Context and linking in retrieval from personal digital archives

ABSTRACT

Advances in digital capture and storage technologies mean that it is now possible to capture and store one's entire life experiences in personal digital archives. These vast personal archives (or Human Digital Memories (HDMs)) pose new challenges and opportunities for the research community, not the least of which is developing effective means of retrieval from HDMs. Personal archive retrieval research is still in its infancy and there is much scope for novel research. My PhD proposes to develop effective HDM retrieval algorithms by combining rich sources of context associated with items, such as location and people present data, with information obtained by linking HDM items in novel ways.

REFERENCES

• 1: L. Kelly and G.J.F. Jones. Venturing into the Labyrinth: the Information Retrieval Challenge of Human Digital Memories. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Supporting Human Memory with Interactive Systems, at British HCI 2007, 2007.
• 2: M. Fuller and L. Kelly and G.J.F. Jones. Applying contextual memory cues for retrieval from personal information archives. In PIM 2008: Proceedings of Personal Information Management, at CHI 2008, 2008.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval

General Terms:
Algorithms

Keywords:
context-based retrieval, human digital memories, personal information management