Further Reading

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web [MR06] by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld provides some insight into hierarchical structures. Margo Seltzer and Nicholas Murphy’s paper “Hierarchical File Systems are Dead” is also worth reading.[112]

William Jones, a research associate professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, has an interesting presentation about structuring personal information.[113]

Footnotes

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Shuttleworth is the former CEO of Canonical Ltd., creator of the Ubuntu family of Linux distribution. Ubuntu is an operating system that is based on the Linux kernel, with a strong focus on usability.

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Read his essay at http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/223.

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