Concepts

Use

In the context of Knowledge Provider, the term 'document' refers to any information entity that can be accessed via document-like objects, in particular:

• Actual content

• Management data

• Index data

• Metadata

Every application-specific Content Model represents a document definition.

The central components of Knowledge Provider are Logical Documents, Physical Documents, and Components. A logical document is the logical representation of a document in all its forms. A logical document can contain several physical documents. Physical documents therefore consist of meta-descriptions of real documents. Meta-descriptions are implemented using attributes.

Physical documents contain references to one or more components. Components contain administration data about the document content, for example, the size of the file.

On the physical level, every component is assigned to one file. The file contains the actual content.