PIM for Gecks

For those of us who cannot attend SIGIR 2006 up in Seattle, we can at least read the position papers and posters of the PIM workshop participants. An impressive community of researchers indeed.

Am looking at the papers describing the flow of information between public and private spaces. We in the library world should start taking note of this and design services to help our users manage that. Next week, I will be doing a presentation on the identity of information resources (call numbers, ISBN, ISSN, DOI, URI, SICI, etc.) and how these relate to workflows in libraries and data flows between agents in the publishing supply chain. It would be nice to also study how users use these information ‘nomenclature’ to find and keep information objects.