Personal Digital Libraries
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چکیده
This chapter presents the services and functionality that a personal digital library (PDL) system should provide. The chapter includes a reference architecture for supporting the characteristics and functionality of the personal digital library. In particular, a currently available project called PDLib is used as an example of this type of system. The authors address some of the particular problems that personal libraries impose with respect to the overall administration of personal collections of digital documents and how personal libraries may become a commodity and a way of social interaction. The chapter objective is to increase the research interests on personalized digital libraries and their usability in our daily live. InTRoduCTIon As digital and information technology advances, the effects of the adoption of such advances to our daily life are more evident. Today we, as users of information technology goods, produce a large amount of digital documents such as e-mail messages, office paperwork, personal documents, school homework, and even still-images, audio, and video. These myriad of digital documents usually reside in our personal computers or workstations, and some of them are placed on public places (i.e., our personal Web page and/or a Web sharing repository) where others can access our digital content. We are not only producers, but also consumers of digital documents; more and more frequently we get our daily news from the Web or via an e-mail service subscription. Also, while doing research in our area of interest, we consult the digital content available through the digital library services that our local library provides. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-879-6.ch005
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