Extraction of the Flow of Activities from Shared Folders

Abstract

Shared folders are used as the simplest method for the organizational knowledge succession. So, many documents which are generated by organizational activities are accumulated in shared folders. However, shared folders have a big problem of originating in use for a long term. That is, folder structure become chaotic and using of the stored documents becomes troublesome. So, organizational knowledge which were stored by using shared folder becomes impossible to use enough. To solve such problem, I propose a new shared folder interface which offers the beginning of file discovery. The interface can be visualizing the flow of organizational activities by using extracted timestamps from files in the shared folder, and it is described in this paper.