Trends and Issues in Establishing Interoperability Among Knowledge Organization Systems

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 377-395

  Zeng, Marcia Lei ^a   Chan, Lois Mai ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS (KOS); SEMANTIC NETWORKS;

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1542365356     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10387     Document Type: Article

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