PeCMan paper : 'The Personal Internet'

PeCMan is a content access gateway, aggregator, indexing- and sharing tool for all your personally relevant content on the Internet. With personal relevant content we refer to all content that you have created, that was explicitly shared with you by others or that you have found on the Internet and want to keep. PeCMan aggregates access to multiple network-based storage systems, services or other "objects" by their reference. Examples of such objects are photographs, music, email, text documents, or any addressable object on the Internet. The aggregated storage acts as a virtual read-write drive in which PeCMan addresses individual objects by reference, typically encoded in URLs. To address content in Web applications such as Google Docs , Flickr and YouTube, the URL is based on the corresponding provided API, while content on one's home machine's disk is addressed via a locally installed software driver supporting WebDaV. This paper describes the motivation, design and implementation prototype of PeCMan. Category: Service Infrastructure