Personal Knowledge

Management

Angela Kille
INF 385Q Knowledge Management Systems
School of Information | University of Texas at Austin
October 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 humankinds 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:
InteractiveStory By Query
Time interval property
MyLifeBits Screenshot
Stuff Ive Seen: A System for Personal
Information Retrieval and Re-Use

Stuff Ive 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 Ive Seen Screenshot
A Personal Information & Knowledge
Infrastructure Integrator (PIKII)

Vision for the future: PIKII

Managing and sharing information with
technology evolved from todays 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
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