Organizing and managing personal electronic files: A mechanical engineer's perspective

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Hicks, B J ^a,c   Dong, A ^b   Palmer, R ^a,c   McAlpine, H C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directory and file naming conventions; Engineers; File sharing and file recognition and recall; Information management

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESSES; COMPUTER FILES; CURRENT PRACTICES; DATA STORAGE; DIRECTORY AND FILE NAMING CONVENTIONS; ELECTRONIC FILES; ENGINEERING ORGANIZATIONS.; ENGINEERS; FILE SHARING AND FILE RECOGNITION AND RECALL; KNOWLEDGE REUSE; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED; MECHANICAL ENGINEERS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONAL INFORMATION STORES; WIDESPREAD USE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING; HEALTH RISKS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 53849113702     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1402256.1402262     Document Type: Article

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