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Applications and Metadata  This section explains what an
application is and provides an overview of how metadata is
defined and subsequently associated with documents managed by
Oracle I/PM. It contains the following topics:  2.1
Understanding Applications  Applications are the core of Oracle
I/PM. Consider an application as a type of management container
for documents. You select an application to use when uploading
documents to Oracle I/PM and that application determines what
information, or metadata, is associated with the uploaded
document. The associated metadata may be visible to you and
require you to input information into a form, su