William Paul Jones
American information scientist
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William Paul Jones's Degrees
- PhD Information Science Stanford University
- Masters Library and Information Science University of California, Berkeley
Why Is William Paul Jones Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Paul Jones is a pioneer of the field of personal information management . He has written extensively on the topic, holds seven patents relating to search and personal information management, and was noted for his early contribution to Planz. In 2005, he organized a seminal National Science Foundation -sponsored event the His 2007 Annual Review of Information Systems and Technology survey Personal Information Management continues to be strongly cited. His 2008 book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management was well-received and followed by a three-book series, The Future of Personal Information Management, and articles in the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. This and other work describing a framework for understanding personal information management has been called "highly influential" by recognized researchers in the field of PIM. Jones' project Keeping Found Things Found was the subject of a 2004 New York Times article and a 2005 Seattle Times piece.
William Paul Jones's Published Works
Published Works
- Personal information management (2004) (624)
- Don't take my folders away!: organizing personal information to get ghings done (2005) (204)
- Once found, what then? A study of "keeping" behaviors in the personal use of Web information (2005) (161)
- Data unification in personal information management (2006) (130)
- Finders, keepers? The present and future perfect in support of personal information management (2004) (115)
- Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (2007) (111)
- Keeping and re-finding information on the web: What do people do and what do they need? (2005) (100)
- Better to organize personal information by folders or by tags?: The devil is in the details (2008) (82)
- The universal labeler: Plan the project and let your information follow (2006) (56)
- Keeping encountered information (2006) (48)
- Improving firearm storage in Alaska native villages: a randomized trial of household gun cabinets. (2012) (45)
- I give up! Five factors that contribute to the abandonment of information management strategies (2008) (37)
- The Future of Personal Information Management, Part I: Our Information, Always and Forever (2012) (35)
- Community based program to improve firearm storage practices in rural Alaska (2003) (35)
- "For Telling" the Present: Using the Delphi Method to Understand Personal Information Management Practices (2015) (35)
- "It's about the information stupid!": why we need a separate field of human-information interaction (2006) (31)
- The personal project planner: planning to organize personal information (2008) (30)
- Keeping Found Things Found (2007) (26)
- Personal Information Management (PIM) (2010) (25)
- No knowledge but through information (2010) (25)
- Personal information management in the present and future perfect: Reports from a special NSF-sponsored workshop (2006) (21)
- Planning personal projects and organizing personal information (2007) (20)
- For Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness or in Health...: The Long-Term Management of Personal Information (2016) (20)
- Seeking an ideal solution to the management of personal information collections (2011) (18)
- Many views, many modes, many tools ... one structure: Towards a Non-disruptive Integration of Personal Information (2011) (18)
- Planz to put our digital information in its place (2010) (16)
- How people keep and organize personal information (2007) (14)
- Personal information management (PIM) 2008 (2008) (13)
- Building a Better World with Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 3 (2015) (10)
- Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information: The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 2 (2013) (10)
- "Get real!": what's wrong with hci prototyping and how can we fix it? (2007) (8)
- Introduction to keeping, refinding and sharing personal information (2008) (8)
- It's All the Same to Me: Data Unification in Personal Information Management (2006) (7)
- Once Found, What Then? (2002) (7)
- XooML: XML in support of many tools working on a single organization of personal information (2011) (6)
- Effects of mental health reform on client characteristics, continuity of care and community tenure (1994) (6)
- The disappearing desktop: pim 2008 (2008) (5)
- Towards a unification & integration of PIM support (2005) (5)
- Representing our information structures for research and for everyday use (2012) (5)
- Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information (2014) (5)
- Making It Real: Towards Practical Progress in the Management of Personal Information (2016) (5)
- Project contexts to situate personal information (2006) (4)
- Fire risk assessment method:: case study 4, interior finish in restaurants (1990) (3)
- The Future of Personal Information Management (2012) (2)
- My so-called life on the web (2009) (1)
- Session details: Personal information management (2006) (1)
- Building a Better World with Our Information (2015) (1)
- Book Review Personal Information Management (0)
- ANIMAL SUFFERING IN FACTORY FARMING AND THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT IT (2013) (0)
- Now do you know where your information is? Perspectives on the present and future of personal information management (2005) (0)
- In Support of External Representations for Personal Information Management (2005) (0)
- The Challenge of Personal Information Management (2005) (0)
- Electronic access to scientific information (2004) (0)
- Personal digital collections (2007) (0)
- Why can't Johnny file? And what can we do to help? (2005) (0)
- Our information, always and forever (2012) (0)
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