Design of repositories of conceptual schemas for large-scale e-government projects

Electronic Government

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 306-328

  Batini, Carlo ^a   Grosso, Riccardo ^b   Longobardi, Guglielmo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CSI Piemonte   (Italy)

^c CNIPA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Conceptual schema; Database; Electronic government (e government); Information management; Integration; Methodology; Public Administration (PA); Repository

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744775692     PISSN: 17407494     EISSN: 17407508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EG.2006.009601     Document Type: Article

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