Learning from Human Memory: Managed Forgetting and Contextualized Remembering for Digital Memories

In the human brain, forgetting is a very effective way of focusing on the important things, while unstressing irrelevant details. In the ForgetIT project, we use forgetting and other processes in the human brain such as the context-driven reconstruction of memories as an inspiration for creating intelligent methods for joint information and preservation management. In this paper, we present selected results of the ForgetIT project with a special focus on the concept of managed forgetting in digital memories and on personal preservation.