Infrastructuring for the long-term: Ecological information management

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 305-314

  Karasti, Helena ^a   Baker, Karen S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENTROPY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN; LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH (LTER) NETWORK;

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 12344331461     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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