Patent ID: 8656286

Claim:
A system for providing mixed-initiative curation of information within a shared repository, comprising: a processor to execute modules, comprising: a content module to retrieve static content published to a shared storage associated with a shared information management client; a recommendation module to identify unpublished dynamic content separate from the shared storage comprising one or more information items satisfying a similarity threshold with the published static content; an extraction module to extract entities, each comprising at least one of a date, location, name, person, organization, and topic, from the published static content and the unpublished dynamic content; a visualization module to generate within the shared information management client, an interactive visualization comprising mappings between the published static content and the unpublished dynamic content based on the extracted entities and that is separate from the published static content and the unpublished dynamic content; a link module to link the interactive visualization of the entities with the published static content and the unpublished dynamic content; an edit module to edit from within the visualization at least one of the extracted entities and to propagate the edit to the unpublished dynamic content or the published static content from which the edited entity was extracted; a selection module to receive a selection of one or more of the entities of the unpublished dynamic content from within the visualization; and an incorporation module to incorporate the unpublished dynamic content associated with the selected entities into the published static content in the shared storage.