Abstract: A method and system for rendering and displaying a graph summarizing the history of revisions to a document are provided. The graph provides a simplified visualization of relationships and status of versions of a document that help answer a variety of important questions during the process of drafting and revising documents. The method provides for the summarization of arbitrarily complex revision histories by employing an algorithm that takes information about a user's role and rights related to the document and various revision events and sequences of revision events pertaining to a subset of revisions as input and translating these events into summarized descriptors which can be graphically represented through visual indicators.