The Future ofPersonal InformationManagement
Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
Editor
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services is edited by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina. The series will publish 50- to 100-page publications on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management. The scope will largely follow the purview of premier information and computer science conferences, such as ASIST, ACM SIGIR, ACM/IEEE JCDL, and ACM CIKM. Potential topics include, but not are limited to: data models, indexing theory and algorithms, classification, information architecture, information economics, privacy and identity, scholarly communication, bibliometrics and webometrics, personal information management, human information behavior, digital libraries, archives and preservation, cultural informatics, information retrieval evaluation, data fusion, relevance feedback, recommendation systems, question answering, natural language processing for retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and exploratory search.
The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever
William Jones
2012
Search User Interface Design
Max L. Wilson
2011
Information Retrieval Evaluation
Donna Harman
2011
Knowledge Management (KM) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice
Claire R. McInerney and Michael E. D. Koenig
2011
Search-Based Applications: At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies
Gregory Grefenstette and Laura Wilber
2010
Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities
Gary Marchionini
2010
Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
David Carmel and Elad Yom-Tov
2010
iRODS Primer: Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System
Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, Chien-Yi Hou, Christopher A. Lee, Richard Marciano, Antoine de Torcy, Michael Wan, Wayne Schroeder, Sheau-Yen Chen, Lucas Gilbert, Paul Tooby, and Bing Zhu
2010
Collaborative Web Search: Who, What, Where, When, and Why
Meredith Ringel Morris and Jaime Teevan
2009
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Stefan Rüger
2009
Online Multiplayer Games
William Sims Bainbridge
2009
Information Architecture: The Design and Integration of Information Spaces
Wei Ding and Xia Lin
2009
Reading and Writing the Electronic Book
Catherine C. Marshall
2009
Hypermedia Genes: An Evolutionary Perspective on Concepts, Models, and Architectures
Nuno M. Guimarães and Luís M. Carrico
2009
Understanding User-Web Interactions via Web Analytics
Bernard J. (Jim) Jansen
2009
XML Retrieval
Mounia Lalmas
2009
Faceted Search
Daniel Tunkelang
2009
Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences
Michael Thelwall
2009
Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm
Ryen W. White and Resa A. Roth
2009
New Concepts in Digital Reference
R. David Lankes
2009
Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems: Creation, Refinement, Use in Surrogates, and Evaluation
Michael G. Christel
2009
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The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever
William Jones
ISBN: 9781598299359 paperback
ISBN: 9781598299366 ebook
DOI 10.2200/S00411ED1V01Y201203ICR021
A Publication in the Morgan & Claypool Publishers series
SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON INFORMATION CONCEPTS, RETRIEVAL, AND SERVICES
Lecture #21
Series Editor: Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Series ISSN Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Print 1947-945X Electronic 1947-9468
The Future ofPersonal InformationManagement
Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever
William Jones
University of Washington
SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON INFORMATION CONCEPTS, RETRIEVAL, AND SERVICES #21
ABSTRACT
We are well into a second age of digital information. Our information is moving from the desktop to the laptop to the “palmtop” and up into an amorphous cloud on the Web. How can one manage both the challenges and opportunities of this new world of digital information? What does the future hold? This book provides an important update on the rapidly expanding field of personal information management (PIM).
Part I (Always and Forever) introduces the essentials of PIM. Information is personal for many reasons. It’s the information on our hard drives we couldn’t bear to lose. It’s the information about us that we don’t want to share. It’s the distracting information demanding our attention even as we try to do something else. It’s the information we don’t know about but need to. Through PIM, we control personal information. We integrate information into our lives in useful ways. We make it “ours.” With basics established, Part I proceeds to explore a critical interplay between personal information “always” at hand through mobile devices and “forever” on the Web. How does information stay “ours” in such a