Patent ID: 7885918

Claim:
A method comprising: reading content of business oriented metadata included in one or more source metadata documents, the business oriented metadata including metadata representing a structured hierarchy of reporting elements; extracting, from the business oriented metadata, information relating to a structure of the structured hierarchy, wherein the information relating to the structure of the structured hierarchy includes one or more parent/child relationships between terms within the content of the business oriented metadata; defining a taxonomy of the business oriented metadata using the one or more parent/child relationships; building a content index of the business oriented metadata including a subject index representing the taxonomy of the business oriented metadata; storing the content index of the business oriented metadata; and providing, with at least one computer, taxonomy services to users using the content index, wherein providing the taxonomy services comprises dynamically determining one or more drill targets at run-time based on the subject index, and wherein each of the drill targets links at least two different source metadata documents.