PIM frameworks

Deborah Barreau

To understand how PIM is performed, Deborah Barreau tried to dismember it and so divided it in 5 sub- activities:

• Acquisition: deciding which information will be included in information space, defining, la- belling and grouping information.
• Organization and Storage: classifying, naming, grouping and placing information for later retrieval.
• Maintenance: updating out-of-date information, backing up information, moving or deleting information from information space.
• Retrieval: process of finding information for reuse and • Output: visualizing the information space based on users’ needs and objectives.