The aim of the Personal Reader project is to provide a framework for developing and maintaining Web Content-Reader.

The Personal Reader framework implements a service-based architecture for providing various personalization functionalities on the Semantic Web, stemming from disciplines like e.g. adaptive hypermedia systems or collaborative filtering systems. A modular framework of components / services - for providing the user interface, for mediating between user requests and available personalization services, for user modeling, for providing personal recommendations and context information, et cetera, is the core of the Personal Reader. When a user is viewing some Web Content (the Reader part of the Personal Reader) s/he receives additional, personal information on the context of this particular Web content (the Personal part of the Personal Reader).

The first prototypes developed in the Personal Reader project are developed in the area of e-Learning and for viewing publications.