Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource are disclosed. According to one method, a metadata association rule is defined for a metadata associator. The metadata association rule specifies a...http://www.google.ca/patents/US7797337?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7797337 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically associating data with a resource as metadata based on a characteristic of the resource