Toward an alternative notion of information systems ontologies: Information engineering as a hermeneutic enterprise

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 46-57

  Fonseca, Frederico T ^a   Martin, James E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERMENEUTIC APPROACHES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS ONTOLOGIES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 11144273258     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20099     Document Type: Article

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