Personal digital library architecture

The research of digital library and content management is in progress for many years, and many great results have been achieved. Besides, the Internet environment and convenience of daily lives are improved by many value-added applications from the age of dot com mania. In these years, a lot of personal digital content are produced rapidly with the development of tools and equipments. However, there is still lack of a better way to preserve, manage, search and share personal digital content. In this article, the ideas of digital library, content management, and value-added applications are merged. And, a personal digital library architecture is proposed to solve the issues of the search mechanism of traditional file systems, and work as a foundation of value-added applications for content sharing.