Children as architects of web directories: An exploratory study

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 895-907

  Bar Ilan, Judit ^a   Belous, Yifat ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

DIRECTORY STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SUBJECT CATEGORIES; WEB DIRECTORIES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 34247099801     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20566     Document Type: Article

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