Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects...http://www.google.de/patents/US20070185921?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20070185921 - Systems and methods for cataloging metadata for a metabase
