Alvarez-Cavazos, Francisco2005-07-252005-07-252005-07-20https://hdl.handle.net/123456789/20Final doctoral research paper presented at JCDL 2005 Inaugural Doctoral Consortium, 7 June 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA.This research proposes personal digital libraries by investigating design elements that should be considered in the creation of a distributed digital object store for a personal library system. Particular emphasis is placed in the storage scalability and communication demands imposed by personal libraries409247 bytesapplication/pdfengThis item is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.personal digital librariespersonal library challengesdigital object storesstorage scalabilitycommunication servicespersonal library content selectionPresentation