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Documents do often not exist in isolation but are implicitly or explicitly linked to parts of other documents. However, due to a multitude of proprietary document formats with rather simple link models, today's possibilities for creating hyper-links between snippets of information in different document formats are limited. In previous work, we have...
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... using the API, we were able to develop a rich add-in that allows users to create and navigate advanced hyperlinks. As illustrated in Figure 7, the add-in provides a user interface on the right-hand side of a visualised document. It enables users to connect to the link service via a TCP socket connection as well as to highlight or disable the highlighting of selectors. ...
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... In addition, the RSL hypermedia metamodel offers features such as user rights management, content distribution, content adaptation and the support for structural links which can be used to compose a new entity (e.g. a document) out of existing entities. Over the last decade, the RSL hypermedia metamodel has proven its flexibility, generality and extensibility, and served as a basis for the implementation of a variety of hypermedia and cross-media solutions [8,10,11]. ...
With the transformation of computing from personal computers to the Internet, document formats have also seen some changes over the years. Future document formats are likely going to adapt to the emerging needs of ubiquitous computing, where information processing is embedded in everyday activities and objects. While most existing document formats have originally been a digital emulation of paper documents, over the years they have been enriched with additional digital features. These features were mainly incorporated to take advantage of the new functionality offered by the devices on which the documents are accessed. With the advent of ubiquitous computing, document formats seem to be facing the next evolutionary step. They will have to adapt to novel mobile devices, innovative interaction modalities, the distribution over multiple devices as well as heterogeneous input sources. This adaptation to the age of ubiquitous computing asks for several new document features. We outline a roadmap towards future fluid document representations for ubiquitous information environments. Based on the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel - a general hypermedia metamodel supporting distribution, user rights management and content adaptation - we developed a metamodel for fluid document formats and the corresponding online text editor for fluid documents.
... In addition to aiding users in understanding shared files, increased file metadata has been used to try to improve the usefulness of files and their retrieval. So far, this has been done manually, by allowing users to link their files to Web resources (Tayeh, Ebrahimi, & Signer, 2018) and assign annotations and images to their folders (W. Jones, Hou, Sethanandha, Bi, & Gemmell, 2010;W. ...
Computer users spend time every day interacting with digital files and folders, including downloading, moving, naming, navigating to, searching for, sharing, and deleting them. Such file management has been the focus of many studies across various fields, but has not been explicitly acknowledged nor made the focus of dedicated review. In this article we present the first dedicated review of this topic and its research, synthesizing more than 230 publications from various research domains to establish what is known and what remains to be investigated, particularly by examining the common motivations, methods, and findings evinced by the previously furcate body of work. We find three typical research motivations in the literature reviewed: understanding how and why users store, organize, retrieve, and share files and folders, understanding factors that determine their behavior, and attempting to improve the user experience through novel interfaces and information services. Relevant conceptual frameworks and approaches to designing and testing systems are described, and open research challenges and the significance for other research areas are discussed. We conclude that file management is a ubiquitous, challenging, and relatively unsupported activity that invites and has received attention from several disciplines and has broad importance for topics across information science.
... Cross-Media Link Browser. The cross-media link browser [21] illustrates the flexibility of the RSL-based link service in terms of the integration of new document formats as well as third-party document viewers. It further highlights the possibility of creating advanced hyperlinks across heterogeneous document formats and viewers that cannot easily be realised with existing linking solutions or the link models of existing document formats. ...
Over the last few decades, we have seen massive improvements in computing power, but nevertheless we still rely on digital documents and file systems that were originally created by mimicking the characteristics of physical storage media with all its limitations. This is quite surprising given that even before the existence of the computer, Information Science visionaries such as Vannevar Bush described more powerful information management solutions. We therefore aim to improve the way information is managed in modern desktop environments by embedding a hypermedia engine offering rich hypermedia and cross-media concepts at the level of an operating system. We discuss the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel as a candidate for realising such a general hypermedia engine and highlight its flexibility based on a number of domain-specific applications that have been developed over the last two decades. The underlying content repository will no longer rely on monolithic files, but rather contain a user's data in the form of content fragments, such as snippets of text or images, which are structurally linked to form the corresponding documents, and can be reused in other documents or even shared across computers. By increasing the scope to a system-wide hypermedia engine, we have to deal with fundamental challenges related to granularity, interoperability or context resolving. We strongly believe that computing technology has evolved enough to revisit and address these challenges, laying the foundation for a wide range of innovative use cases for efficiently managing cross-media content in modern desktop environments.
... In addition, our solution exploits explicit links (i.e. bidirectional hyperlinks) that are defined between documents based on an existing link service [12][13][14]. ...
... In contrast to some previous research that only used document metadata to discover the implicit links between documents [10], we are employing both a document's content and metadata in order to discover implicit links based on a clustering algorithm. Moreover, we make use of explicit document links that have been created by users of the crossdocument link service [12][13][14]. It is worth mentioning that we also exploited a document's content and metadata to support important features such as synonym-based search and word stems. ...
With the rapid increase of digital information we are dealing with in our daily work, we face significant document retrieval and discovery challenges. We present a novel document retrieval and discovery framework that addresses some of the limitations of existing solutions. An innovative aspect of our solution is the combination of implicit and explicit links between documents in the retrieval as well as in the visualisation process, in order to improve document retrieval and discovery. Our framework exploits implicit relationships between documents--defined by the similarity of their content as well as their metadata--and explicit links (hyperlinks) defined between documents based on a third-party link service. Further, the software framework can be extended with arbitrary third-party visualisations. Last but not least, our search query interface offers advanced features not available in most existing document retrieval systems.
... In addition, the RSL hypermedia metamodel offers features such as user rights management, content distribution, content adaptation and the support for structural links which can be used to compose a new entity (e.g. a document) out of existing entities. Over the last decade, the RSL hypermedia metamodel has proven its flexibility, generality and extensibility, and served as a basis for the implementation of a variety of hypermedia and cross-media solutions [8,10,11]. ...
With the transformation of computing from personal computers to the Internet, document formats have also seen some changes over the years. Future document formats are likely going to adapt to the emerging needs of ubiquitous computing, where information processing is embedded in everyday activities and objects. While most existing document formats have originally been a digital emulation of paper documents, over the years they have been enriched with additional digital features. These features were mainly incorporated to take advantage of the new functionality offered by the devices on which the documents are accessed. With the advent of ubiquitous computing, document formats seem to be facing the next evolutionary step. They will have to adapt to novel mobile devices, innovative interaction modalities, the distribution over multiple devices as well as heterogeneous input sources. This adaptation to the age of ubiquitous computing asks for several new document features. We outline a roadmap towards future fluid document representations for ubiquitous information environments. Based on the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel—a general hypermedia metamodel supporting distribution, user rights management and content adaptation—we developed a metamodel for fluid document formats and the corresponding online text editor for fluid documents.
Computer users spend time every day interacting with digital files and folders, including downloading, moving, naming, navigating to, searching for, sharing, and deleting them. Such file management has been the focus of many studies across various fields, but has not been explicitly acknowledged nor made the focus of dedicated review. In this article we present the first dedicated review of this topic and its research, synthesizing more than 230 publications from various research domains to establish what is known and what remains to be investigated, particularly by examining the common motivations, methods, and findings evinced by the previously furcate body of work. We find three typical research motivations in the literature reviewed: understanding how and why users store, organize, retrieve, and share files and folders, understanding factors that determine their behavior, and attempting to improve the user experience through novel interfaces and information services. Relevant conceptual frameworks and approaches to designing and testing systems are described, and open research challenges and the significance for other research areas are discussed. We conclude that file management is a ubiquitous, challenging, and relatively unsupported activity that invites and has received attention from several disciplines and has broad importance for topics across information science.
