A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Modern database systems
The object data standard: ODMG 3.0
The object data standard: ODMG 3.0
An Object-Oriented Pattern Matching Language
Proceedings of the First JSSST International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software
Stuff I've seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Richer File System Metadata Using Links and Attributes
MSST '05 Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE / 13th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies
Analyzing workflows implied by instance-dependent access rules
Proceedings of the twenty-fifth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Metadata manipulation interface design
AUIC '13 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian User Interface Conference - Volume 139
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Modern computer systems are based on the traditional hierarchical file system model, but typically contain large numbers of files with complex interrelationships. This traditional model is not capable of meeting the needs of current computer system users, who need to be able to store and retrieve files based on flexible criteria. A metadata file system can associate an extensive and rich set of data with a file, thus enabling more effective file organisation and retrieval than traditional file systems. In this paper we review a wide range of existing proposals to add metadata to files and make that metadata available for searching. We then propose a hierarchy of definitions for metadata file systems based on the reviewed prototypes. We introduce a data model for a database-oriented pure mdfss complete with operations and semantics. The model supports user-initiated instance and schema updates and file searches based on structured queries. We also explore the design space of a set of user interface operations intended to implement the pure model and facilitate the capturing of rich metadata. We argue that without such a simple method for users to create rich metadata, progress in this field will remain limited.