Contextualizing bookmarks: An approach based on user context to improve organization and retrieval of bookmarks

Abstract. The ubiquitous nature of the Internet and the connectivity it provides has rendered a vast amount of information accessible on demand. Consequently an increasing number of people are drawn to this new source of knowledge not just out of curiosity but also for their studies or work. Thus it cannot be overstated that being able to manage efficiently and effectively what we find or learn from the web resources is crucial. The most popular way of preserving such knowledge from the web is through bookmarking web pages. Bookmarks, however, would serve little purpose if they cannot be easily found for re-use. In this paper, we examine current bookmarking tools with the focus on their indexing mechanism and discuss the role and importance of user context in information search and retrieval. Then we propose a new bookmarking tool that offers user context information as additional retrieval cue on top of existing semantic cues such as tags, annotation and formal ontology