Disclosed is a method of editing a data stream (104), the data stream having a first unique identifier of an identifier space and having assigned metadata (106), the metadata comprising meta information and a metadata link, the metadata link comprising the first unique identifier and at least one data packet identifier, the method comprising the steps of:

performing an editing operation (100) on the data stream,
assigning a second unique identifier of the identifier space to the data stream,
storing of the first unique identifier for a resolver (124) task,
using a decision matrix (122) for updating of the meta-data link.