Patent ID: 8806355

Claim:
A method comprising: obtaining collaboration data from at least one data source; mapping the collaboration data into a visual representation of a collaboration map in a collaboration space, wherein the visual representation is arranged to be manipulated to cause details associated with a collaboration to be displayed in the collaboration space; and enabling manipulations of the visual representation, wherein the visual representation includes a dynamic timeline and enabling the manipulations of the visual representation includes allowing a length of the timeline to be altered, wherein mapping the collaboration data into the visual representation includes identifying a first collaboration event in the collaboration data and mapping the first collaboration event into a first discrete icon associated with a first geometrical shape, the first discrete icon being included along the dynamic timeline and arranged to indicate at least one selected from the group including an importance with respect to the first collaboration event and a type associated with the first collaboration event, and wherein mapping the collaboration data into the visual representation further includes identifying a second collaboration event in the collaboration data and mapping the second collaboration event into a second discrete icon associated with a second geometrical shape, the second geometrical shape being differentiable from the first geometrical shape, the second discrete icon being included along the dynamic timeline and arranged to indicate at least one selected from the group including an importance with respect to the second collaboration event and a type associated with the second collaboration event.