A Database Approach to Global Document Spaces: Replacing Files with Shared, Connected Objects Gabrio Rivera and Moira C. Norrie   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Posters Abstract User interaction with computers is centred on the file system and most user information is organised, retrieved, managed and shared via files. While the last two decades have seen major changes in tools to visualise and navigate file systems, the fundamental concepts in terms of structure and purpose have remained unchanged: Basically, file systems are still single-user, single-location and single-structure. DiSC'03 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery