''The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff'' is a book about
personal information management
Personal information management (PIM) is the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire or create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, and use information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages, and email mes ...
(PIM) written by
Ofer Bergman and
Steve Whittaker. It was published in 2016 by
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States). It was established in 1962.
History
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. 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. It has three parts: Personal Information Management: The Curation Perspective, Hierarchical Folders and Their Alternatives, and The User-Subjective Approach to PIM Systems Design.
In his review for the ''
'', 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.
Dorothy Waugh's review, published in the ''
American Archivist
The ''American Archivist'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal and the official publication of the Society of American Archivists. It covers theoretical and practical developments in archival science, particularly in North America. The j ...
'', praised the book as an "excellent introduction" to PIM, but noted that the studies cited by the authors were somewhat dated.
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References
2016 non-fiction books
Information management
MIT Press books
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