Metadata for units of measure in social science databases

International Journal on Digital Libraries

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-175

  Greene, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Category attributes; Data derivation; Metadata; Social science databases; Units of measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344266203     PISSN: 14325012     EISSN: 14321300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007990050012     Document Type: Article

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