Patent ID: 7257569

Claim:
A computer implemented method for evaluating a plurality of document collections, comprising: collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a first shared attribute into a first document collection; collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on a second shared attribute into a second document collection; collecting a plurality of documents having non-unique values on at least one additional shared attribute into at least one additional document collection; each said document collection including electronic documents stored in a document management system where each said document is accessible to a plurality of individuals; said attributes being selected from a group of attributes including category and community; a category being a collection of documents about a specific topic, and a community being a collection of documents of interest to a specific group of people; determining and visualizing intersections of said first, second, and any additional document collections; for said communities, said visualizing including: providing to a user interface of a computer apparatus user selectable buttons for selecting at least two designated communities and one metric type from a set of metric types including documents metric, categories metric, and people metric; responsive to user selection of said people metric, presenting at said user interface a display of common people that intersect said designated communities; responsive to user selection of said documents metric, presenting to said user interface a display of common documents that intersect said designated communities; and responsive to user selection of said categories metric, presenting to said user interface a display of common categories that intersect said designated communities.