Computer users spend time every day interacting with digital files and folders, including
downloading, moving, naming, navigating to, searching for, sharing, and deleting them …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how individuals' personal information
organization reflects their social environments in order to understand social aspects of …

This conceptual article considers data used in the humanities and the human sciences,
which are fundamentally different from data in other disciplines, such as the sciences or …

The advent of cloud platforms and mobile devices has complicated personal data
management and decisions about what data to keep or discard. To explore how to help …

Purpose To take full advantage of the unprecedented availability of information on networks
and digital systems, professionals need to be comfortable finding information relevant to the …

Introduction. This paper considers how we can better manage personal records in the home
by addressing questions such as how and why personal records are retained in an …

Users face many challenges in keeping their personal file collections organized. While
current file-management interfaces help users retrieve files in disorganized repositories …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate and model the process of organizing
personal information in digital form in the context of everyday life. Design/methodology …

Prior work suggests that users conceptualize the organization of personal collections of
digital files through the lens of similarity. However, it is unclear to what degree similar files …

The use of cloud storage, which provides ubiquitous and simultaneous access to files, is
prevalent among researchers for their collaborative projects. This study comprehensively …