Knowledge gathering system based on user's affinity

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• identifying, using a spider component of a server and based on character matching algorithms or text matching algorithms, a match between:
• (i) a content of a document stored within one or more data repositories, and
• (ii) an affinity of a user;
• gathering, by the spider component of the server, using a knowledge map, and from the one or more data repositories, one or more documents with contents that match the affinity of the user;
• modifying, by the spider component of the server, the knowledge map by registering the gathered one or more documents with the knowledge map, the knowledge map being used to perform a search based on a search string to determine one or more of a document or an affinity of a user that match the search string;
• converting, by the spider component of the server, the gathered one or more documents into meta-documents by extracting the meta-documents from the gathered one or more documents in XML format, the meta-documents may include metrics information from the one or more document;
• analyzing, by the spider component of the server, the meta-documents to determine types of the gathered one or more documents;
• and
• notifying, by the spider component of the server, the user that the one or more documents with contents that match the affinity of the user have been gathered.