relational content assessment database to target repository metadata for the subset of content objects; and

interact with a source repository system and a target repository system over a network to transfer the subset of content objects to the target repository.

5. The system for profiling content of claim 4, wherein identifying the subset of content objects for transfer based on the relational content assessment database comprises identifying content object records in the relational content assessment database having an entry in the targeted content field.

6. A method for profiling content comprising:

connecting a content assessment system to a source repository;

at the content assessment system;

gathering metadata of content objects stored in the source repository;

processing unstructured content of the content objects to automatically extract targeted content of interest from the unstructured content and; and

interacting with a relational database to store the metadata of the content objects as structured data in a set of metadata fields of a relational content assessment database and store the targeted content of interest as structured data in a targeted content field of the relational content assessment database, the targeted content field corresponding to a particular content object related to the set of metadata fields for that content object in the relational content assessment database.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein:

the gathered metadata comprises file properties for the content object; and

the set of metadata fields and the targeted content field corresponding to the particular content object are related to a primary key comprising an identification for that particular content object.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising parsing the content of the content objects and pattern matching the content of the content objects to extract the targeted content of interest.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

identifying a subset of content objects for transfer to a target repository based on the relational content assessment database;

mapping the gathered metadata for the subset of content objects from the relational content assessment database to target repository metadata for the subset of content objects; and

transferring the subset of content objects to the target repository.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein identifying the subset of content objects for transfer based on the relational content assessment database comprises identifying records having an entry in the targeted content field.

11. A system for transferring content, comprising:

a source repository;

a target repository;

a content assessment system configured to connect to the source repository and the target repository, the content assessment system comprising;

a relational content assessment database;

a metadata processing module configured to gather metadata of content objects stored in the source repository and store the metadata of the content objects as structured data in a set of metadata fields of the relational content assessment database;

a content analytics module configured to process unstructured content of the content objects to automatically extract targeted content of interest from the unstructured content and store the targeted content of interest as structured data in a targeted content field of the relational content assessment database; and

a transfer module configured to;

identify a subset of content objects for transfer from the relational content assessment database;

map the gathered metadata for the subset of content objects from the relational content assessment database to target repository metadata; and

transfer the subset of content objects from the source repository to the target repository based on the relational content assessment database.

12. The system for transferring content of claim 11, wherein the transfer module is further configured to map targeted content of interest for the subset of content objects from the relational content assessment database to target repository metadata.

13. The system for transferring content of claim 11, wherein:

the gathered metadata comprises file properties for the content object; and

the set of metadata fields and the targeted content field corresponding to a particular content object are related to a primary key comprising an identification for that particular content object.

14. The system for transferring content of claim 11, wherein the content analytics module is configured to parse the content of the content objects and pattern match the content of the content objects to extract the targeted content of interest.

15. The system for transferring content of claim 11, wherein the transfer module copies the subset of content objects from the source repository to the target repository in a mass file transfer operation.

16. The system for transferring content of claim 11, wherein the transfer module moves the subset of content objects from the source repository to the target repository.

17. A method, comprising:

connecting a content assessment system to a source repository;

at the content assessment system;

gathering metadata of content objects stored in the source repository;

processing unstructured content of the content objects to automatically extract targeted content of interest from the unstructured content;

interacting with a relational database to store the metadata of the content objects as structured data in a set of metadata fields of a relational content assessment database and store the targeted content of interest as structured data in a targeted content field of the relational content assessment database;

identifying a subset of content objects for transfer from the relational content assessment database;

mapping the gathered metadata for the subset of content objects from the relational content assessment database to target repository metadata; and

transferring the subset of content objects from the source repository to the target repository based on the relational content assessment database.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising mapping targeted content of interest for the subset of content objects from the relational content assessment database to target repository metadata.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein:

the gathered metadata comprises file properties for the content objects; and

the set of metadata fields and the targeted content field corresponding to a particular content object are related to a primary key comprising an identification for that particular content object.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising parsing the content of the content objects and pattern matching the content of the content objects to extract the targeted content of interest.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein transferring the subset of content objects further comprises copying the subset of content objects from the source repository to the target repository.

22. The method of claim 18, wherein transferring the subset of content objects further comprises a mass file transfer of the subset of objects.