Developing a scaleable information architecture for an enterprise-wide consolidated information management platform

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-96

  Van Der Walt, P W ^a   Du Toit, A S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Information management; Information media; Information strategy

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE; INFORMATION MEDIA; INFORMATION STRATEGY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33846441308     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530710725223     Document Type: Article

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