Patent ID: 6850944

Claim:
A method of managing a large-scale information space, comprising the steps of: populating a digital repository with entries corresponding to nodes of an ontological hierarchy of the large-scale information space, said entries including an identification indicator, and at least one of an ontological hierarchy position indicator for the node and a location indicator of informational content available on a network and corresponding to the ontological hierarchy position; creating a library user group associating at least one library user with a predetermined category based on a library user identification indicator; creating a specialized view into the large-scale information space containing a subset of the ontological hierarchy that corresponds to the predetermined category; and presenting the specialized view into the large-scale information space to a selected one of the at least one library user belonging to the library user group based on the library user identification indicator received from the selected one of the at least one library user that associates the selected one of the at least one library user to the library user group.