associate metadata to sections of text

[kurt-hectic]

Hello,

I am looking for a way to associate metadata to sections of text in MS Word. The metadata consists of keyword lists and free-text fields. The purpose of the metadata is to discover sections of text in very long and complex documents using a separate application.

This custom software would extract metadata, full-text and structural information from the Word document, and insert it into a database which powers a search engine.

I am looking for a way to associate the metadata to sections of text using MS Word. It appears to be important to use MS Word for both text editing and metadata input, as text changes require metadata updates and also to maintain the association of metadata to a particular section in a changing document.

An example workflow:

A new section of text with a heading 2 and some standard text is input. The section of text (heading and text?) is selected and then a button "add metadata" is pressed which opens a form that assists the editor with metadata input (dropdowns etc.).
The metadata is stored inside the Word document and its presence somehow visible in MS word.
Updating existing metadata is possible using a similar form.
The metadata is not shown in the final version of the text, but it can be extracted using a custom script processing the XML.

I was wondering if such a thing could be implemented using MS Word on-board means and/or a plugin.



best regards and thanks
Kurt