Digital libraries and minority languages

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-155

  Nichols, David M ^a   Witten, Ian H ^a   Keegan, Te Taka ^a   Bainbridge, David ^a   Dewsnip, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Digital libraries; Localization; Participatory design; Translation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAINTENANCE;

LOCALIZATION; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; TRANSLATION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 29144528049     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: 17407842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614560500351071     Document Type: Article

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