TY - JOUR AB - Considers a formal publication to represent an abstract to a larger body of work: a pvramid of scientific and technical information (STI). While this abstract may be sufficient for some applications, an in‐depth use or analysis is likely to require the supporting layers from the pyramid. Describes how “buckets” have been developed to preserve this pyramid of STI. Buckets provide an archive‐ and protoeol‐independent container construct in which all related information objects can be logically grouped together, archived, and manipulated as a single object. Furthermore, buckets are active archival objects and can communicate with each other, people, or arbitrary network services. Buckets are an implementation of the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) DL model. Discusses the motivation, design, and implication of bucket use in DLs with respect to grey literature. VL - 1 IS - 4 SN - 1466-6189 DO - 10.1108/14666180010382581 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/14666180010382581 AU - Nelson Michael L. AU - Maly Kurt PY - 2000 Y1 - 2000/01/01 TI - Preserving the pyramid of STI using buckets T2 - International Journal on Grey Literature PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 174 EP - 178 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -