MyLifeBits
Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, Roger Lueder, Steven M. Drucker, Curtis Wong · Proceedings of the tenth ACM international conference on Multimedia - MULTIMEDIA '02 · 2002
MyLifeBits is a project to fulfill the Memex vision first posited by Vannevar Bush in 1945. It is a system for storing all of one's digital media, including documents, images, sounds, and videos. It is built on four principles: (1) collections and search must replace hierarchy for organization (2) many visualizations should be supported (3) annotations are critical to non-text media and must be made easy, and (4) authoring should be via transclusion.