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Data organization is constrained by the worst system, because of interoperability. How do you move these tags across the internet through systems that don’t un
by projektfu 5y ago
Data organization is constrained by the worst system, because of interoperability. How do you move these tags across the internet through systems that don’t understand them?
For example, the Mac had “file types” and “creators” as separate metadata since the beginning. Because type wasn’t encoded in the filename, mistakes weren’t made that accidentally changed the type and you didn’t have multiple files of the same name differing only by extension. The file always opened in its creator but power users could easily change the creator. To make a successful round trip to another system, the file would need to be given the right extension and then another program would need to reassign the file type and creator on reentry. If you didn’t do it right, people would complain that they couldn’t open the document.
In addition, experience shows that organization must happen automatically or people will just let it do whatever. At this point, most users probably have all their documents in one folder and all their downloads in another. If they weren’t indexed automatically, they’d just give up and say they don’t have the documents anymore.
Come up with an intelligent way to organize automatically and it will be a real revolution. I’d like to be able to find that photo I saw a few weeks ago when I need it. I want all the documents that are similar to the one I found that isn’t the exact version I wanted. I want all the photos taken in Brazil as well as unlabeled photos that might be Brazil. I want the EPS version I have of this jpg logo