NSF Workshop on Personal Information Management

在理想的情况下，我们应该拥有个人信息管理(PIM)工具，使我们能够在正确的时间、正确的地点、正确的形式获得正确的信息，并且具有足够的完整性和质量来执行当前的活动。然而，如果PIM要接近这一理想，就必须应对重大挑战。尽管PIM很重要，但PIM研究领域目前是支离破碎的。国家科学基金会个人信息管理讲习班将汇集与会者，代表对个人信息管理的各种观点，以便将个人信息管理作为一种需要和一个调查领域进行评估，特别侧重于计算机技术能够提供帮助的方式。研讨会将编写一份详细的报告，概述PIM研究的路线图，并描述：(1)PIM作为实践和研究领域的现状；(2)如果PIM要改进和如果该领域要取得进展，必须解决的主要挑战；(3)承诺迎接这些挑战的方法，以及关于如何培育这些方法的具体建议，包括PIM教育。该报告将得到广泛传播，预计将对PIM的概念化和PIM研究的方向产生重大影响。在挑选讲习班参与者时和在最后报告的内容中，将特别注意反映各种用户需求，包括少数群体、经济弱势群体、学生、老年人和残疾人的需求。

In the ideal world, we would have Personal Information Management (PIM) tools that would enable us to have the right information at the right time, in the right place, in the right form, and of sufficient completeness and quality to perform the current activity. However, significant challenges must be met if PIM is to approach this ideal. Notwithstanding the importance of PIM, the field of PIM research is currently fragmented. The NSF Workshop on Personal Information Management will bring together participants selected to represent a range of perspectives on PIM in order to assess PIM as a need and as a field of inquiry with special focus on the ways in which computing technology can help. The workshop will produce a detailed report outlining a roadmap for PIM research and describing: (1) the current state of PIM as a practice and a field of research; (2) major challenges that must be addressed if PIM is to improve and if the field is to advance; (3) approaches that promise to meet these challenges and specific suggestions on how these approaches can be nurtured, including PIM education. The report will be widely disseminated and is expected to have a major influence on the conceptualization of PIM and on the direction of PIM research. Special care will be taken, in the selection of workshop participants and in the content of the final report, to represent a diversity of user needs including the needs of minorities, the economically disadvantaged, students, the elderly and the disabled.