Document Curation System

A document curation system for curating objects from documents stored in a document storage system, each document containing at least one object and being organized according to one of a plurality of predefined object models, the document storage system including an application programming interface (API) and also storing information about each document, the document curation system comprising:

• a computer programming interface that fetches documents, as well as information about the documents, from the document storage system via the document storage system's API;
• a document analyzer that automatically identifies the object model of each fetched document and automatically identifies objects in the fetched document, according to the object model of the fetched document;
• an object normalizer that automatically creates a normalized version of each identified object, the normalized version of the identified object being independent of the object model of the fetched document and excluding characteristics from the identified object that are irrelevant to contents of the identified object;
• a hash calculator that automatically calculates a hash value based on each identified object;
• an object score calculator that calculates a relevance score for each identified object, independent of any user-initiated search;
• a metadata generator that automatically generates metadata about each identified object, the metadata including information sufficient to fetch the object from the document storage system;
• an index database, distinct from the document storage system, configured to store information about individual objects;
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• an indexer that stores the normalized version of the identified object, the hash value, the relevance score and the metadata in the index database for each of a plurality of objects identified by the document analyzer.