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