Resumen
The article introduces "buckets," smart objects for a digital library. It is an aggregative, intelligent, object-oriented constructs that contain data, metadata and the methods for accessing both. Some of the bucket's responsibilities include storing, tracking, and enforcing its terms and conditions, maintenance, display and dissemination of its contents and maintaining its event logs. Buckets must be self-sufficient and perform their required tasks without digital library support have a bunker mentality, even if other digital library services degenerate, buckets continue to function as long as HTTP and Pearl Internet protocol exist. Creation and management-oriented methods are to be accessed by bucket tools. There are projects with similar aggregation goals as buckets from the digital library community. Future plans include significant utilization of bucket mobility and intelligence, inducing buckets actively involved in their long-term survivability and interacting with digital library services to report their observed usage patterns.