PowerBookmarks: a system for personalizable Web information organization, sharing, and management

We extend the notion of bookmark management by introducing the functionalit ies of hypermedia databases. Power-Bookmarks is a Web information organizat ion, sharing, and management tool, which parses metadata from bookmarked UR Ls and uses it to index and classify the URLs. PowerBookmarks supports adva nced query, classification, and navigation functionalities on collections o f bookmarks. PowerBookmarks monitors and utilizes users' access patterns to provide many useful personalized services, such as automated URL bookmarki ng, document refreshing, and bookmark expiration. It also allows users to s pecify their preference in bookmark management, such as ranking schemes and classification tree structures. Subscription services for new or updated d ocuments of users' interests an also supported. (C) 1999 Published by Elsev ier Science B.V. All rights reserved.