from Memex to PKM
Journal of Knowledge Management Practice: Library
Journal of Knowledge Management Practice Editorial Welcome to a unique experiment in journal publishing - the open library concept. In this approach you the reader have open access to all articles that have been, and are currently being, published in JKMP.
Memex
As We May Think - Magazine
As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased.
Personal knowledge management
Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a collection of processes that a person uses to gather, classify, store, search, retrieve, and share knowledge in his or her daily activities ( Grundspenkis 2007 ) and the way in which these processes support work activities ( Wright 2005 ). It is a response to the idea that knowledge workers increasingly need to be responsible for their own growth and learning. ( Smedley 2009 ) It is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management (KM), as opposed to more traditional, top-down KM. ( Pollard 2008 ) [ edit ] History and Background
Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush was never directly involved with the creation or development of the Internet. He died before the creation of the World Wide Web. Yet many consider Bush to be the Godfather of our wired age often making reference to his 1945 essay, " As We May Think ." In his article, Bush described a theoretical machine he called a "memex," which was to enhance human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations.
The Vision Over the last few years, I’ve been interested in the fields of Personal Knowledge Management (or PKM) and Personal Learning Environments (or PLE). I’ve been a knowledge worker as long as I can remember, and have subsequently searched long and hard for numerous software applications and systems to help me better process, organize, and retrieve information. I’ve tried many different free and commercial solutions (outliners, PIMs, personal knowledge bases, mind mapping software, notebooks/pad, etc.), but none of then were 100% complete in my mind.
