Personal Information Management (PIM) refers to the practice and the study of the activities a person performs in order to acquire or create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, use, and distribute information in each of its many forms (paper and digital, in e-mails, files, Web pages, text messages, tweets, posts, etc.) as needed to meet life's many goals (everyday and long-term, work-related and not) and to fulfill life's many roles and responsibilities (as parent, spouse, friend, employee, member of community, etc.). PIM activities are an effort to establish, use, and maintain a mapping between information and need. Activities of finding (and re-finding) move from a current need toward information while activities of keeping move from encountered information toward anticipated need. Meta-level activities such as maintaining, organizing, and managing the flow of information focus on the mapping itself. Tools and techniques of PIM can promote information integration with benefits for each kind of PIM activity and across the life cycle of personal information. Understanding how best to accomplish this integration without inadvertently creating problems along the way is a key challenge of PIM.
翻译:个人信息管理(PIM)是指对一个人为了获取或创造、储存、组织、维护、检索、使用和传播信息而开展的活动的实践和研究(纸和数字、电子邮件、档案、网页、文本信息、推文、邮政等),这是满足生活的许多目标(日常和长期、与工作相关或非工作相关)以及履行生活的许多角色和责任(作为父母、配偶、朋友、雇员、社区成员等)所必需的。 PIM活动是努力在信息和需要之间建立、使用和保持一种绘图。发现(和再调查)活动从目前的需要转向信息,同时从遇到的信息转向预期的需要。诸如维持、组织和管理信息流动以图象本身为焦点的虚拟活动。PIM的工具和技术可以促进信息整合,为PIM的每一种活动和个人信息的整个生命周期带来好处。了解如何最佳地完成这一整合而不会在无意中造成问题,这是PIM的一个关键挑战。