INTERNET-BASED ARCHIVE SERVICE FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS

A method and computer program product for storage, archiving, and retrieving electronic documents over the Internet. According to one embodiment, the method includes receiving an electronic document, storing the electronic document, associating the electronic document with a routing rule that specifies a meta variable defining metadata axis (102) and a bias variable defining a bias axis (104) in a multi-dimensional data space, parsing the electronic document to obtain metadata corresponding to the meta variable and bias data corresponding to the bias variable, and associating the electronic document with a cell in the data space, the cell selected according to the metadata and the bias data.