workflow process definition such as the instance 200 of the workflow process definition illustrated in fig2 more specifically fig3 illustrates the manner in which a user operating the process management system displayed on the user interface 310 is able to index into the process description to access resources of the task document 204 unlike the process description 200 illustrated in fig2 the process description 311 illustrated in fig3 has only task 102 completed generally fig3 illustrates the relationship between the process description 310 and metadata 312 as indicated by arrow 314 and the relationship between the metadata 312 and resources stored in document store 316 as indicated by arrow 318 more specifically fig3 illustrates the relationship between the task document 201 and task document metadata 313 in addition fig3 illustrates the manner in which metadata 313 identifies the resources documents 206 and 208 associated task document 201 recorded in document store 316 the documents in document store 316 include documents that are resources which were used to formulate that task document 201 fig4 illustrates an example of a task document 402 for a particular task u201c x u201d in one embodiment the task document 402 includes metadata 404 which is referenced.