PIM links and sources

PIM workshops

PIM Workshops are intended to bring PIM researchers together. Workshops are held every 18 months as a part of a bigger conference.

List of past PIM workshops:

• 2011, May 7-12, CHI 2011, Vancouver
• 2009, November 7-8, ASIS&T 2009 Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• 2008, April 5-6, CHI 2008 Workshop, Florence, Italy
• 2006, August 10-11, SIGIR 2006 Workshop, Seattle, Washington
• 2005, January 27-29, An NSF-Sponsored Invitational Workshop, Seattle, Washington

Bibliographies

A those interested in PIM reaearch, several lists of bibliographies exist. Some are short (good to start with) and some are very long (for advanced and interested in the topic).

• A good starting point is Wikipedia's list of PIM references which includes books as well (books are listed below separately)
• Core readings from Personal Information Management Resource Bank (suggested by some of the most active researchers in the area)
• A comprehensive PIM literature from Personal Information Management Resource Bank
• A short Richard Boardman'd recomended references on PIM COPY on this WIKI
• A list used in a PIM PhD theses is Richad Boardman's PIM references
• The most comprehensive list of papers and books on PIM and related to PIM is available at Univesity of Washington, The Information School, PIM web site
• Renewed Jacek Gwizdka's Email bibliography maintained by Mark Dredze
• Publications of Keeping Found Things Found project
• Bibliography on Nepomuk and Semantic desktop
• Haystack's research group publications
• Information Overload articles from Center for Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada COPY on this site
• Organizational Memory, Mark Ackerman, EECS, University of Michigan

Books

Academic reading

• William Jones, James Teevan (Editors), Personal Information Management, 2007, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. Amazon ISBN 978-0-295-98737-8

Non academic reading

• William Jones, Keeping found things found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management, 2008. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Amazon ISBN 978-0-12-370866-3

Task and information management books from David Allen

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, 2001, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-200028-0
• Ready for Anything, 2003, Viking Books, ISBN 0-670-03250-6
• Making it All Work, 2008, Viking Books, ISBN 978-0-7499-4103-1

Books on information management techniques:

• Personal Information Management: Tools and Techniques for Achieving Professional Effectiveness. Barbara Etzel & Peter Thomas. 1999. 2nd edition. ISBN 978-0814722008

Other Links

• Tales of PIM - Share your PIM problems with others on a forum
• Keeping Found Things Found project
• List of research groups
• Haystack project has an interesting blog maintained by researchers of the group
• SIGCHI announcements mailing list (or RSS) of Cfp for HCI conferences, journals and workshops
• Usability news latest news in usability and HCI
• PIM lifecycle Steve Richards' Blog, Adventures in home working