The Data-Document Distinction Revisited

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-96

  Blair, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Retrieval; Document Retrieval; Information Context; Information Retrieval; Language; Meaning; Representational Indeterminacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751198266     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1120501.1120507     Document Type: Article

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