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MyLifeBits: fulfilling the Memex vision
Abstract
MyLifeBits is a project to fulfill the Memex vision first posited by Vannevar Bush in 1945. It is a system for storing all of one's digital media, including documents, images, sounds, and videos. It is built on four principles: (1) collections and search must replace hierarchy for organization (2) many visualizations should be supported (3) annotations are critical to non-text media and must be made easy, and (4) authoring should be via transclusion.
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- Authors
- Gemmell, J., Bell, G., Lueder, R., Drucker, S., & Wong, C.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2002-12
- Pages
- 235-238
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- W2108666265
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- 41.00
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- conference paper
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- en
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