Patent attributes
A method and system for expressive conversion of more expressive metadata to less expressive metadata while maintaining lossless conversion including receiving a request for a second system metadata, retrieving a first system metadata, generating the second system metadata in response to the request for the second system metadata and the first system metadata wherein the second system metadata includes a first subset of the first system metadata, generating a site metadata mapping in response to the second system metadata and the first system metadata wherein the site metadata mapping includes a second subset of the first system metadata not included in the second subset of the first system metadata, storing the site metadata mapping in a memory, and transmitting the second system metadata to a client application.
