Smart Objects, Dumb Archives
Kurt J. Maly, Michael L. Nelson, Mohammad Zubair · D-Lib Magazine · 1999
Discusses digital libraries, interoperability, and interfaces to access them, and proposes one universal protocol for communication for simple archives based on the hypertext transfer protocol (http). Describes the creation of a special class of digital objects called buckets, archives based on a NASA collection, and a set of digital library services. (Author/LRW)