Personal Information Organization using Web Annotations

: As more information is made available online, users collect information in personal information spaces like bookmarks and emails. While most users feel that organizing these collections is crucial to improve access, studies have shown that this activity is time consuming and highly cognitive. Automatic classification has been used but by relying on the full text of the documents, they do not generate personalized classifications. Our approach is to give users the ability to annotate their documents as they first access them. This annotation tool is unobtrusive and welcome by most users who generally miss this facility when dealing with digital documents. Our experiments show that these annotations can be used to generate personalized classifications of annotated Web pages.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: WEBNET
• Authors: Laurent Denoue, Laurence Vignollet
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Personal Information Spaces, Personalized Classifications, Users Collect Information, WEBNET 2001