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posted by Editor on Monday June 21, @02:02PM
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Rosario De Chiara writes "We present a novel interface that is designed
to help the user overcome some of the limitations inherited
by the classical hierarchical file system. In fact, common
desktop metaphors are based on top of hierarchical file systems
that have become, far from being a help, a heavy heritage
for any system that manages user’s interactions with a
computer.
Hierarchical file systems are, indeed, a natural, efficient
and economic way to organize data; nevertheless, their
structure restricts possible innovations aimed at making information
retrieval as efficient for users as it is for machines.
VENNFS allows the user to place documents and categories
on a plane allowing files to belong to multiple categories
at once, by using well-known and intuitive Venn diagrams
to represent graphically each category. Placement
on the plane allows users to use proximity (between categories
and files) to represent closeness and similarity. Finally,
VENNFS also offers filtering files by time (i.e. by
the date when file was last modified). VENNFS is smoothly
interfaced with the underlying (hierarchical) filesystem: it
allows exporting to the file system as well as load/save. (SnapShot1, SnapShot2, SnapShot3)"
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