Investigating and modeling metadata use to support information architecture development in the statistical knowledge network

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1267-1284

  Hert, Carol A ^a   Denn, Sheila O ^b   Gillman, Daniel W ^c   Oh, Jung Sun ^d   Pattuelli, Maria Cristina ^d   Hernández, Naybell ^e  

^a SchemaLogic Inc   (United States)

^b SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE DEVELOPMENT; METADATA AVAILABILITY; STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

METADATA;

EID: 34547297312     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20613     Document Type: Article

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