| 20090089315 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING METADATA WITH ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A computer hardware/software facility for managing electronic documents receives metadata globally attributable to a plurality of electronic documents and searches the electronic documents to acquire or generate metadata locally attributable to the plurality of electronic documents. The global and local metadata are organized into an intermediate file, which is displayed in an editable format. The intermediate file is used to generate a database encoding the electronic documents and associated metadata. | 04-02-2009 |