Title
Leyline: provenance-based search using a graphical sketchpad
Abstract
The most effective strategy for finding files is to carefully arrange them into folders. This strategy breaks down for teams, where organizational schemes often differ between team members. It also breaks down when information is copied and reused as it becomes harder to track versions. As storage continues to grow and costs decline, the incentives to carefully archive old versions of files diminish. It is therefore important to explore new and improved search tools. The most common approach is keyword search, though recalling effective keywords can be challenging, especially as repositories grow and information flows across projects. A less common alternative is to use provenance --information about the creation, use and sharing of documents and their context, including collaborators. This paper presents a limited user study showing that provenance data is useful and desirable in search, and that an interface based on a graphical sketchpad is not only feasible, but efficient.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2391224.2391226
HCIR
Keywords
Field
DocType
provenance data,costs decline,keyword search,effective strategy,graphical sketchpad,information flow,provenance-based search,effective keyword,improved search tool,common approach,common alternative,user interface
Desktop search,World Wide Web,Incentive,Information retrieval,Computer science,Keyword search,Provenance,User interface
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
25
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Soroush Ghorashi1123.23
Carlos Jensen250543.59