Abstract: Subject ranking management system provides a ranked search result for a given set of one or more search terms. The subject ranking management system determines, using a taxonomy, one or more parent subject items related to one or more matching subject items that match a given set of search terms. The system statistically ranks relevant subject items including the matching subject items and the parent subject items, and organizes the relevant subject items as ranked by the item ranking calculation unit. Ranked subjects can then be presented to an operator to assist with further refinement or used to automatically produce a better search without further operator invention.

Abstract: A method and system is provided for populating an index corpus to an external search engine. The index population system comprises a card generator and a file system. The card generator reads a target content instance of business oriented metadata, and creates a representation of the target content instance. The card generator generates an index summary card for storing the representation of the target content instance. In an embodiment, the index summary card is in an HTML format that is consumable by various search engines. The file system stores the index summary cards and exposes the index summary card to an external search engine.

Abstract: An example management system comprises an indexing engine, an index store and an example engine. The indexing engine indexes content of source business oriented metadata. The indexing engine has a content scanner for reading the business oriented metadata, and building a content index of the business oriented metadata. The index store stores the content index of the business oriented metadata. The example engine manages logical associations of terms in a query using the content index.

Abstract: A method and system is provided for managing business taxonomy. The system comprises an indexing engine for indexing content of source business oriented metadata. The indexing engine has a content scanner for reading the business oriented metadata, defining taxonomy of the business oriented metadata, and building a content index of the business oriented metadata including a subject index representing the taxonomy of the business oriented metadata. The system also comprises an index store for storing the content index of the business oriented metadata, and a taxonomy engine for providing taxonomy services to users using the content index.