The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff

First edition

The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff is a book about personal information management (PIM) written by Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker. It was published in 2016 by MIT Press.[1] The book examines why and how individuals organize their personal digital information, as well as how new PIM systems can make this process more efficient.[2] It has three parts: Personal Information Management: The Curation Perspective, Hierarchical Folders and Their Alternatives, and The User-Subjective Approach to PIM Systems Design.[3]

In his review for the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, William Jones found the book to be a comprehensive overview of Bergman and Whittaker's research work, but felt it was missing key details that would provide readers with a broader and more nuanced understanding of PIM.[4] Dorothy Waugh's review, published in the American Archivist, praised the book as an "excellent introduction" to PIM, but noted that the studies cited by the authors were somewhat dated.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff". MIT Press. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  2. ^ Bergman, Ofer; Whittaker, Steve (2016). The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff (1st ed.). MIT Press. ISBN 9780262035170.
  3. ^ a b Waugh, Dorothy (2018). "Reviews: The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff". American Archivist. 81 (1): 233–237. doi:10.17723/0360-9081-81.1.233.
  4. ^ Jones, William (December 2017). "Book Review: The Science of Managing our Digital Stuff". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 68 (12): 2834–2840. doi:10.1002/asi.23870.


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