One or more embodiments of the invention enable a user to create multiple
non-redundant views using metadata targeted at a specific audience that
comprises language, regional, regulatory and/or cultural specific values.
The word "audience" for the purposes of this specification means a group
of document consumers such as people or computers that are associated
with a language, country, region, regulation or culture. Audience
specific data therefore is data targeted at a specific audience and
audience specific metadata is related to the descriptive information
related to the data, such as a table name or a field name for example. At
least one embodiment of the invention makes use of rule-based inheritance
in providing metadata values via layers that comprise audience specific
data.