Patent ID: 8706702

Claim:
A method of data management in a collaborative service-oriented workspace, employed in an information technology system, the method comprising: accessing at least one datum representative of a physical object, which is stored in a first memory in a remote device; extracting at least one characteristic information item of the at least one datum according to a predetermined parameter; storing, in a second memory in a centralized database, the extracted at least one characteristic information item and a link to the at least one datum in a first data object associated with the at least one datum, the first data object being stored in the second memory in the centralized database; selecting at least one data object representative of a process; determining, in the at least one data object representative of the process, a link to the first data object associated with the at least one datum employed by the process and representative of a physical object; and executing the process, wherein the first data object is associated with generic metadata that is common to all data objects in the collaborative service-oriented workspace and specific metadata that defines at least one attribute of the physical object represented by the at least one datum.