Personal interface mechanism on digital library

A digital library is very useful to retrieve and refer to appropriate information directly online, and many projects have expanded progressively. However, a digital library with an operational interface or personal/private manipulation facility is not always sufficiently investigated with a view to constructing an environment in which users can apply the retrieved/referred information to their ordinary works directly or their original requests effectively. This paper addresses personal working environments. A personal interface for a digital library is proposed, with respect to a working environment of a personal data library, constructed on existing digital libraries. The main idea is to introduce the concept of a notebook as user-specific data storage.