Patent ID: 7418452

Claim:
A method of organizing and retrieving information regarding raw data stored on a local or remote data store, comprising: a. providing access to raw data to a computer system user, the raw data comprising at least one of (i) a text data file, (ii) a graphics data file, (iii) an audio data file, (iv) a video data file, (v) a universal resource locator (URL) associated with the raw data, or (vi) a link to a data file associated with raw data, the raw data further being stored at least one of (i) locally to a computer being used by the computer system user or (ii) remotely from the computer being used by the computer system user; b. providing software comprising a user interface in the computer being used by the computer system user; c. capturing a description of the raw data in an authority table associated with a user searchable database accessible to the computer system user, the description comprising a path to access the raw data; d. associating the raw data with a user definable taxonomy; e. associating a keeper data structure with the raw data; f. associating the keeper data structure with a predetermined portion of a displayable computer screen, each predetermined portion being associated with a predetermined portion of the user definable taxonomy; g. storing sufficient information into the keeper data structure to describe an viewable link to the keeper data structure, the raw data associated with the keeper data structure, and the user definable taxonomy associated with the keeper data structure; and h. performing a predetermined operation on the associated raw when the viewable link is selected by the user.