Personal Information for a world as we want it to be

William Jones led a discussion on Personal Information Management (PIM); he also reviewed his findings from the Keeping Found Things Found (KFTF) project. In this report, I will assume that the reader is familiar with KFTF’s findings. Instead, I will point out some comments and discussion by the audience.

Are there Ontomon?

Are there ontomon? Looking for types of information organization frameworks and systems by Joe Tennis

Situation:
Consider wickedary, flickr, Connotea, the Gene Ontology, open archives initiatives, etc… Social tagging is blooming, ontology engineering is on the rise, people seek to promote vocabulary interoperation, etc…

Analysis:
The armchair scholar in knowledge organization states, “This proliferation is evidence of a need for sound knowledge organization principles. These people are organizing information, but they are organizing it wrong.” An opposing stance is that this organizing behaviour will improve the scholars understanding of Knowledge Organization.

In other words, Joe Tennis believes that they are worth studying. But how?