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By
William Jones, University of Washington
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Description
WE ARE ADRIFT IN A SEA OF INFORMATION. We need information to make good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better mastery
of the world around us. But we do not always have good control of our information - not even in the "home waters" of an office or on
the hard drive of a computer. Instead, information may be controlling us - keeping us from doing the things we need to do, getting us
to waste money and precious time. The growth of available information, plus the technologies for its creation, storage, retrieval, distribution
and use, is astonishing and sometimes bewildering. Can there be a similar growth in our understanding for how best to manage information
and informational tools?
This book provides a comprehensive overview of personal information management (PIM) as both a study and a
practice of the activities people do and need to be doing so that information can work for them in their daily lives.
Introductory chapters
of Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management provide an overview of PIM and a sense
for its many facets. The next chapters look more closely at the essential challenges of PIM, including finding, keeping, organizing,
maintaining, managing privacy, and managing information flow. The book also contains chapters on search, email, mobile PIM, web-based
support, and other technologies relevant to PIM.
Audience
This book is for R&D professionals in HCI, data mining and data management, information retrieval, and related areas, plus developers of tools and software that include PIM solutions.
Contents
I. Foundations of Personal Information Management: Introduction: A study and a practice; A personal space of information; A framework
for understanding PIM. II. Activities of Personal Information Management: Finding and re-finding: From need to information; Keeping and
organizing: From information to need; Maintaining personal information for now and for later; Managing privacy and the flow of information;
Measuring and evaluating a practice of PIM: Is it working?; Making sense of things. III: Solutions for PIM: Email goes away?; Search
gets personal; PIM on the go; PIM on the Web; Bringing the pieces together. IV: Finding our way into the future. Appendix: Glossary of
terms.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Paperback, 448 pages, publication date: NOV-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370866-3
ISBN-10: 0-12-370866-4
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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Last update: 26 Aug 2008
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