Information archiving with bookmarks

1999

Bookmarks are the facilities found in current web browsers, which allow a user to revisit a WWW page. Most WWW browsers provide a hierarchical structure for aiding bookmark organization in searchable subsets. Average users tend to create a large number of bookmarks during multiple browsing sessions and con- sequently such hierarchies quickly become complex and hard to manage. Moreover, it

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011

Information and knowledge society brings a new context where technology enhanced tools are key elements for being able to find, evaluate, use and communicate information effectively and efficiently [1]. Bookmarking tools could be the essential tools for supporting information behaviour, specifically information managing and communication. This paper analyses the user experience of existing bookmarking and social bookmarking tools in an e-learning environment. The educational setting provides the required environment to truly study these tools, since their success is not only in the ease of storing, tagging and sharing resources at a given moment in time but in how these resources will be retrieved when needed in the future. In this paper we present a functional analysis and the usability inspection of the tools that support the management and usage of information resources both during short and long terms.

2005

Abstract One of the greatest challenges facing people who use large information spaces is to remember and retrieve items that they have previously found and thought to be interesting. One approach to this problem is to allow individuals to save particular search strings to re-create the search in the future. Another approach has been to allow people to create personal collections of material—for example, the use of electronic citation bundles (called binders) in the ACM Digital Library.

International Journal of Web Information Systems, 2018

Purpose Modern Web browsers all provide a history function that allows users to see a list of URLs they have visited in chronological order. The history log contains rich information but is seldom used because of the tedious nature of scrolling through long lists. This paper aims to propose a new way to improve users’ Web browsing experience by analyzing, clustering and visualizing their browsing history. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed a system called Personal Web Library to help users develop awareness of and understand their Web browsing patterns, identify their topics of interest and retrieve previously visited Web pages more easily. Findings User testing showed that this system is usable and attractive. It found that users can easily see patterns and trends at different time granularities, recall pages from the past and understand the local context of a browsing session. Its flexibility provides users with much more information than the traditional history fun...

Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter, 2017

Refinding information is a frequent yet difficult task on the Web. Various Web tools have demonstrated that context plays an important role in memorizing cues for retrieval. However, it is not yet sufficiently explored, which type of context is useful for which situations. We carried out a three-stage study to observe how users approach context in bookmarking and retrieval. First, an on-line survey revealed that most users identified some types of context helpful for refinding. Further, an analysis of bookmarks created with a prototypical tool showed that users' choice of types of context depended on the personal relevance of the content. Finally, the success of retrieval depended on the accuracy and specificity of users' recall. Contextual cues seem to improve success rates when there is a gap in semantic memory. These results tentatively imply that contextual indicators should become part of both the bookmarking and retrieval process.

Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia - HT '10, 2010

Refinding information has been interwoven with web activity since its early beginning. Even though all common web browsers were equipped with a history list and bookmarks early enough to facilitate this need, most users typically use search engines to refind information. However, both bookmarks and search based tools have significant limitations that impact their usability: the former are known to be hard to manage over the course of time, whereas the latter require the user to recall a specific combination of keywords or context. Most importantly, though, both are particularly inappropriate in cases where a piece of information is contained within an unstructured web page. In this paper, we present in-context annotation as a more efficient alternative to these methodologies. To verify this claim, we conducted a study in which we compare the performance of experienced users in all three approaches while revisiting specific pieces of information in the web after a long period of time. The outcomes suggest that incontext annotation clearly outperforms both traditional strategies.

Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1997

Web browser bookmarking facilities predominate as the method of choice for managing URLs. In this paper, we describe some deficiencies of current bookmarking schemes, and examine an alternative to current approaches. We present WebTagge?, an implemented prototype of a personal bookmarking service that provides both individuals and groups with a customizable means of organizing and accessing Web-based information resources. In addition, the service enables users to supply feedback on the utility of these resources relative to their information needs, and provides dynamically-updated ranking of resources based on incremental user feedback. Individuals may access the service from anywhere on the Internet, and require no special software. This service greatly simplifies the process of sharing URLs within groups, in comparison with manua1 methods involving email. The underlying bookmark organization scheme is more natural and flexible than current hierarchical schemes supported by the major Web browsers, and enables rapid access to stored bookmarks. 0 1997 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.

This paper presents an ongoing study of the development of a customizable web browser information organization and management system, which the author has named Lexicon Sextant (LS). LS is a user friendly, graphical web based add-on to the latest generation of web browsers, such as Google Chrome, making it easier and more intuitive to store and retrieve favorites (bookmarks) since it only uses two levels (six main headings & 12 sub-headings). A total of 98 participants completed the task of categorizing 18 thumbnails from specific websites, together with 18 thumbnails from random websites, under six main LS headings, i.e. Work, Lifestyle, Travel, Health, Education, and Money. This was followed by a recall exercise of 12 randomly generated websites. The results showed that the participants had a better correction rate in Money and Lifestyle, but a worse correction rate in Work and Education among the overall correction rate, appointed correction rate, and self-chosen correction rate, in terms of each category task performance.

2007

In this work we introduce Semantic Turkey, a Semantic Extension for the popular web browser Mozilla Firefox. Semantic Turkey can be used to keep track of relevant information from visited web sites and organize collected content according to a personally defined ontology.

WebNet, 2001

As more information is made available online, users collect information in personal information spaces like bookmarks and emails. While most users feel that organizing these collections is crucial to improve access, studies have shown that this activity is time consuming and highly cognitive. Automatic classification has been used but by relying on the full text of the documents, they do not generate personalized classifications. Our approach is to give users the ability to annotate their documents as they first access them. This annotation tool is unobtrusive and welcome by most users who generally miss this facility when dealing with digital documents. Our experiments show that these annotations can be used to generate personalized classifications of annotated Web pages.