NSF Workshop on Personal Information Management

在理想的世界中，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，以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要实现这一理想，就必须应对重大挑战。尽管PIM的重要性，PIM的研究领域目前是分散的。NSF个人信息管理研讨会将汇集选定的参与者，代表PIM的一系列观点，以评估PIM作为一种需求和一个调查领域，特别关注计算技术可以提供帮助的方式。研讨会将产生一份详细的报告，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要改进和该领域要向前发展，必须解决的主要挑战;（3）承诺应对这些挑战的方法以及如何培养这些方法的具体建议，包括PIM教育。该报告将广泛散发，预计将对PIM的概念化和PIM研究的方向产生重大影响。在挑选讲习班参加者和最后报告的内容时，将特别注意代表各种用户的需要，包括少数群体、经济上处于不利地位的人、学生、老年人和残疾人的需要。

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.