BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
          ID:: STAN//CS-TR-00-1633
       ENTRY:: August 16, 2000
ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science
       TITLE:: The Roma Personal Metadata Service
        TYPE:: Technical Report
      AUTHOR:: Swierk, Edward
      AUTHOR:: Kiciman, Emre
      AUTHOR:: Laviano, Vince
      AUTHOR:: Baker, Mary
        DATE:: August 2000
       PAGES:: 10
    ABSTRACT:: People now have available to them a diversity of digital
               storage devices for their personal files. These devices
               include palmtops, cell phone address books, laptops, desktop
               computers and web-based services. Unfortunately, as the
               number of personal data repositories increases, so does the
               management problem of ensuring that the most up-to-date
               version of any document is available to the user on the
               storage device he is currently using. We introduce the Roma
               personal metadata service to make it easier to locate current
               file versions and ensure their availability across different
               repositories. Roma does this through the use of a
               centralized, available and usually portable metadata store
               used by mobility-aware clients. Separating out the metadata
               store from the respositories eases deployment of the system,
               since it allows us to use existing repositories without
               change. In this paper we describe the design requirements,
               architecture and current prototype implementation of Roma.
       NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/20000816]
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