Quote: filers vs. pilers; both accessed similar amounts of information; pilers better at discarding information; does not scale

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Malone [ACM Trans Office Information Systems, 1983] documented two paper-processing strategies: filing and … With pilers … much incoming information ends up as working or … All respondents filed some information but kept other … People in the survey who reported more than … [15 of 50 participants] … [p. 160] pilers had smaller original archives than filers … They also had less preserved information after cleaning … [p. 161] Contrary to the hypothesis, pilers accessed a … [p. 162] Filers have more data, and consequently access … Filers … seemed less disposed to discard information they had … [p. 164] in moderation piling has the benefits of … addition pilers, unlike filers, encounter and discard extraneous … [p. 165] The main limitation … was that [piling] does not scale well: pilers …   Google-1   Google-2

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