Methods and systems provide for aggregating person-centric data from one
or more data sources and for providing the aggregated data to a user via
a computer-displayed user interface that is keyed on or otherwise
associated with an identified name in electronically presented text or
data. A name in the text or data of an electronic document is identified
and is associated with a unique identification, such as an electronic
mail address. The unique identification is used by a persona menu
application to obtain person-centric data from a variety of data sources.
Example data sources include electronic mail contact files, electronic
mail and calendaring system free/busy status files, directories of
person-centric data related to persons associated with a distributed
computing network, and instant messaging files. A data structure is
populated with the returned data. Upon user selection, a user interface
containing aggregated data associated with the identified name is
displayed to the user to provide the user helpful information and actions
associated with the identified name.