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Table of contents
Challenges in building and using a Lifetime Personal Information Store based on MyLifeBits
The 1 TB Life
Everything goes in a database
MyLifeBits Software
Memex As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, 1945
I am data
The guinea pig
Capture and encoding
I mean everything
50+ year old newspaper clippings
400 year old books
O(100s) tapes from videotape “black hole”
Personal LifeLog Applications
Personal Search is not Professional or Web search
Why bother? ..some reasons
So you’ve got it – now what do you do with it?
Using my life bits: beyond folders
My docs and archive
Freedom from hierarchy
Using my life bits: easily adding valuable content
“Its just bits until it is annotated”
Getting the user to tell a story is the ultimate in media value
Annotation like this…
Annotation when you feel like it, how you feel like it
Using my life bits: the value of time & time posts
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M Stewart Lifeline v2
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Using my life bits: Where, an essential attribute
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Using my life bits: pivoting on data to aid recall
MyLifeBits Entities & Links
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Using my life bits: never enough meta-data … but, can you afford it?b
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Lederberg Finder page
Dublin core of a given item
Using my life bits: classification of everything
Is traditional classification required?
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www.alberteinstein.info
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Lederberg papers official reports
Lederberg Artifact types
Species: Animals: Chordata: Vertebrata: bony fish
Computer structures: digital computer: minicomputer (refined: Digital Equipment Corp.)
Computer structures taxonomy: computers
Classification wish list
Using my life bits: Ontologies… useful? or fool’s errand?
MyLifeBits: Some Lives(t)
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Using my life bits: Providing insight, including… Where did I spend my time? What has been by output?
Interface to xls
TV Usage
Using my life bits: Recording everything!
The A/V/real time data Future: new capture modes/devices
Sensecam & Interactive jewellery
Open Problems
The Agenda for the Tbyte(s), Lifetime, PC: The killer app after office and mail.searching
www.MyLifeBits.com
The “dear appy” problem
A Storocratic Oath
The killer app??
Author:
Gordon Bell
E-mail:
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