Quality in metadata: A schema for e-commerce

Online Information Review

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 217-237

  Manouselis, Nikos ^a   Costopoulou, Constantina ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Databases; Electronic commerce; Information control; Quality

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTEROPERABILITY; METADATA; XML;

E-COMMERCE EVALUATION METADATA (ECEM) SCHEMA; INFORMATION CONTROL; QUALITY EVALUATION;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33745282982     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520610675762     Document Type: Article

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