Order from chaos: The poetics and pragmatics of scientific recordkeeping

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1457-1466

  Shankar, Kalpana ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE; DIGITAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES; ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS; RECORD KEEPING;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; STANDARDIZATION;

RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547580079     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20625     Document Type: Article

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