In an ideal world, everyone would always have the right
information, in the right form, with the right context, right when
they needed it. Unfortunately, we do not live in an ideal world.
This book looks at how people in the real world currently manage to
store and process the massive amounts of information that overload
their senses and their systems, and discusses how tools can help
bring these real information interactions closer to the ideal.
Personal information management (PIM) is the study and practice of
the activities people perform to acquire, organize, maintain, and
retrieve information for everyday use. PIM is a growing area of
interest as we all strive for better use of our limited personal
resources of time, money, and energy, as well as greater workplace
efficiency and productivity. Personal information is currently
fragmented across electronic documents, email messages, paper
documents, digital photographs, music, videos, instant messages,
and so on. Each form of information is organized and used to
complete different tasks and to fulfill disparate roles and
responsibilities in an individual's life. Existing PIM tools are
partly responsible for this fragmentation. They can also be part of
the solution that brings information together again. A major
contribution of this book is its integrative treatment of
PIM-related research. The book grows out of a workshop on PIM
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, held in Seattle,
Washington, in 2006. Scholars from major universities and
researchers from companies such as Microsoft Research, Google, and
IBM offer approaches to conceptual problems of information
management. In doing so, they provide a framework for thinking
about PIM as an area for future research and innovation.
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