The science of managing our digital stuff
Bergman, Ofer
- Cambridge MIT Press 2016
- xiii, 275 p.
Table of Content:
Part I. Personal Information Management: The Curation Perspective 1. Personal archives and curation processes 2. Keeping 3. Management 4. Exploitation
Part II. Hierarchical Folders and Their Alternatives 5. The search alternative 6. The tagging alternative 7. The group management alternative 8. Why is navigation the preferred PIM retrieval method?
Part III. The User-Subjective Approach to PIM System Design 9. The user-subjective approach 10. The subjective important principle 11. The subjective project classification principle 12. The subjective context principle
Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, photographs, PowerPoint presentations, videos, music, emails and texts sent and received. To access any of this, we have to find it. The ease (or difficulty) of finding something depends on how we organize our digital stuff. In this book, personal information management (PIM) experts Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker explain why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how the design of new PIM systems can help us manage our collections more efficiently.