User interface for a digital library to support construction of a “virtual personal library”

Describes the development of a prototype user interface to support the construction of “virtual personal libraries” from digital libraries. The virtual personal library provides broad support for user-information activities such as browsing, editing, storing and annotating. We propose the use of a book metaphor interface that represents virtual books and bookshelves on computer displays. Users can browse, edit and store information freely by using this interface. We also propose a pointer-storing method based on the concept of transclusion to legally validate the use of information resources. An extended HTML is used to realize the pointer-storing method on the World Wide Web