Out of the mouths of middle school children: I. Developing user-defined controlled vocabularies for subject access in a digital library

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1512-1524

  Abbas, June ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SEEKING PROCESS; RETRIEVAL OBSTACLES; SEARCH STRATEGIES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; TOOLS;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

EID: 30544432155     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20245     Document Type: Article

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