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- Title
Personal Information Management: The Case for an Evolutionary Approach.
- Authors
Warren, Paul
- Abstract
This review paper argues that users of personal information management systems have three particularly pressing requirements, for which current systems do not fully cater: (i) To combat information overload, as the volume of information increases. (ii) To ease context switching, in particular, for users who face frequent interrupts in their work. (iii) To be supported in information integration, across a variety of applications. To meet these requirements, four broad technological approaches should be adopted in an incremental fashion: (i) The deployment of a unified file system to manage all information objects, including files, emails and webpage URLs. (ii) The use of tags to categorize information; implemented in a way which is backward-compatible with existing hierarchical file systems. (iii) The use of context to aid information retrieval; built upon existing file and tagging systems rather than creating a parallel context management system. (iv) The deployment of semantic technologies, coupled with the harvesting of all useful metadata.
- Subjects
PERSONAL information management; CONTEXT effects (Psychology); UNIFORM Resource Locators; MATHEMATICAL models; SEMANTICS; METADATA
- Publication
Interacting with Computers, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 3, p208
- ISSN
0953-5438
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/iwc/iwt034