%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:431 %A Wu, Harris %A Gordon, Michael D. G. %A Demaagd, Kurt %D 2004 %I ACM Press %J Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems %K categorization chi04 classification %P 1211--1214 %R 10.1145/985921.986026 %T Document co-organization in an online knowledge community %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=986026 %X We introduce the concept of "document co-organization" and describe such a system. By document co-organization we mean that individuals are allowed to hierarchically organize documents personally and share their hierarchies with others, while the system generates a "consensus" hierarchy from these personal hierarchies, which provides a full, common, and emergent view of all documents. By allowing users to retrieve documents from their own organization (hierarchy), another user's, the consensus hierarchy, or a time-based hierarchy, we provide access corresponding to different characteristics of knowledge tasks: they are personal, collective, social, and time-sensitive. In a class website experiment, we show that for a complex knowledge task, hierarchies are used more frequently than search. One surprising finding is how often students use others' personal hierarchies.

@inproceedings{citeulike:431, abstract = {We introduce the concept of "document co-organization" and describe such a system. By document co-organization we mean that individuals are allowed to hierarchically organize documents personally and share their hierarchies with others, while the system generates a "consensus" hierarchy from these personal hierarchies, which provides a full, common, and emergent view of all documents. By allowing users to retrieve documents from their own organization (hierarchy), another user's, the consensus hierarchy, or a time-based hierarchy, we provide access corresponding to different characteristics of knowledge tasks: they are personal, collective, social, and time-sensitive. In a class website experiment, we show that for a complex knowledge task, hierarchies are used more frequently than search. One surprising finding is how often students use others' personal hierarchies.}, added-at = {2007-04-30T23:31:46.000+0200}, author = {Wu, Harris and Gordon, Michael D. G. and Demaagd, Kurt}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f9fa1ffe06a52ccdd767dbcbb5d2acff/jboy701}, citeulike-article-id = {431}, description = {imported from citeulike}, doi = {10.1145/985921.986026}, interhash = {a883d8371a3c4ac9cb5fb3ef99a188ff}, intrahash = {f9fa1ffe06a52ccdd767dbcbb5d2acff}, journal = {Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, keywords = {categorization chi04 classification}, pages = {1211--1214}, priority = {5}, publisher = {ACM Press}, timestamp = {2007-04-30T23:31:46.000+0200}, title = {Document co-organization in an online knowledge community}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=986026}, year = 2004 }