Play as the way out of the newspeak-tower of babel dilemma in data modeling

Association for Information Systems - 26th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2005: Forever New Frontiers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 315-324

  Fonseca, Frederico ^a   Martin, James Emeritus ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data modeling; Hermeneutics; IS design

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN; HEIDEGGER; HERMENEUTICS; IS DESIGN; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; STANDARD MODEL;

DATA STRUCTURES; ONTOLOGY; TOWERS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547573394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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