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1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages) : illustrations. |
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The Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies |
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The Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems |
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Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies.
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Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-421) and index. |
| Contents |
Foundations. A study and a practice ; A personal space of information ; A framework for personal information management -- Activities. Finding and re-finding: from need to information ; Keeping and organizing: from information to need ; Maintaining for now and for later ; Managing privacy and the flow of information ; Measuring and evaluating ; Making sense of things -- Solutions. Email disappears? ; Search gets personal ; PIM on the go ; PIM on the Web -- Conclusions. Bringing the pieces together ; Finding our way in(to) the future. |
| Summary |
WE ARE ADRIFT IN A SEA OF INFORMATION. We need information to make good decisions, to get things done, to learn, and to gain better mastery of the world around us. But we do not always have good control of our information - not even in the ""home waters"" of an office or on the hard drive of a computer. Instead, information may be controlling us - keeping us from doing the things we need to do, getting us to waste money and precious time. The growth of available information, plus the technologies for its creation, storage, retrieval, distribution and use, is astonishing and sometimes bewilderi. |
| Subject |
Personal information management.
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Information retrieval.
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Privacy.
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Gestion d'informations personnelles. |
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Recherche de l'information. |
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Vie privée. |
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information retrieval. |
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Information retrieval |
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Personal information management |
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Privacy |
| Added Title |
Study and practice of personal information management |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, William P., 1952- Keeping found things found. Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ©2008 9780123708663 (DLC) 2007029784 (OCoLC)156975303 |
| ISBN |
0123708664 |
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9780123708663 |
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