System for managing, analyzing, navigating or searching of data information across one or more sources within a computer or a computer network, without copying, moving or manipulating the source or the data information stored in the source
The inventions and its embodiments (hereafter called “the System”) are intended for use by any user in any situation where the amount of data is too extensive to effectively make sense of it in traditional manners or by use of traditional technology. Source data may be provided by one or many network computers and their inherent applications and/or data repositories. Information is made available to the users in intuitive contexts without moving, copying or manipulating the source data. Raw source data is extracted, analyzed, improved and normalized through a curating process for use by the System. All metadata are connected through a multidimensional, non-linear relational network, the fixed layer, based on a persistent relational network that includes any existing or emerging contextual information in the form of structured metadata.
1. A system for managing, analyzing, navigating or searching of data information across one or more sources within a computer network, the system being configured for aligning and connecting unstructured, heterogenic metadata describing data information extracted from the one or more sources in order to provide a homogenous structure of metadata describing the data information, thereby enabling access to the data information in a contextual manner, the system comprising:
a fixed layer network of metadata entities, entity types, entity relations and entity relation types defining internal multiple non-linear relationships between the metadata entities;
a mapper configured to select and structure the metadata describing the data information extracted from the one or more sources, the mapper comprising:
a metadata curation module configured to process the metadata extracted from the one or more sources according to a set of rules and criteria; and
a relationship exported module configured to create one or more initial relational network clusters, in which the metadata is represented as separate entities with relationships to a file entity, based on the processed metadata from the metadata curation module, the relationship exporter module is further configured to export the initial metadata cluster to the relational network of the fixed layer and further configured to calculate a score for each metadata instance, the scoring signifying the quality, trustworthiness and usefulness of each metadata instance;
the mapper being further configured to parse and map the one or more relational network clusters created by the relationship exporter module to the relational structure of the fixed layer network, thereby creating a relational network with relationships between the metadata describing the data information and the metadata entities of the fixed layer network, all metadata instances of the fixed layer having a calculated score, a combined score of the metadata of the initial cluster and the fixed layer is determined and provided as a property for the relationship;
at least one of a weight and probability of being correct is determined for relationships based on the relationship properties and the metadata for increasing accuracy of navigation of the data information.
2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the respective relationships between the metadata describing the data information and the metadata entities of the fixed layer network further have properties corresponding to relationship type, terms, weight and probability and to what type of fixed layer entity it is connected.
3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the internal relationships between the metadata entities includes metadata classes, subclasses and identifiers.
4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the set of criteria includes trustworthiness, time, quality and usefulness.
5. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the metadata curation module is further configured to one of add, remove, parse and combine metadata to provide a more effective metadata structure.
6. The system according to claim 1 , wherein internal relationships are at least one of organizational, legal, structural, geographical and time relationships.
7. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the data information is at least one of files and documents and the one or more sources are one or more databases.