Patent ID: 8108373

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least on processor; a repository residing in the memory; and a content management system residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the content management system comprising a missing content author selection mechanism that receives a first request for an element, determines the requested element is not in the repository, and in response to determining the requested element is not respository, creates and processes a second request for similar elements in the repository, wherein the second request comprises a query to the repository created from metadata for the element requested in the first request, determines at least one element in the repository that satisfies the second request, builds a list of the at least one element in the respository that satisfies the second request, identifies at least one author for the at least one element in the repository in the list, creates a ranked list of authors based on authors for the at least one element in the list, and determines at least one backup author if any preferred author in the ranked list of authors is not available.