The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergman, Ofer, author.

Whittaker, Steve, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personal information management.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2016]

Summary:

Each of us has an ever-growing collection of personal digital data: documents, emails, Web pages we visited, tasks, contacts, appointments and pictures we took. To use any of this, we have to find it. The ease of finding something depends on how we organize our digital stuff. In this text, personal information management (PIM) experts Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker explain why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how better design can help us manage our collections more efficiently.

Contents:

Personal archives and curation processes

Keeping

Management

Exploitation

The search alternative

The tagging alternative

The group management alternative

Why is navigation the preferred PIM retrieval method?

The user-subjective approach

The subjective important principle

The subjective project classification principle

The subjective context principle.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-33628-6

0-262-33629-4

OCLC:

962395832