Paper Info
Title
Buckets: smart objects for digital libraries
Abstract
Current discussion of digital libraries (DLs) is often dominated by the merits of the respective storage, search and retrieval functionality of archives, repositories, search engines, search interfaces and database systems. While these technologies are necessary for information management, the information content is more important than the systems used for its storage and retrieval. Digital information should have the same long-term survivability prospects as traditional hardcopy information and should be protected to the extent possible from evolving search engine technologies and vendor vagaries in database management systems. Information content and information retrieval systems should progress on independent paths and make limited assumptions about the status or capabilities of the other. Digital information can achieve independence from archives and DL systems through the use of buckets. Buckets are an aggregative, intelligent construct for publishing in DLs. Buckets allow the decoupling of information content from information storage and retrieval. Buckets exist within the Smart Objects and Dumb Archives model for DLs in that many of the functionalities and responsibilities traditionally associated with archives are "pushed down" (making the archives "dumber") into the buckets (making them "smarter"). Some of the responsibilities imbued to buckets are the enforcement of their terms and conditions, and maintenance and display of their contents.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1145/374308.374342
Buckets: Smart Objects for Digital Libraries
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital library,information retrieval system,smart objects,search engine technology,smart object,search engine,information management,digital libraries,retrieval functionality,digital information,information content,search interface,information storage,traditional hardcopy information,world wide web,information retrieval
World Wide Web,Information management,Survivability,Search engine,Computer science,Vendor,Publishing,Digital library,Smart objects,Digital asset management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
44
5
0001-0782
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-599-96565-7
13
2.91
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael L. Nelson11458198.74
Kurt Maly2567139.93