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How can we improve people’s work by adding digital metadata to their environment? Metadata, construed broadly, is information about objects and their related events and processes. The most familiar forms of metadata are subject, title, author, date and related descriptions of articles, papers and books. But the concept is comprehensive enough to include annotations found on a document, data about how a document has been used, when, by, whom and how often, and even where it is to be found on a desk or in a library. My objective in this research project is to explore how to digitally augment work using AI techniques to track some of the significant interactions that occur in them. PROBLEM Metadata has long been used to augment physical environments. Libraries, in particular, need a method by which books and other artifacts can be efficiently tracked and identified by multiple attributes. Standards such as Open Geospatial Interoperability Standard (OGIS) have been developed to solve specific superficial problems: facilitating interoperability of data across sources. The World Wide Web attempted to move beyond basic level metadata. Tim Berners-Lee developed it with the vision of metadata linkin