The MyLifeBits lifetime store

ABSTRACT

Storage trends have brought us to the point where it is affordable to keep a complete digital record of one's life, and capture methods are multiplying. To experiment with a lifetime store, we are digitizing everything possible from Gordon Bell's life. The MyLifeBits system is designed to store and manage a lifetime's worth of data. MyLifeBits enables the capture of web pages, telephone, radio and television. This demonstration highlights the application of typed links and database features to make a lifetime store something that is truly useful.

REFERENCES

• 1: Vannevar Bush. As We May Think, The Atlantic Monthly 176(1), July 1945, 101--108.
• 2: Jim Gemmell , Gordon Bell , Roger Lueder , Steven Drucker , Curtis Wong, MyLifeBits: fulfilling the Memex vision, Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia, December 01-06, 2002, Juan-les-Pins, France [doi>10.1145/641007.641053]
• 3: Jim Gemmell, Roger Lueder, and Gordon Bell, Living With a Lifetime Store, ATR Workshop on Ubiquitous Experience Media, Sept. 9--10, 2003, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 69--76

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.0 General

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management

Keywords:
Memex, annotation, database, hypermedia, multimedia