The Dewey decimal classification and the transition from physical to electronic knowledge organisation

Knowledge Organization

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 80-96

  Tinker, Amanda J ^b   Pollitt, A Steven ^a   O'Brien, Ann ^b   Braekevelt, Patrick A ^a  

^a View Based Systems Limited   (United Kingdom)

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