What research have you done on available products and papers on information organization so far? Have you compiled a list or made a wiki somewhere that we could take a look at?
- Fredrik On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, plnelson <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to come up with a better scheme for organizing files and > folders on my PC and networked drives. I do photography plus sw > and web design, so the file types are varied, including raw, TIFF and > JPEG images, text and Word files, spreadsheets, C# and C++ source > files, HTML, CSS, javascript, icon, and other sw development files, > plus audio and video files in various formats. As of this morning I > had about 40,000 files on my desktop PC and maybe another 100,000 > files on networked storage, and I really DO need to search these from > time to time. A typical example is that I'm writing some code and I > know I once wrote a class to do something similar awhile back so I > want to find it. This morning I wanted to find all the high-key > studio shots I've done in the last few years to get ideas for a > model shoot I have next week. > > I am NOT looking for personal advice here - there have been several > threads on this topic in the archives on ixda and invariably they are > met with advice that begins with "Here's what I do . . . " I'm > not interested in anecdotal accounts (yet) - > > What I AM looking for are sources of rigorous academic research on > information organization and searching that I can use in developing a > solution. A good solution should involve human factors and > interaction design, information theory and information architecture, > and data representation. Presumably I'm not the first person to > try to apply some real science to this problem so I'm wondering what > researchers have discovered. > > Thanks in advance. > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ||| | | ||| | || ||| ||| || | | ||| | |||| |||| || | | || Fredrik Matheson [email protected] +47 982 19 313 movito.net twitter.com/movito ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
