Can Document-genre Metadata Improve Information Access to Large Digital Collections?

Library Trends

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 345-361

  Crowston, Kevin ^a   Kwasnik, Barbara H ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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