Research
Reading list
Some of these were borrowed from the thesis by O. Gorter.
Unread (so far)
- Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework
Douglas C. Engelbard.
Stanford Research Institute
1962 - Scatter/Gather: A Cluster-based Approach to Browsing Large Document Collections
Douglass R. Cutting and Jan O. Pedersen and David Karger and John W. Tukey
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval;
pages 318–329
1992 - The Harvest information discovery and access system
C. Mic Bowman and Peter B. Danzig and Darren R. Hardy and Udi Manber and Michael F. Schwartz
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems; vol 28; pages 119–125
1995 - Lifestreams: An Alternative to the Desktop Metaphor
Fertig, S., Freeman, E., and Gelernter, D.
In ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference Companion (CHI ’96);
pages 410–411
1996 - Why can’t I find my files? New methods for automating attribute assignment
Craig A. N. Soules and Gregory R. Ganger
2003
Proceedings of Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) - Faceted Metadata for Image Search and Browsing
Ping Yee, Kirsten Swearingen, Kevin Li, and Marti Hearst
the Proceedings of ACM CHI 2003
2003
Being read
- Semantic File Systems
Mark A. Sheldon David K. Gifford, Pierre Jouvelot and James W. O’Toole Jr.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles; pages 16–25
1991
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=121138 (+ "cited by")
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/26044/516603 - Towards Ontology-based Semantic File Systems
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4223046 - Semantic file Systems
Georges N'dou KOUAME, Kouassi N'GORAN
February 2005
http://www-inf.int-edu.eu/COURS/ASR/04-05/projets/systeme-fichiers-semantique/systeme-fichiers-semantique.pdf - Semantic File Systems
Object Services and Consulting Inc (Venu Vasudevan and Paul Pazandak)
1997
http://www.objs.com/survey/OFSExt.htm - Towards a Semantic-Aware File Store
Z. Xu and M. Karlsson and C. Tang and C. Karamanolis
Xu, Z., Karlsson, M., Tang, C., and Karamanolis, C.
In Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (Lihue, HI, May 2003); pages 145–150
2003
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/xu03towards.html -
Read
- Seth Nickell's blog
Seth Nickell
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog
[started: 2007-12-23, finished: 2007-12-27] - Tagsistant
Tx0
http://home.gna.org/tagfs/index.shtml
January - July 2007
[started: 2007-12-18; finished: 2007-12-19] - Filesystem sacrilege
Charles Miller
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/01/19/filesystem_sacrilege
January 2003
[started: 2007-12-18; finished: 2007-12-19] - Call for a Metadata-Enabled Filesystem
Matthias Braun
http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uxsm/MetaData-Filesystem.html
[started: 2007-12-18; finished: 2007-12-19] - Explanation of Database File Systems
AKAImBatman
http://akaimbatman.blogspot.com/2005/06/explanation-of-database-file-systems.html
June 2005
[started: 2007-12-18; finished: 2007-12-19] - Towards a Single Folder Filesystem
Daniel White
http://www.skytopia.com/project/articles/filesystem.html
[started: 2007-12-18; finished: 2007-12-19] - A Dream of an Ultimate OS
Oleg Kiselyov
http://okmij.org/ftp/DreamOS.html
A paper and talk presented at MacHack'95, The 10th Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers
[started: 2007-12-18; finished: 2007-12-19] - Windows on a database - sliced and diced by BeOS vets
Andrew Orlowski
Article in The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/03/29/windows_on_a_database_sliced/
March 2002
[started: 2007-12-18; finished: 2007-12-19] - Practical File System Design with the Be File System
Dominic Giampaolo
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
1999
ISBN 1558604979
[finished: 2007-12-14] - The Naming System Venture – Future Vision
Hans Reiser
http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html
2001 - The Death of File Systems
Jakob Nielsen
http://www.useit.com/papers/filedeath.html
1996 - When good interfaces go crufty
Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$374
2002
Useful files
A PDF rewrite of Hans Reiser's The Naming System Venture -- Future Vision, with some reformatting and rewording, and with the diagrams recreated from scratch. Note that, at the time of writing, namesys.com is down, so this is the only copy I know about (thanks to the Wayback Machine for the original HTML and images). I do have the HTML version too, but I have not made it available.
I have also rewritten When Good Interfaces Go Crufty by Matthew Thomas, as this was no longer available online (only via the Wayback Machine, again).
Note that the book Practical File System Design with the Be File System is no longer in print, but a PDF version is available from the author's site.
Useful links for bibliography
- http://lfs.irisa.fr/~pad/LFSWEB/data/thesis.bib
- http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/hons/projects/2003/Stewart.Smith/hons-project-bib.html
- Semantic File Systems
Mark A. Sheldon David K. Gifford, Pierre Jouvelot and James W. O’Toole Jr.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles; pages 16–25
1991
- Semantic File Systems