Venturing into the Labyrinth: the Information Retrieval Challenge of Human Digital Memories
Year: 2007
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Advances in digital capture and storage technologies mean\nthat it is now possible to capture and store one’s entire life experiences in a Human Digital Memory (HDM). However,\nthese vast personal archives are of little benefit if an individual cannot locate and retrieve significant items from\nthem. While potentially offering exciting opportunities to\nsupport a user in their activities by providing access to information stored from previous experiences, we believe that the features of HDM datasets present new research challenges for information retrieval which must be addressed if these possibilities are to be realised. Specifically we postulate that effective retrieval from HDMs must exploit the rich sources of context data which can be captured and associated with items stored within them. User’s memories\nof experiences stored within their memory archive will often\nbe linked to these context features. We suggest how such\ncontextual metadata can be exploited within the retrieval\nprocess.
Authors: Liadh Kelly, Gareth J. F. Jones
Institution: Dublin City University
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2168276562