Patent ID: 8312058

Claim:
A system for providing elements dossiers, comprising: one or more memories; one or more life cycle records in the one or more memories, each life cycle record describing a life cycle in a work project; one or more artifact description records in the one or more memories, each artifact description record describing an artifact in the life cycle, at least one of the artifacts being a dynamic artifact; one or more relationship records in the one or more memories, each relationship record describing a relationship between at least two of the artifacts, at least one of the relationship records comprising a dynamically derived relationship; and computer module that determines a dossier including one or more relationships associated with a target artifact and all of the relationships associated with one or more other artifacts that have a common path of relationships with the target artifact based on the life cycle records, and artifact description records, and the relationship records wherein the computer module further derives one or more relationships between the target artifact and one or more of the other artifacts that are identified in the life cycle that is non-adjacent to the life cycle of the target artifact, and stores the derived one or more relationships with a derivation history in the one or more memories.