NuggetMine is an intelligent groupware application that
collaborates with a workgroup to increase information
nugget sharing among the group. Information nuggets are
small amounts of self-contained information, such as the
URL of an interesting news article, a book title, or the time
and location of a local art event. NuggetMine and the
workgroup work together to build, maintain, and utilize a
repository—or “mine”—of information nuggets. Group
members submit nuggets to NuggetMine, which organizes
and augments the submitted nuggets and provides a desktop
interface to each group member. This interface makes it
easy for group members to submit nuggets, view nuggets,
and explore the mine. NuggetMine distributes the tasks
necessary to share nuggets between it and the workgroup so
as to best utilize the skills of each collaborator. In this
paper, we describe the NuggetMine application and
interface and present a pilot study of the application.