MyLifeBits: fulfilling the Memex vision

  • Authors:
  • Jim Gemmell;Gordon Bell;Roger Lueder;Steven Drucker;Curtis Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, San Francisco, CA;Microsoft Research, San Francisco, CA;Microsoft Research, San Francisco, CA;Microsoft Research, San Francisco, CA;Microsoft Research, San Francisco, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2002

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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.