The Science Of Managing Our Digital Stuff

Author : Ofer Bergman,Steve Whittaker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262336284

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The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff by Ofer Bergman,Steve Whittaker Pdf

Why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how design of new PIM systems can help us manage our information more efficiently. 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. Bergman and Whittaker report that many of us use hierarchical folders for our personal digital organizing. Critics of this method point out that information is hidden from sight in folders that are often within other folders so that we have to remember the exact location of information to access it. Because of this, information scientists suggest other methods: search, more flexible than navigating folders; tags, which allow multiple categorizations; and group information management. Yet Bergman and Whittaker have found in their pioneering PIM research that these other methods that work best for public information management don't work as well for personal information management. Bergman and Whittaker describe personal information collection as curation: we preserve and organize this data to ensure our future access to it. Unlike other information management fields, in PIM the same user organizes and retrieves the information. After explaining the cognitive and psychological reasons that so many prefer folders, Bergman and Whittaker propose the user-subjective approach to PIM, which does not replace folder hierarchies but exploits these unique characteristics of PIM.

Author : Ofer Bergman,Steve Whittaker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262035170

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The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff by Ofer Bergman,Steve Whittaker Pdf

Why we organize our personal digital data the way we do and how design of new PIM systems can help us manage our information more efficiently. 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. Bergman and Whittaker report that many of us use hierarchical folders for our personal digital organizing. Critics of this method point out that information is hidden from sight in folders that are often within other folders so that we have to remember the exact location of information to access it. Because of this, information scientists suggest other methods: search, more flexible than navigating folders; tags, which allow multiple categorizations; and group information management. Yet Bergman and Whittaker have found in their pioneering PIM research that these other methods that work best for public information management don't work as well for personal information management. Bergman and Whittaker describe personal information collection as curation: we preserve and organize this data to ensure our future access to it. Unlike other information management fields, in PIM the same user organizes and retrieves the information. After explaining the cognitive and psychological reasons that so many prefer folders, Bergman and Whittaker propose the user-subjective approach to PIM, which does not replace folder hierarchies but exploits these unique characteristics of PIM.

Author : Hannes Werthner,Carlo Ghezzi,Jeff Kramer,Julian Nida-Rümelin,Bashar Nuseibeh,Erich Prem,Allison Stanger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031453045

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Introduction to Digital Humanism by Hannes Werthner,Carlo Ghezzi,Jeff Kramer,Julian Nida-Rümelin,Bashar Nuseibeh,Erich Prem,Allison Stanger Pdf

This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a better society and life, fully respecting universal human rights. The book is organized in three parts: Part I “Background” provides the multidisciplinary background needed to understand digital humanism in its philosophical, cultural, technological, historical, social, and economic dimensions. The goal is to present the necessary knowledge upon which an effective interdisciplinary discourse on digital humanism can be founded. Part II “Digital Humanism – a System’s View” focuses on an in-depth presentation and discussion of the main digital humanism concerns arising in current digital systems. The goal of this part is to make readers aware and sensitive to these issues, including e.g. the control and autonomy of AI systems, privacy and security, and the role of governance. Part III “Critical and Societal Issues of Digital Systems” delves into critical societal issues raised by advances of digital technologies. While the public debate in the past has often focused on them separately, especially when they became visible through sensational events the aim here is to shed light on the entire landscape and show their interconnected relationships. This includes issues such as AI and ethics, fairness and bias, privacy and surveillance, platform power and democracy. This textbook is intended for students, teachers, and policy makers interested in digital humanism. It is designed for stand-alone and for complementary courses in computer science, or curricula in science, engineering, humanities and social sciences. Each chapter includes questions for students and an annotated reading list to dive deeper into the associated chapter material. The book aims to provide readers with as wide an exposure as possible to digital advances and their consequences for humanity. It includes constructive ideas and approaches that seek to ensure that our collective digital future is determined through human agency.

Author : Aaron D. Purcell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781538122396

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The Digital Archives Handbook by Aaron D. Purcell Pdf

The Digital Archives Handbook provides archivists a roadmap to create and care for digital archives. Written by archival experts and practitioners, Purcell brings together theoretical and practical approaches to creating, managing, and preserving digital archives. The first section is focused on processes and practices, including chapters on acquisitions, appraisal, arrangement, description, delivery, preservation, forensics, curation, and intellectual property. The second section is focused on digital collections and specific environments where archivists are managing digital collections. These chapters review digital collections in categories including performing arts, oral history, architectural and design records, congressional collections, and email. The book discuss the core components of digital archives—the technological infrastructure that provides storage, access, and long-term preservation; the people or organizations that create or donate digital material to archives programs, as well as the researchers use them; and the digital collections themselves, full of significant research content in a variety of formats with a multitude of research possibilities. The chapters emphasize that the people and the collections that make up digital archives are just as important as the technology. Also highlighted are the importance of donors and creators of digital archives. Building digital archives parallels the cycle of donor work—planning, cultivation, and stewardship. During each stage, archivists work with donors to ensure that the digital collections will be arranged, described, preserved, and made accessible for years to come. Archivists must take proactive and informed actions to build valuable digital collections. Knowing where digital materials come from, how those materials were created, what materials are important, what formats or topical areas are included, and how to serve those collections to researchers in the long term is central to archival work. This handbook is designed to generate new discussions about how archivists of the twenty-first century can overcome current challenges and chart paths that anticipate, rather than merely react to, future donations of digital archives.

Author : Melody Karle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442278882

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Managing the Digital You by Melody Karle Pdf

Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life is a much-needed guide for those struggling with how to manage and preserve their digital items. Starting with a values assessment, this book helps readers identify what items are important to them personally so that they can effectively prioritize their time and effort. Covering multimedia, correspondence, legacy planning, password protection, photos, non-digital documents, financial and legal documents, and even social media archiving, this comprehensive text addresses how to get started and how to develop a plan for managing existing and future items. Features include: Value assessment exercises to help readers identify what is a preservation priority to them personally Best practices for managing digital financial and legal documents How to save things from multiple devices, as well as social media sites Recommendations for scheduling maintenance activities and automating backup Guidelines for creating a personal management plan so that users are prepared to handle new and existing documents, photos, and other digital material for ongoing access After reading this short primer, readers will be ready to: better organize and identify what they already have in a digital form, have a personal plan for knowing what to discard and what to retain, know how to digitize papers, photographs, voicemail, preserve email and social media postings, and set up a workable long-term file naming and organizational structure.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology
ISBN : UCLA:L0051022812

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International Journal of Technology Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Connie Manson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047579183

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Science Editing and Information Management by Connie Manson Pdf

Author : C Edward Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0876503962

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Media Review Digest by C Edward Wall Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Information science
ISBN : UOM:39015079680461

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Library & Information Science Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Marketing
ISBN : UCLA:L0099922098

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Marketing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Information science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211724120

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Library Literature & Information Science by Anonim Pdf

An index to library and information science literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN : PSU:000059797203

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Campus Technology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher J. Prom,Ellen D. Swain
Publisher : Rittenhouse Book Distributors
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132074365

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College and University Archives by Christopher J. Prom,Ellen D. Swain Pdf

The 13 essays in this volume offer provocative commentary and analysis in the ways archivists might better document college and university campuses and serve users. Three intertwined themes run throughout the reader: the opportunities and challenges posed by ever-changing technology, the importance of cooperation and collaboration beyond the walls of the archives, and the necessity of a proactive approach in undertaking the academic archival enterprise. As the essays gathered here demonstrate, archivists can and must play an active role in documenting the character and history of their institutions by applying their talents to the challenges in this new century. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Association of Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Library science
ISBN : UVA:X030294407

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ARL by Association of Research Libraries Pdf

Author : Melvil Dewey,Richard Rogers Bowker,L. Pylodet,Charles Ammi Cutter,Bertine Emma Weston,Karl Brown,Helen E. Wessells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015081490461

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Library Journal by Melvil Dewey,Richard Rogers Bowker,L. Pylodet,Charles Ammi Cutter,Bertine Emma Weston,Karl Brown,Helen E. Wessells Pdf

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.