Time relevance within a soft copy document or media object

A method for identifying time context in a media object to provide meta tags for the time context in the media object, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a software tool executed on a computing device, input of the media object comprising time relevant expressions;
• identifying each of the time relevant expressions in the media object for display to a user;
• displaying the time relevant expressions identified in the media object, the time relevant expressions displayed by the software tool with an option for the user to enter values for each of the time relevant expressions;
• wherein the values are respectively comprised in the meta tags;
• and
• assigning the meta tags to the time relevant expressions in the media object, the meta tags comprising the values respectively corresponding to each of the time relevant expressions,
• wherein the software tool is further executed on the computing device to perform at least one of:
• embedding the meta tags having the values for the time relevant expressions in the media object, such that the meta tags in the media object are available for searching and indexing;
• and
• attaching the meta tags having the values for the time relevant expressions to the media object;
• and
• wherein the time relevant expressions comprise individual words and phrases.