Edit 07\/06\/10<\/p>\n
There are several tools that keep track of document versions or revisions<\/a>. There is even something called versioning file system<\/a> which allows a file to be in several versions at once (think of the Time Machine<\/a> for example or Dropbox<\/a> which does not replace a file, instead it stores another version of it). New MS Office also allows to return to previous states of a document. But … a lot of us just copy a file and start working on a new one<\/strong> leaving the old version alone (I do that if I have to cut out some text out which I think I might use in the future – so the text still remains in the old version). Or copy a file in another folder<\/strong> because it is needed there as well (multi-categorization is not supported by present file systems). Or copy information between several computers<\/strong> we might end up working on a wrong version (why not using Dropbox, right?). <\/p>\n Instead of using sophisticated tools to do this, why aren’t computers (as they are) helping us in another way. Present file systems have Extended File Attributes<\/a> or even forks<\/a> (Alternate Data Streams in NTFS for example) but there is no simple way<\/a> for users to enter additional attributes and not even see them in a file manager. (BeOS had this functionality to add\/edit\/copy file metadata<\/a>).<\/p>\n Metadata could be used to store links to versions of files and much more.<\/p>\n For example: I copy a file from one folder to another<\/em>. I select one of them<\/em> and a file manager<\/em> could:<\/p>\n MyLifeBits (Gemmell et. al., MyLifeBits<\/a>: Fulfilling the Memex vision, 2002) preserved links of a part from one media was copied to another; Karger (Data unification in PIM, 2006<\/a>) also argues that copying and pasting parts of information should be noticed by computers to preserve context integrity of information (see Information Granularity<\/a>). Bergman (The user-subjective approach to personal information In addition, these attributes could contain other information. These information could be grouped (links (to files, URLs, email), Edit 07\/06\/10 There are several tools that keep track of document versions or revisions. There is even something called versioning file system which allows a file to be in several versions at once (think of the Time Machine for example or Dropbox which does not replace a file, instead it stores another version of it)....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[83,56,84,85],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-pim-research","category-8-software-interfaces","tag-metadata","tag-pim","tag-version","tag-versoning-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n management systems design<\/a>, 2003) also argues that context should be captured and added to information – he calls this external context (while internal context is user’s thoughts and temporal the state in which information was left).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nvisited or an email I have in my Inbox (similar to the previous one). <\/li>\n
\nMyLifeBits (Gordon Bell et.al., MyLifeBits<\/a>: fulfilling the Memex vision,
\n 2002) allowed users to easily enter annotations (also audio annotations
\n which were converted to text) to all digital media and predefined
\nannotations were available as well (like thumbs up<\/em><\/strong> and thumbs
\ndown<\/strong><\/em> to annotate the importance of information). Bergman (The user-subjective approach to personal information
\n management systems design<\/a>, 2003) also stressed out the importance of
\nsubjective value-added attributes. Other attributes might be deadlines<\/strong>, reminders<\/strong>, colour codes for actions<\/strong> (Bellotti et. al., Email to task<\/a>, 2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nmodifications, printing …) for easier access (for each file separately) and even presented at the folder level as Folder activities<\/em>. Attributes could be entered to folders as well (from computer’s point of view, folders are just files that can contain other files). Possibilities are limitless. Jones (The personal project planner: planning to
\norganize personal information, 2008<\/a>) developed the Project Planner<\/strong> which allows users to write a project plan in a Word like environment while file hierarchy of folders and files is created in the background<\/a>. I’d argue that users have to see what is happening with information. Users could organize their projects in the same manner taking annotations of a project in a hierarchy itself (in the same Folder activities<\/em> box) and see the file hierarchy changing side-by-side in real time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"