20. A method for organizing, managing, and reporting data relating to a corporate entity, comprising: retrieving an entity record comprising a value and a lineage entry, the lineage entry comprising a value source, the value source referencing a first document; retrieving a corporate action stored as a computer-readable process definition, the corporate action defining a set of stakeholders; creating a second document based on the entity record and on stakeholder input; applying a status tag to the second document indicating a status of the second document in a document workflow, the status tag being applied as a human-readable, freeform text format data object associated with the second document; and storing the second document record in association with both a hierarchically delimited child tag and additional tags that are hierarchically related as parent tags of the hierarchically delimited child tag, without requiring a user to request storage of both the child tag and the additional parent tags.
20. A method for organizing, managing, and reporting data relating to a corporate entity, comprising: retrieving an entity record comprising a value and a lineage entry, the lineage entry comprising a value source, the value source referencing a first document; retrieving a corporate action stored as a computer-readable process definition, the corporate action defining a set of stakeholders; creating a second document based on the entity record and on stakeholder input; applying a status tag to the second document indicating a status of the second document in a document workflow, the status tag being applied as a human-readable, freeform text format data object associated with the second document; and storing the second document record in association with both a hierarchically delimited child tag and additional tags that are hierarchically related as parent tags of the hierarchically delimited child tag, without requiring a user to request storage of both the child tag and the additional parent tags. 24. The method of claim 20 , wherein the first document is a certificate of incorporation, and the first core record is a corporation name referenced in the certificate of incorporation.