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https://github.com/novoid/2011-04-tagstore-formal-experiment

Collected public data and tools concerning a formal experiment conducted with tagstore
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The [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/][tagstore research project]] was the PhD project of [[https://karl-voit.at/][Karl Voit]] and his

students. It was active in 2009-2013. the research platform tagstore

will not be developed any further by us. However, if you find it

interesting, you're free to test and use [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/][the Python-based tagstore

research prototype]] since it is free software.



If you are interested in the research result, please do [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/downloads/Voit2012b.pdf][read and cite

the final PhD]] which can be found on [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/papers.shtml][the page with all the research

papers]]. The PhD thesis document summarizes most of the other papers

and puts them into context.



On Github, you can find multiple repositories such as the [[https://github.com/novoid/tagstore][tagstore

source code]], and [[https://github.com/novoid/2011-01-tagstore-formal-experiment][the data for the formal experiment one]] and [[https://github.com/novoid/2011-04-tagstore-formal-experiment][for

another formal experiment]].



Karl Voit took the experience with this project and developed

[[https://karl-voit.at/managing-digital-photographs][workflows and a series of open source tools]] for [[https://karl-voit.at/tags/pim/][Personal Information

Management]] for managing local files via tags. You may want to [[https://karl-voit.at/how-to-use-public-voit][follow

his blog posts]] about [[https://karl-voit.at/tags/pim/][PIM]].



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* Formal Experiment



In January 2011, a formal experiment was conducted which aimed to

clear some questions in the field of personal information management

(PIM), information re-finding, and information architecture. You can

find [[https://github.com/novoid/2011-01-tagstore-formal-experiment][the January experiment on github]] too. In April 2011 we conducted

another experiment with slightly different focus. This repository

holds relevant data of this second experiment in April 2011.



For the purpose of the experiments, the testing framework [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/][tagstore]] was

used to *compare* storing files (images, graphics and documents)

within the *folder hierarchy* using Microsoft Windows Explorer *and

tagstore*.



The tagstore framework supports file management by applying

tags. Those tags are being used to (automatically) generate *navigation

hierarchies*, called TagTrees.



This repository contains anonymous data from the experiment in order

to *check, extend, or re-evaluate the experiment*.



This is Open Data.



This is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_research][Open Science]].



* Other Experiment Repositories



The January-experiment:

https://github.com/novoid/2011-01-tagstore-formal-experiment 



The April experiment has less technical logs, a two week pause between

filing and re-finding, more test persons, more test items, more

detailed questionnaires.



* Language



The experiment was conducted by a group of Karl Voit ([[http://www.TUGraz.az][Graz University

of Technology]]) and took place in [[http://maps.google.com/maps?f%3Dq&source%3Ds_q&hl%3Den&geocode%3D&q%3DInffeldgasse%2B16b,%2Bgraz,%2Baustria&aq%3D&sll%3D47.070714,15.439504&sspn%3D0.143575,0.308647&vpsrc%3D0&ie%3DUTF8&hq%3D&hnear%3DInffeldgasse%2B16b,%2BJakomini%2B8010%2BGraz,%2BSteiermark,%2BAustria&t%3Dh&z%3D16&iwloc%3DA][Graz, Austria]]. Therefore, the

language of the test persons was *German*. All data which test persons

were confronted with is in German. Derived data and supplementary

things such as evaluation scripts are in *English* though.



* White Papers



Several related white papers are linked [[https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/en/papers.shtml][on the tagstore homepage]].



* License



https://github.com/novoid/2011-04-tagstore-formal-experiment is

licensed under a [[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/][Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License]].



* What is missing



In near future, all relevant experiment data should be online. If

something is not online (like for example the TP videos), a README.org

explains further things or links to an alternative hosting place.



Currently, the detailed results are being extracted. The raw results

are somewhat irritating due to several things like bugs in

software. 



Here is the list of things which will be published here in future:



** Transcripts



We developed a detailed transcript language and are writing down each

event very carefully: counting mouse clicks, writing down each spoken

word, taking notes on each relevant GUI element interaction. 



This took us very long.



The definition of the transcript language will be published here

too.



The raw transcript files will be published here soon.



** Transcript processing scripts



Python-parser are reading the transcript files and generate a ASCII

and CSV summary per transcript file. Those parsers will be published

too.



** Raw and Summarized Results



The summarized CSV files (all TPs) as well as Spreadsheets containing

the derived diagrams will be published.



** Formal Experiment Report



A report containing the most important results will be published here.