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Personal Data for Personal Use: Vision or Reality?

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The vision of collecting all of one's personal information into one searchable database has been around at least since Vannevar Bush's 1945 paper on the Memex System [2]. In the late 1990's, Gordon Bell and his colleagues at Microsoft Research built MyLifeBits [1, 6], which was the first serious attempt to build such a database. Since then, there has been continued interest in our community to build personal information management systems [3-5, 7, 8, 10]. Recently, the Solid Project proposes a more radical approach to personal information, arguing that all of one's data should reside in their own data pod, and applications should be redesigned to fetch data from the pod [9].

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Yuhan Cai, Xin Luna Dong, Alon Y. Halevy, Jing Michelle Liu, and Jayant Madhavan. 2005. Personal information management with SEMEX. In ACM SIGMOD. 921--923.
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Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Jonathan J. Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins. 2015. Stuff I've Seen: A System for Personal Information Retrieval and Re-Use. SIGIR, Vol. 49, 2 (2015), 28--35.
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Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, and Roger Lueder. 2006. MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything. Commun. ACM, Vol. 49, 1 (2006), 88--95.
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Martin L. Kersten, Gerhard Weikum, Michael J. Franklin, Daniel A. Keim, Alejandro P. Buchmann, and Surajit Chaudhuri. 2003. A Database Striptease or How to Manage Your Personal Databases. In VLDB. 1043--1044.
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Essam Mansour, Andrei Vlad Sambra, Sandro Hawke, Maged Zereba, Sarven Capadisli, Abdurrahman Ghanem, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Tim Berners-Lee. 2016. A Demonstration of the Solid Platform for Social Web Applications. In WWW. ACM, 223--226.
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Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Shant Kirakos Karakashian, Olivier René Girard, and Lukas Blunschi. 2007. iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces. In VLDB. 663--674.

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SIGMOD '23: Companion of the 2023 International Conference on Management of Data
June 2023
330 pages
ISBN:9781450395076
DOI:10.1145/3555041
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