Systems for metadata: Documenting scientific databases

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 1993, Pages 460-469

  David, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; INFORMATION SERVICES; SURVEYS;

BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; RELATIONAL CALCULUS; RELATIONAL DATABASE; REPEATED MEASURES; REPORTING SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC DATABASE; SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS; UNIT OF ANALYSIS;

METADATA;

EID: 0345840473     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.1993.284344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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