Metadata for digital collections of e-government resources

Electronic Library

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 176-192

  Tambouris, Efthimios ^a   Manouselis, Nikos ^b   Costopoulou, Constantina ^b  

^a INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collections management; Communication technologies; Databases; Information management

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PORTALS; SORTING;

DIGITAL COLLECTION; E-GOVERNMENR RESOURCES; ELECTRONIC CATEGORIZATION;

METADATA;

EID: 34247146816     PISSN: 02640473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02640470710741313     Document Type: Article

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