Spatially enabled content management, discovery and distribution system for unstructured information management
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1. A computerized non-event based method for effectuating a search of unstructured information to provide for rapid querying of the unstructured information utilizing spatial searching, comprising the step of:
- providing a search tool which when programmed constitutes a particular machine used with existing documents stored in a computer having unstructured textual geographical location information, excluding previously encoded spatial metadata the search tool;
ascertaining either implicit or explicit indications of geographical location by ascertaining from document text places or things described in the existing document;
storing the documents in the computer with geographical location attributes as metadata;
searching the stored documents in terms of metadata utilizing geographical location search terms; and
,returning documents having metadata corresponding to the geographical location search term, the particular machine being reconfigured upon performance of the ascertaining, storing, searching and returning steps, such that a non-event based method is provided that relies on document analysis.
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Abstract
What is provided is a spatially-enabled content management system in which unstructured information is data mined for location or spatial references, with the search query including not only the spatial reference that has been provided by the data mining but also other search query terms, thus to provide an analyst with rapid geo-searching for unstructured information management.
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18 Claims
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1. A computerized non-event based method for effectuating a search of unstructured information to provide for rapid querying of the unstructured information utilizing spatial searching, comprising the step of:
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providing a search tool which when programmed constitutes a particular machine used with existing documents stored in a computer having unstructured textual geographical location information, excluding previously encoded spatial metadata the search tool; ascertaining either implicit or explicit indications of geographical location by ascertaining from document text places or things described in the existing document; storing the documents in the computer with geographical location attributes as metadata; searching the stored documents in terms of metadata utilizing geographical location search terms; and
,returning documents having metadata corresponding to the geographical location search term, the particular machine being reconfigured upon performance of the ascertaining, storing, searching and returning steps, such that a non-event based method is provided that relies on document analysis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A computerized non-event based method for providing a combined search of geographical location and other attributes of unstructured information in documents, comprising the step of providing a search tool which when programmed constitutes a particular machine for:
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ingesting and parsing an existing document having unstructured textual geographical location data, excluding non-textual geodata including the step of scanning the unstructured textual data for both implicit and explicit geographical location references and for geographical location meta-tagging the scanned existing document; storing the existing document with geographical location references as metadata in a content management system repository; ingesting new documents, including the step of providing each new document with mandatory metadata having at least one geographical location reference; storing the ingested new document with its geographical location reference as metadata in the content management system repository; publishing documents having geographical location metadata in the content management system repository; text-indexing the published documents by providing each of the documents with a text index; loading the text-indexed published documents into a distribution system for storage; and
,accessing the distribution system with a search query including at least a geographical location definition query, the particular machine being reconfigured upon performance of the steps performed thereby, such that a non-event based method relying on document analysis is provided. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. Spatially-enabled non-event based content management apparatus for the discovery and distribution of geographical location unstructured information, comprising:
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an ingester for ingesting and parsing existing documents having unstructured textual geographical location information, said ingestion including an input translator for scanning the unstructured information in a document to generate at least one meta-tag relating to a geographical location within the document; a content management system repository storing the meta-tagged documents; and
,a search engine including a query system for searching said documents using associated metadata to return documents having geographical location reference metadata relating to a spatial search. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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16. Spatially-enabled content management apparatus for the discovery and distribution of unstructured geographical location information, comprising:
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a new document having unstructured textual geographical location information; an analyzer for analyzing the new document for a geographical textual location reference; a metadata tagger for tagging the new document with metadata at least relating to a said geographical location reference; a content management system repository storing only meta-tagged documents having a geographical location meta-tag, whereby geographical location meta-tagging is mandatory; and
,a search engine including a query system for searching said documents using associated metadata to return documents having geographical location reference metadata relating to a geographical location search. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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