Personal Knowledge Management

Angela KilleINF 385Q Knowledge Management SystemsSchool of Information | University of Texas at AustinOctober 20, 2005

Personal Knowledge Management

Grown out of fields of Personal Information Management and Knowledge Management

Focus on individuals Help them be more effective in their

work

As We May Think (1945) by Vannevar Bush

Make humankind’s store of knowledge more accessible

Memex – mechanized private file and library Books, pictures, periodicals, etc. Notes and comments

Associative indexing Link items and annotate

As We May Think (1945)by Vannevar Bush

“[Man] has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.”

MyLifeBits: Fulfilling the Memex Vision

System for storing personal digital media: documents, images, sounds, and videos

Four principles of MyLifeBits Unique features:

Interactive Story By Query Time interval property

MyLifeBits – Screenshot

Stuff I’ve Seen: A System for Personal Information Retrieval and Re-Use

Stuff I’ve Seen (SIS) system designed to facilitate information re-use

Memex again Similar to MyLifeBits, but focuses on

a wider range of information sources and file types

Stuff I’ve Seen – Screenshot

A Personal Information & Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator (PIKII)

Vision for the future: PIKII Managing and sharing information with

technology evolved from today’s blog software

Communities of interest Changes needed for this vision to

happen

How Knowledge Workers Use the Web

Study of Web activities of knowledge workers

Aim to understand what new kinds of technological offerings users would value

Six categories of Web activities Results lead to educated guesses

about valued technology

Integrating Back, History and Bookmarks in Web Browsers

Back, History and Bookmarks – facilitate returning to previously seen pages Operate on different underlying models

Created alternative Web site revisitation system that integrates these three functions

Discussion

Any questions?

References

Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1), 101‑108. Retrieved October 18, 2005, from http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

Dumais, S., Cutrell, E., Cadiz, J. J., Jancke, G., Sarin, R., & Robbins, D. C. (2003). Stuff I’ve seen: A system for personal information retrieval and re‑use. Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 72‑79. Retrieved October 18, 2005, from ACM Digital Library database.

Edmonds, K. A., Blustein, J., & Turnbull, D. (2004). A personal information and knowledge infrastructure integrator. Journal of Digital Information, 5(1), article no. 243. Retrieved October 18, 2005, from http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v05/i01/Edmonds/

Gemmell, J., Bell, G., Lueder, R., Drucker, S., & Wong, C. (2002). MyLifeBits: Fulfilling the Memex vision. Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 235‑238. Retrieved October 18, 2005, from ACM Digital Library database.

Kaasten, S., & Greenberg, S. (2001). Integrating back, history and bookmarks in Web browsers. CHI 2001 Conference Proceedings, 379‑380.

Sellen, A. J., Murphy, R., & Shaw, K. L. (2002). How knowledge workers use the Web. CHI 2002 Conference Proceedings, 227‑234.