Gérer son information personnelle au moyen de la navigation par facettes

Abstract

This article introduces Weena, a personal information management (PIM) system enabling faceted navigation in a personal collection. Re-finding information items can be achieved in particular through the related people (social facet) and temporal period (temporal facets) in addition to traditional hierarchical browsing and text search. Participants in the evaluation effectively used those facets and expressed an interest for the approach. Faceted navigation is therefore a viable and promising alternative to hierarchical browsing and text search, the two more traditional re-finding means in PIM.