Whether all the above classes, and possibly more, are required, or whether the number may be reduced to two or three, must depend entirely on the size and nature of the business; but too much emphasis cannot be laid on the necessity for deciding this question at the very outset, setting forth the decision in writing and clearly defining the limits of each class. (p. 17)
AKA Johnny Decimal, the Workbook.
Shall we rename this thread to the dull men’s club?
How could rescuing decimal indexing from Melvil Dewey’s terrible behavior be dull?
This one can also be found on IA: Progressive indexing and filing : Various : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A filing system: An Elaborate Climbing-Desk Filing System from the 1930s - Core77
(a) Like I said, how could this topic be dull?
(b) Why do I feel like this is a peek inside my head?
WHOA! We’ve found some pretty cool images as we search for background material, but I’ve never seen this one.
aaaaah! That is incredible. I want one.
Imagine, though, if a card ended up in the wrong drawer …
Simply put an RFID tag on each index card. Problem solved.
actually, in all seriousness, I want that, but for the opposite reason. I dream of every digital file having a physical representation that I can order with my hands, on a shelf. Not every file, of course, but the entrypoint to each fileset. So when I take a sheet of paper off the shelf and lay it on my desk, an RFID sensor (or overhead camera) identifies it and loads the relevant files on my monitor. Just think, never navigate directory structures with keyboard and mouse ever again. I’d gladly take a motorized librarian’s ladder over a keyboard and mouse.
This is a really interesting idea … use the JD ID as this anchor. Have it on the paper thing, scan it, computer reconfigures to present that JDex entry and file system and whatever else you last had open.
That’d be really cool.
So for labeling the documents, a label printer and QR code generator. This is the easy bit. Maybe pasting the label on the back of each document?
For reading the label a small Raspberry Pi with its camera? If we want it to be cutesy, maybe even it’s all integrated into some kind of desk paper-clipping mechanism? So the document gets anchored to the reading space on the desk and then the QR code is read at the same time?
Finally, the medium difficulty bit, some kind of computer orchestration layer that takes the RPI output and actually sets up the workspace?
@johnnydecimal @clappingcactus My reply got long and off-topic so I put it here: 20-29 Community/Physical and Digital Work Environments.
That sounds like an office version of the idea about stores that get rid of checkout. You scan your mobile payment (card, phone) on your way in and then the store tracks RFIDs on whatever you walk out with. As far as I know, it’s never actually worked - I think Amazon’s physical stores have a version of it that requires human intervention, but I could be remembering that wrong - but it’s an intriguing idea, linking the physical and digital like that.
interesting comparison. There definitely are technical hurdles to implementation. But, a bit of friction is a feature here, because the whole point is to slow data manipulation down to the speed of cognition.
