Step-Locked Data Transformation in Personal Filing Systems

Abstract

In comparison with the internal representation of a personal filing systems, which is operational more efficient, the filing organization as presented to the users has its simplicity because it maintains only a single type of link. Therefore, the implementation of the system can have two models which represent the folder organization at two different levels: the user interface level (or the external representation using U-ORG), and the system execution level (or the internal representation using I-ORG). Interoperabilities between the two models needs to be well-coordinated and kept transparent to the user while the system optimizes its performance by utilizing the architectural strength from both models. In this paper, we explore the co-existence issues between the U-ORG and the I-ORG folder organization and present a preliminary transformation process which transforms the given U-ORG into an I-ORG representation when the user folder organization is constructed.