The discourse of data: Exploring data-related vocabularies in geographic information systems description

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-56

  Cole, Fletcher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data; data management; Geographic information systems; GIS; Pragmatics of language; Professional discourse; Representational practice; Terminology use

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TERMINOLOGY;

DATA; DATA MANAGEMENT; PRAGMATICS OF LANGUAGE; PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE; REPRESENTATIONAL PRACTICES; TERMINOLOGY USES;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

EID: 12344283071     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551505049258     Document Type: Review

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