Building the Memex Sixty Years Later: Trends and Directions in Personal Knowledge Bases
Abstract: Software tools abound for managing documents and other information sources, but are rarely
used for managing the personal, subjective knowledge an individual gleans from them. Yet for at
least sixty years there has been a thread of interest in building a system to support a personalized
repository of knowledge. This survey defines such systems as “personal knowledge bases,”
describes a number of important historical and recent examples, and gives a taxonomy of their
principal characteristics. It concludes by broadly analyzing the design choices involved and
sketching out an ideal solution.
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