Velez-Morales, Javier

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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