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Supporting Research Collaboration through Bi-Level File Synchronization

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2012

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Proceedings of the 2012 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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Association for Computing Machinery

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In this paper, we describe the design and use of Cimetric, a file synchronization application that supports scholarly collaboration. The system design incorporates results of earlier studies that suggest replicating content on a user's personal devices may have different characteristics than replicating content to share it with collaborators. To realize this distinction, Cimetric performs bi-level synchronization: it synchronizes local copies of a versioned repository among collaborators' computers, while it separately synchronizes private working files between each user's personal devices. Through a year's worth of in-house use of Cimetric in a variety of configurations, we were able to investigate key file synchronization issues, including the role of cloud storage given the ability to sync between peers; the strengths and weaknesses of a bi-level design; and which aspects of the synchronization process to reveal to users.

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Marshall, Catherine C.; Wobber, Ted; Ramasubramanian, Venugopalan; Terry, Douglas B. (2012): Supporting Research Collaboration through Bi-Level File Synchronization. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/2389176.2389202. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 165–174. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

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scholarly collaboration, file synchronization, cloud storage

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10.1145/2389176.2389202

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https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4930

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Number of citations to item: 7

  • John C. Tang, Jed R. Brubaker, Catherine C. Marshall (2013): What Do You See in the Cloud? Understanding the Cloud-Based User Experience through Practices, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40480-1_47
  • Siân E. Lindley, Gavin Smyth, Robert Corish, Anastasia Loukianov, Michael Golembewski, Ewa A. Luger, Abigail Sellen (2018): Exploring New Metaphors for a Networked World through the File Biography, In: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, doi:10.1145/3173574.3173692
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  • Jesse David Dinneen, Charles‐Antoine Julien (2019): The ubiquitous digital file: A review of file management research, In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 1(71), doi:10.1002/asi.24222
  • Kyong Eun Oh (2022): <scp>Cross‐Analysis</scp> of Researchers' Different Shared File Management Activities in Cloud Storage, In: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 1(59), doi:10.1002/pra2.722
  • Gaia Mosconi, Qinyu Li, Dave Randall, Helena Karasti, Peter Tolmie, Jana Barutzky, Matthias Korn, Volkmar Pipek (2019): Three Gaps in Opening Science, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 3-4(28), doi:10.1007/s10606-019-09354-z
  • Robert Capra, Emily Vardell, Kathy Brennan (2014): File synchronization and sharing: User practices and challenges, In: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 1(51), doi:10.1002/meet.2014.14505101059
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