2005-08-04
it :: hate one dimensional hierarchies
Well, if you can't stand stacks of folders nor the resulting one dimensional hierarchies and if the unix-like alias system is not really satisfying your outbreak -- then read on.
Let's get rid of folders and filenames alltogether. People think differently anyhow. Usually a document fits into more than one area. Live is multidimensional anyway. So how may a solution look like?
Operating systems from now on include desktop search engines with full text indexing. Filetypes allow metadata for years. CSV or Subversion allow versioning. Flicker developed tagging into an art form.
What about this: the datastore is always online therefor in the internet at home or centrally hosted. Your content can be in multiple virtual groups at a time. The sharing of this content can be graphically defined through a circle of sharing (radially growing rings from ego to internet with sectors for work, live, family, hobby, vicinity, etc.). If a document or document group is shared to a group represented by a ring-sector this sector will be colored. Separate individuals
are marked by a colored pixel in their ring-sector.
A central issue is easeing read/write access to metadata. On any search with a wrong hit one can easily add a tag to clarify the content of the document. Groups can also be tagged. A strong classification of Metadata ensures richer forms of search. Examples for classification would be EXIF data or versioning date and person stamp of text documents.
Let's get rid of folders and filenames alltogether. People think differently anyhow. Usually a document fits into more than one area. Live is multidimensional anyway. So how may a solution look like?
Operating systems from now on include desktop search engines with full text indexing. Filetypes allow metadata for years. CSV or Subversion allow versioning. Flicker developed tagging into an art form.
What about this: the datastore is always online therefor in the internet at home or centrally hosted. Your content can be in multiple virtual groups at a time. The sharing of this content can be graphically defined through a circle of sharing (radially growing rings from ego to internet with sectors for work, live, family, hobby, vicinity, etc.). If a document or document group is shared to a group represented by a ring-sector this sector will be colored. Separate individuals
are marked by a colored pixel in their ring-sector.
A central issue is easeing read/write access to metadata. On any search with a wrong hit one can easily add a tag to clarify the content of the document. Groups can also be tagged. A strong classification of Metadata ensures richer forms of search. Examples for classification would be EXIF data or versioning date and person stamp of text documents.
# posted by Olaf Zanger @ 21:02 
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