MyPDL: a web-based personal digital library

In recent years we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the volume of electronic and digital information that has been produced and as a result we feel increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of digital information that needs to be managed. This paper describes a Web-based personal digital library system, myPDL, which was designed and developed to allow individual users to create, store, organize, and retrieve their own personal digital information collections. The major distinctions between the developed tool and digital libraries in general were that major considerations were put on the functionalities of user customization and user personalization.