Collaboration Map

The Collaboration Map shows the Topic as the central node surrounded by projects, people and organizations who are project participants. Additional context is provided by the various documents such as papers, patents, inventions. Use the + / - controls to zoom in to see more detail or zoom out to see more relationships. You can drag nodes around to orient the connections, or drag the white background to slide the whole map.   

The lines represent a connection. People and Organizations participate in Projects.  People author Papers and Invention Disclosure documents and then participate in the Patent. News Stories are written about People and Organizations. People have a relationship with an Organization such as being a Lab Director or a Department Member. Sometimes more distant Organization-to-People relationships are shown with a dotted line. Click on a Node to open a Callout Box of information.

A Key to the Nodes

•  Green Boxes are Projects
•  Orange dots are People
•  Blue Hexagons are Organizations
•   Yellow are written works documents
•   Purple are news stories
•   Red are innovation disclosures
•   Blue are patent documents

The Node color and shape represent different topics as shown above.  The documents, news, disclosures, and patents are all hidden by the "Works" filter.

Callout Box

By clicking a node you will open an information box or "Callout Box" (example shown above) containing more information about the node topic. Each call-out has related links depending on the kind of node, for example researcher profiles and lab sites, project description sites, and related disclosure pages. You will also find a Topic Summary with a paragraph that can be expanded by using the small [+] at the end. You may find project participant names.

Clicking the Topic title will open the corresponding topic in the external site in a new window, if available. Clicking the links in the Callout will take you directly to the source information web site, for example the paper publisher or the patent office page.

Timeline

The data in the Collaboration Map is also presented on a timeline. Use the Show Timeline button and Hide Timeline button to open and close the timeline. The timeline shows projects and documents related to the central node topic. The Widget visual elements interact: rolling over a timeline element will highlight the node on the map and vice versa.

Timeline Filter

With the timeline open you can see this filter. The two-handled grey slider is a Timeline Filter which sets the start and end date of a date-range showing nodes within a time of interest. The Timeline Filter fades nodes outside the set time period in the map, timeline, and Tabs.

Filter Buttons

Use the Filter By Type buttons to improve clarity of topics of interest by fading and almost hiding selected nodes.  Buttons may be used singly or together.

Go to Navigator

When you discover a topic of interest, you can open a full page in Visible Legacy Navigator for more information and features by clicking on the lower-left icon "Open map in Visible Legacy". This will open a new Tab or Windows with the Topic displayed in our full-featured Visible Legacy Navigator website. The Navigator presents more nodes and details in the map and offers additional features and views.  Visit the Navigator Help page for more.

Embeddable Map Widget for your web page

The widget is designed to be added into web pages such as your investigator profile or lab research page by inserting a line of code. The topic of the widget is set by the topic ID. In this case, the topic ID is FMI:4489. You can find the topic ID in the URL of the page as shown in Navigator. For single Topics you can use this example: