Method and apparatus for searching and resource discovery in a distributed enterprise system

In a distributed enterprise computing system, personal data repositories are created by individual users who generate classifiers that index the information for those repositories. Each generated classifier also specifies a target repository into which a copy of a resource that matches that classifier is placed. Users can submit classifiers that they created to other repositories. Later, when a user adds a resource to his personal repository, it is checked against all classifiers that have been created by the user and submitted to the repository by other users. If the new resource matches any classifier, a copy of the resource is sent to the repository specified in the classifier, where the resource is archived and indexed.