23. A service for enabling contextual collaboration within a computer network, wherein said service: receives a user request for a collaboration space within said computer network; creates a collaboration space containing a plurality of collaboration elements of different collaboration modalities in response to said user request for said collaboration space˜said collaboration space associated with a specific business context; issues a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of said collaboration space in response to said user request; maintains resources and resource interrelationships within contexts, said resources including at least one of collaboration elements, processes, tasks, business objects, users, and roles; selects a set of said resources to be displayed to a user, accessing, by said computing device, a library of context rules implemented by one of industry standard process ontologies and proprietary schemes; executing, by said computing device, context rules from said library of context rules associated with said specific business context; and outputting to said user said set of resources, and context-specific collaboration content based on said executing said context rules from said library of context rules.
23. A service for enabling contextual collaboration within a computer network, wherein said service: receives a user request for a collaboration space within said computer network; creates a collaboration space containing a plurality of collaboration elements of different collaboration modalities in response to said user request for said collaboration space˜said collaboration space associated with a specific business context; issues a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of said collaboration space in response to said user request; maintains resources and resource interrelationships within contexts, said resources including at least one of collaboration elements, processes, tasks, business objects, users, and roles; selects a set of said resources to be displayed to a user, accessing, by said computing device, a library of context rules implemented by one of industry standard process ontologies and proprietary schemes; executing, by said computing device, context rules from said library of context rules associated with said specific business context; and outputting to said user said set of resources, and context-specific collaboration content based on said executing said context rules from said library of context rules. 24. The service in claim 23 , wherein said service further: manages lifecycles of said collaboration spaces; maintains membership lists, user profiles, and role associations in said collaboration spaces; adds and removes said collaboration elements; and performs modality-specific operations on said collaboration elements.