Patent ID: 7072983

Claim:
A meta-data registration method, comprising the steps of: detecting at least one of a MIME format and a data name extension of registering data to be registered into a Web server that registers and manages data and meta-data for data; selecting one procedure corresponding to the MIME format or the extension detected by the detecting step, from a plurality of procedures each provided in correspondence to at least one of a MIM format and an extension and stored in advance, each procedure having a program code for generating the meta-data for data according to a corresponding MIME format or extension, each procedure containing information for specifying formats of the meta-data to be generated according to the corresponding MIME format or extension, and each procedure being designed to generate names and values of the meta-data in formats specified by said information; generating the meta-data for the registering data by executing the program code of said one procedure selected by the selecting step; and registering the meta-data generated by the generating step in relation to the registering data into the Web server.