MyLibrary is a combination of wiki-style notes and file collection. See Concept for more details.
Features:
MyLibrary starts from MyWiki, which is a server-less wiki-like application to keep all my notes and files. But it fails for two reasons:
MyLibrary retains as a server-less wiki-like application. Notes can be created and linked together. The more important part is the file handling: There is no need to link every file in the library. In some wiki system, if pages or files are not linked, they are lost. MyLibrary shows all the notes and files in a table view.
Then the next question will be: How to find the files I need ? There are two ways:
As files, search can be done by looking for the file attributes such as file name or creation date. It is a very limited search because file names or other attributes can not well reflect the content of the files. For document, content of files can be extract for search, but for a stack of literature which discuss the same topic, searching in content is not very specific. Nevertheless, MyLibrary offers search based on file name and attribute, even content of file if it is possible.
Meta-data of each file is handy to compensate the file attributes by adding keyword with file for search. MyLibrary supports wiki-style meta-data for files in the library. Each file will come with a note as wiki page.
The problem for wiki-style meta-data is that all the data is in a text format. In general, people use auther name, published date, title of journal to search literature. These attributes can not be distinguished in wiki-style meta-data. For example, it is impossible to search the weather in the pictures you took using a digital camera. You can write "sun" in the wiki-style meta-data, but it may confusing with "sun burn" or "sun glasses" in the search.
The solution is an attributed-style meta-data for each file. Attributes can be add into MyLibrary for each file and can be searched.
To sum up, there are several ways to search in MyLibrary:
Therefore, MyLibrary offers two ways to organize files.
This icon is taken from an ancient inscription used
around 1,000 BC in China. This kind of inscription
is not the oldest, but probably is the first one in
the formal writing (the oldest one may be used for
fortune telling). These inscriptions are in-between
the modern Chinese characters which are highly abstract
from their origin and the early pictorial drawing
(pictograph). The one chosen here emphasizes the eye,
which can be extended as "look" or "search".
Most of the inscriptions can only be recognized by experts.
A Special Exhibition of Bronze Inscriptions from the Wastern Chou
Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx at hotmail dot com>