Transforming technologies to manage our information : the future of personal information management. Part 2 / William Jones.

Part of : Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

Includes bibliographical references : (pages 129-153).

5. Technologies of input and output -- 5.1 Technologies of output -- 5.2 Technologies of input -- 6. Technologies to save our information -- 6.1 The possibility of'total capture' -- 6.2 Personal potentials of a lifelog -- 6.3 Caveats and disclaimers -- 6.4 The PIM transformed, the PIM that remains -- 7. Technologies to search our information -- 7.1 Why don't we use search more often? (and how we may anyway) -- 7.2 Personal potentials of situated searching -- 7.2.1 Search as a relationship -- 7.2.2 Are we talking about personalized search or the search for personal information? -- 7.2.3 What to do with information that seems useful... only not now? -- 7.3 Caveats and disclaimers -- 7.4 The PIM transformed, the PIM that remains -- 7.4.1 Finding/re-finding -- 7.4.2 Keeping -- 7.4.3 The meta-level reach of search -- 7.4.4 Maintaining and organizing -- 7.4.5 Managing privacy and the flow of information -- 7.4.6 Measuring and evaluating -- 7.4.7 Making sense of and using the information -- 7.4.8 The technology remaining -- 8. Technologies to structure our information -- 8.1 Structure, structure everywhere nor any bit to share -- 8.2 Personal potentials of shared structure -- 8.2.1 Visions of the semantic web -- 8.2.2 From the public to the personal -- 8.2.3 Unfulfilled promises -- 8.2.4 More specific, more applied, in-line,'smaller' yes; but simpler? -- 8.2.5 Personal potential revisited: the meaningful sharing of structure -- 8.3 Caveats and considerations -- 8.3.1 Consideration #1: what is the smallest unit for a'meaningful' sharing of structure? -- 8.3.2 Consideration #2: how much meaning can be shared (reliably, usefully) through structure? -- 8.3.3 Consideration #3: how much needs to be the same for structures to be shared? -- 8.3.4 Consideration #4: how much needs to change for structures to be shared? -- 9. PIM transformed and transforming: stories from the past, present, and future -- 9.1 How much'clerical tax' do we pay? -- 9.2 Toward a synthesis of the senses of personal information and the activities of PIM -- 9.3 Personal information management, then and now -- 9.4 Tax-free PIM? -- 9.5 Where do we'PIM' in 2057? -- 9.6 Concluding thoughts on transforming technologies -- References -- Author biography.

With its theme,'Our Information, Always and Forever,' Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information can be personal to us. Part I then goes on to explore key issues that arise in the'great migration' of our information onto the Web and into a myriad of mobile devices. Part 2 provides a more focused look at technologies for managing information that promise to profoundly alter our practices of PIM and, through these practices, the way we lead our lives.